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Progestin protects against ovarian cancer

Ovarian cancer is the most common cancer among women. It accounts for about 4 percent of all cancers in women, with more than 23,000 new case...

Breast screening among diabetic women

Breast cancer should be detected in early stages in order to pre...study there has been decreased detection of breast cancer and henceforth brest screening should be implemented. Researchers at the University of Texas survey...

A new study surpasses Gene Therapy Hurdle

...improving the body's immune response to developing cancer vaccines to reducing the danger of rejecting transplanted organs. Blood stem cells form the core of the blood system.// They can give rise to any of the various types of cells in the blood, including immune cells. In principle, genetic modification...

A new vaccine for leukemia

...ating the body's immune system to fight lymphoma,a cancer of the immune cells in the blood.//The lymphoma ce... and will offer the patient immunity against their cancer for life.It is hoped that the treatment can be refined and extended to other cancers of the blood - ...

Beverage protect against bladder cancer

...rom all new and already diagnosed cases of bladder cancer over a 1 year period from 10 general hospitals.// ...ffee were three times as likely to develop bladder cancer as non-smoking coffee drinkers. But smokers who didn't drink coffee were seven times as likely to de...

Inherited gene important in ovarian cancer

...ian cancer. A gene implicated in inherited ovarian cancer is more significant in the disease than previously realised. Up to 10 per cent of cases of ovarian cancer arise from a mutation in a gene called BRCA1.// In these cases, the woman usually has a strong famil...

Burden of lung disease

...ller, accounting for one in four deaths, more than cancer or coronary heart disease. The key issue is that t..., chest physicians look after everything from lung cancer to chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder(COPD), asthma, pneumonia, cystic fibrosis and sleep apnoea...

Cytobrush to detect oral cancer

...tists now have an easy painfree way to detect oral cancer at its earliest stages. Cytobrush biopsy, is a tec... oral cancer. The survival rate for this prevalent cancer is only 40 per cent overall, but survival rates increase to greater than 80 per cent if the cancer i...

Variation in breast cancer

...ntribute relatively more to the diet, the rates of cancer tend to be lower. It may be that high intake of ...promote breast cancer. Another factor important in cancer is exposure to sunlight. Having more UVB radiation, which means higher levels of vitamin D, seems to...

Appropriate treatment for breast cancer

...ent should be recommended for paitents with breast cancer in order to reduce the complications. Women who have// had breast cancer do well years after treatment, although those who have chemotherapy and tamoxifen may have reduced p...

FDA approves drug for rare liver disease

...er that causes progressive liver failure and liver cancer in young children. It's a very rare disease.// It is not among the metabolic diseases that all newborns are tested for at birth, so often infants die undiagnosed. This is an absolutely fatal disease until now. Children born with such a very rare but...

Combination therapy to treat breast cancer

... therapies results in dramatic reduction in breast cancer cell growth in vitro, indicating a potentially powerful new approach to treating the condition.// The two drug agents – trastuzumab and ZD1839 were found to work synergistically to inhibit the action of two different growth factors receptors, HER2 an...

Focused Treatment For Childhood Cancer

A poorly understood type of childhood brain cancer has a unique molecule signature that may point to ..., the most common childhood tumour of the CNS. The cancer usually strikes between the ages of 5 and 10. Medulloblastomas are highly malignant, and can spread ...

Infertile men at cancer risk

...link between abnormalities in sperm production and cancer of the testicles. But the researchers maintain th...een 1975 and 1995 with the incidence of testicular cancer in the Indian national cancer register. It found 78 cases of testicular cancer among infertile men...

Relief to pregnant women using fertility drugs

... over the link between fertility drugs and ovarian cancer developed about 10 years ago, when small, isolated...rugs appeared to be at no greater risk for ovarian cancer than other women who had significant problems getting pregnant and did not take the drugs....

Cure for osteoporosis in prostate cancer patients

Osteoporosis can be prevented in prostate cancer patients who are undergoing androgen deprivation t...ted 54 patients with clinically localised prostate cancer and 24 with benign prostatic hyperplasia. Those with prostate cancer were either treated with extern...

Smoking stripes longevity

... of the impact of// smoking carried out by leading cancer expert Professor Gary Billiards.They calculated that smokers were likely to die 7.3 years earlier than non-smokers. The researchers admit that their calculation is unrefined as it relies on averages, assumes the health effects of smoking are evenly ...

The negative advancement

...hip between// tanning lamps and many types of skin cancer like basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma...and 74 years old - most of whom had developed skin cancer - asking them about their history of sun exposure, sunbed usage and smoking history. Overall, people...

Broccoli's role against cancer

A cancer preventing compound in broccoli, first isolated a ...es, called “phase 2” enzymes, that protect against cancer by blocking select chemicals from becoming carcinogens. The scientists studied sulphoraphane’s ef...

New Prostate Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise

...cine made from the immune system cells of prostate cancer patients show it to be a promising. Dr. Johannes V...state-specific antigen levels increase in prostate cancer patients. These dendritic cells are then injected under the patient's skin to trigger immune system ...

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