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Breast cancer evidence

...three years were 45% more likely to develop breast cancer than those who did not work at night. And the risk...based on the work history of 822 women with breast cancer and 671 without. Scott Davis, an epidemiologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Sea...

Smallpox Vaccine May Help Fight Cervical Cancer

...oma virus (HPV) is associated with 95% of cervical cancer cases, but not everyone with the virus develops the cancer. Cervical cancer affects about 465,000 women worldwide each year and causes 300,000 deaths. If it is diagnosed and tr...

FDA approves surgical gel

...en with abdominal or pelvic infection, or who have cancer or are pregnant. The manufacturers would begin selling Intergel in February and cost about $200....

A Chinese herb kills cancer cells

...in which is basically used to treat malaria, kills cancer cells too using a similar mechanism. The drug arte...exas wondered if the same approach would work with cancer cells. For it's known that cancer cells often have much higher iron concentrations that healthy cell...

How do patients benefit of clinical trials

Many patients undergoing trials of new cancer treatments do not realise that future patients are...an themselves.There can be no progress in treating cancer - or any other disease - unless there are clinical trials. Henceforth what do patients expect from a...

Garlic fights malaria and cancer

... to be similar to the mechanism they use to fight cancer cells.Researcher from the University of Toronto re... They also tested the effect of these compounds on cancer cells. While not all of the disulphides were effective against Plasmodium falciparum, the malaria pa...

Cut down on fries

...al, cancer.The best way to reduce the incidence of cancer is to begin the day with a light breakfast such as...more than twice the risk of developing oesophageal cancer as those who began the day with a light breakfast. But women who skipped breakfast altogether had ...

Early delivery can prevent cancer

...About 10% of women in the West will develop breast cancer at some stage of their lives. Epidemiological evid...pregnancy in early life and a lower risk of breast cancer - although the reason why was not clear. Experiments in animals show that pregnancy hormones influ...

A new treatment for liver cancer

...the liver and deliver the radiation there, killing cancer cells. The treatment has been found to work best w...wer than 10 per cent are suitable for conventional cancer surgery because of the nature of their tumours, the TheraSphere offers them the first real hope of s...

Too much fibre can aggrevate cancer

...problem. Many doctors believe that most colorectal cancer develop out of polyps, or adenomas, which grow on ... protective effect. Dr Tim Key, expert on diet and cancer with Imperial Cancer Research Fund, said: "Colorectal adenomas are growths in the large intestine wh...

Alcohol within the body

...f the liver, which in turn increases the risk that cancer will develop in the organ.The damage caused to the liver is identical to that associated with heavy alcohol abuse.// However, in this case the problem was not alcholism, but the production of alcohol by an internal distillery within the body itself. ...

Support therapy helps breast cancer patients

Group therapy can help breast cancer patients feel better, but it won't help them live ...vements in both treatment and social acceptance of cancer may explain the difference between his research and the earlier studies. The breast cancer death r...

Letrozole Beats Tamoxifen in Breast Cancer Therapy

...' Femara (letrozole), one of a new class of breast cancer drugs, worked better than standard therapy with tamoxifen in treating breast cancer in women// with advanced disease. Femara is a member of a new class of drugs called aromatase inhibi...

Predictable genes

...as found six genes which may play a role in breast cancer development. They hope that eventually, doctors wi... to gauge an individual woman's risk of developing cancer by looking closely at her genetic makeup.Only a small proportion of breast cancer cases are currentl...

Olive oil does good

... of bowel and rectum cancers. They studied bowel cancer rates in 28 countries across the world, most of wh...ave relatively lower incidence rates of colorectal cancer than would be suggested considering other aspects of their diet. "We suggest that olive oil does h...

No link between blood groups and prostate cancer

... with blood group A are not likely to get prostate cancer than men with other blood groups, despite popular ...are supposed to be more likely to develop prostate cancer and to get more aggressive forms of the disease. Hence it may be of big concern for men who have typ...

ZYDUS enters female health care segment

...ises bone mass thereby reducing the risk of breast cancer and decreases total and LDL cholesterol. Currently international trials are on to explore its use as a drug to prevent and treat breast cancer. Bonmax comes to India with an international experience of around four years. There are more than 10 mill...

New drug may stop alopecia

...se chemotherapy drugs aim to kill rapidly dividing cancer cells but also hit the cells surrounding hair foll...stream and affects only the hair cells and not the cancer cells....

Asthmatics at increased risk of lung cancer

...asthma.// None of the patients showed any signs of cancer at their initial assessment. Their health was moni...tudy’s conclusion, the researchers found that lung cancer affected asthmatics more frequently than the general population. They also found that the risk of de...

Defence against free radicals

..., autoimmune diseases like arthritis and diabetes, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. The researchers from the Medical Research Council’s Dunn Human Nutrition Unit in Cambridge found that molecules known as - uncoupling proteins can move a powerful free radical – called superoxide – from where it is synthesi...

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