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Tag: "cancer" at medical news

New scalpel probes into cancer

...rt scalpel which is able to detect the presence of cancer cells beneath layers skin, blood and muscle have ...cut into the glass surface of the device. Because cancer cells contain more protein than normal cells, their greater density changes (refracts) the speed of ...

Hormone replacement Therapy a headache

...with menopause, cause a slightly increased risk of cancer of the breast and endometrium, the lining of the womb. Dr Elisabeth Weiderpass, of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, says that low dosages does not harm but should not be used continuously. Once women stopped using the drug the increased risk ...

Better prostate cancer detection

...land. They did this on a group of 74 men and found cancer in 40 of them. In ten, the cancer was found only in one or more of the six inner areas - and would have been missed if the conventiona...

Protective effects of tomatoes in prostate cancer

... nutrients may be effective in preventing prostate cancer and treating the disease in its earliest stages.//...ve a cause-and-effect between lycopene and reduced cancer risk. In their study , the researchers followed 30 men with localized prostate cancer and administ...

Starch fights cancer

...in Africa, Japan and China have low rates of bowel cancer even though they eat less fibre than Westerners.// The researchers have discovered that resistant starch which, as its name suggests cannot be digested, passes into the colon where it releases substances that protect against cancer. Resistant sta...

Eye Saver

Patients suffering from a certain form of cancer of the eye need not have to remove their dieased e...rs. The study looked at 1,317 patients with cancer of the choroid,the thin layer of vessels beneath the retina, which contains most of the eye's melano...

Tea Tales

...nzymes essential for tumour growth and de-activate cancer promoters. A cup of tea supplies around 200 gms of flavanoids. The antiioxidant potency in a cup of tea is 400 per cent greater than a cup of orange juice while providing a far smaller intake of sugar and calories. Black tea has a biochemi...

Early detection of prostate cancer

...chemical currently used as a ‘marker’ for prostate cancer progression), and two other blood proteins. It was found that men with prostate cancer who could not be detected by the PSA test could potentially be picked up by measuring levels of the ...

Male infertility in relation to cancer

...elationship between increasing rates of testicular cancer and decreasing sperm quality, have concluded men w...over 1.5 times more// likely to develop testicular cancer than other men. Though there are no specific feature was linked to increased risk of testicular ca...

Dark skin protects

... the extra melanin in darker skin protects against cancer and sunburn from ultraviolet radiation. But, New Scientist reports, some parts of the body which are hardly ever exposed to sunlight, such as genitalia, throats and nasal passages, are packed with melanin cells.In mammals, melanin is contained inside...

Increase in tobacco deaths

...igarettes smoked in someone's thirties may cause a cancer to develop quarter of a century later. Since two thirds of all young men in China smoke, and half of them will die from their habit, this means that a third of the male population will be killed by tobacco. This shcok is suffiecient to make people ...

Ovarian cancer in relationship with Hormone therapy

...,236 who were former users. A total of 944 ovarian cancer deaths were recorded in the 14 year study until De...rs prior to enrolment. Annual age-adjusted ovarian cancer death rates per 100,000 women were 64.4 for baseline users with 10 or more years of use, 38.3 for fo...

Eat Vitamin C and stay young

...a day,Levine said. `That's where the benefit is in cancer prevention, increasing life span and perhaps in preventing heart disease.// Vitamin C is an anti-oxidant and has been touted as a way to fight off the common cold and cancer. In the study of healthy young women, however, the vitamin did not change ...

Need for Colon cancer screening

Colon cancer should be screened periodically once in 5 years in...rs Medical Centre in the US, death rate from colon cancer has been decreased due to the routine screening.// They investigated over 3,000 apparently healthy ...

Obesity a risk for pancreatic cancer

... to live for more than five years after pancreatic cancer has been diagnosed and little has been known about...obese have a 72 per cent higher risk of pancreatic cancer compared to those who are of normal weight or slightly underweight.This may be because excess weight...

Novartis files application with FDA for Zometa

...one complications can be extremely debilitating to cancer patients, and seriously impact their day to day ac...will help make a marked difference in the lives of cancer patients and their families" said David Epstein, President, Novartis Oncology. Three trials have ...

Estrogen lowers cancer risk

... had about a 20 percent lower chance of developing cancer if they used oral contraceptives. This new researc...t estrogen in the pill could protect against bowel cancer and our research has gone some way to confirm this In the future, it may be possible //to develop ne...

Genetic influence in menopause

... in 118 families already participating in a breast cancer screening project.// They also collected data from twin sisters. They found that the age of reaching menopause is 85-87 per cent down to genetic factors in non-twins, and 70 to 71 per cent genetic in twins. Researchers collected DNA from the sister...

Relieve hot flashes

... women, but concerns remain over its use in breast cancer survivors because the hormone may stimulate breast cancer growth.// The herb black cohosh seems to alleviate hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause, a...

Flaxseed fights cancer risk

...emale hormone levels and may thereby reduce breast cancer risk.The flax plant has been used for thousands of...// High levels of oestrogen are linked to breast cancer and lignans may lower levels by blocking oestrogen synthesis. Researchers at the University of Minne...

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