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Tag: "cancer" at medical news

Lack of solar radiation causes cancer

...esearcher based in Hopkins University has analysed cancer rates in New England and compared them to those in the Southern states. He says that cancer rates are inversely related to UV-B exposure, for cancers of the breast, colon, ovary, oesophagus, a...

Screening device for ovarian cancer

...researchers, a new technique for detecting ovarian cancer at an early stage is demonstrating its potential. ...on another group of women - of whom 50 had ovarian cancer (some of them at the very earliest stage that is hard to detect) and 60 did not. The proteomics te...

Ethnic discrepancy in ovarian cancer

...ave found that African American women with ovarian cancer have a worse outcome than Caucasian women.// Ovarian cancer causes more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive organs. It is now obvious that e...

Chromosomes to predict oral cancer

...mosomes found in the leukoplakia cells is doubled, cancer becomes more likely, the study found. Twelve of 20...ls developed cancer. The likelihood of developing cancer was found to be greatest in patients with leukoplakia cells containing a number of chromosomes that ...

Failure of Drug-Coated Stent

... found that stents coated with a derivative of the cancer drug paclitaxel - which inhibits cell division - failed to keep blood vessels open in the majority of a small group of patients, resulting in heart attacks in 3 cases. In angioplasty, a balloon-tipped catheter is threaded into a blocked artery and i...

Hope for breast cancer patients

BREAST cancer patients may one day have the option of having one... for women and may improve the treatment of breast cancer for patients living in remote areas or in the developing world. Dr. Emiel Rutgers, of the Netherlan...

Skin cancer on the rise

The incidence of skin cancer in men has increased by 12% in six years, according to the charity Cancer Research UK. About 6,500 people a year are now diagnosed with the disease, 3,000 of those are men.// One possible reason for the rise of melanomas in men is that they tend to...

Arthritis drug can prolong life

...ory medication might ward them off. Originally a cancer drug, methotrexate has been used to fight rheumatoid arthritis for about 15 years. Since then it has been proven to slow progression of the inflammatory disease and to make patients feel better, but a new study provides the first hint it may also sav...

Drug to treat lung cancer shows promise

...to treat dry mouth could help protect against lung cancer in lifelong smokers. The drug appears especially p... risk of lung cancer. Half of newly diagnosed lung cancer is in former smokers. The challenge is helping these people lower their risk." said Dr. Frank J. Rau...

Herbs With Estrogen Action Aggravate Cancer Risk

...ay further increase the risk of breast and uterine cancer for women already predisposed to those diseases. //Researchers offer new evidence that herbs such as red clover and motherwort - traditionally used for gynecological complaints - as well as saw palmetto and rhodiola rosea root can have such a strong ...

Vegetables decrease Tobacco Toxins

According to cancer researchers, smokers who eat at least two servings of cruciferous vegetables a week have lower levels of tobacco-related toxins in their urine.// Dr. Gina Day Stephenson of the American Health Foundation,N.Y., felt that the vegetables, which include ...

Early Warning System For Breast Cancer

...stem that could spot dangerously aggressive breast cancer long before it begins to spread, and identify the ...n begin, we hope it will help identify early-stage cancer that could be vulnerable to aggressive treatment, perhaps with drugs that target Rho protein....

Tea can prevent aging

...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...

Drug stabilizes cancer growth

A experimental drug stopped the progression of cancer in 7 out of 10 patients while causing minimal side...ion inhibitors, all designed to switch off certain cancer processes. Phenoxodiol was discovered by Novogen Ltd., Marshall Edwards' Australian parent company. ...

HRT an accretion of cancer

...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 ...

Attacking therapy with electricity

... many potentially powerful treatments //including cancer therapy and gene therapy are limited by the diffic.... Research so far has applied electroporation to cancer chemotherapy, the delivery of DNA for gene therapy, and to the delivery of drugs for a range of medi...

One IV treatment a year rather than a pill a day

...lled zoledronic acid, which is approved for use in cancer patients to treat a condition in which calcium seeps from the bones. The drug was found to slow the rate of bone less and increase bone density, and the effect persisted for at least a year after treatment, long after the medication had disappeared f...

Novel biopsy technique for prostate cancer

...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...

Breast cancer risk doubles by high sex hormone levels

...one have about twice the risk of developing breast cancer as women// with relatively low serum concentration...m sex hormone levels and risk of developing breast cancer were not different in women who donated blood closer in time to diagnosis, indicating higher hormone...

New hope for eye cancer

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...

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