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Tag: "tumor" at medical news

Herbal Remedy Risky for Cancer Patients

...may be at high risk of having an undetected breast tumor and certainly those who do have breast cancer should proceed with caution or simply avoid taking black cohosh until we learn if there are ways to circumvent these adverse effects." Black cohosh is one of the most commonly used alternative supplemen...

Reviving the Immune System

...ce in favor of the immune system and away from the tumor or lymphoma." In a study of 16 patients, five went into complete remission, seven had partial remission, and four had their disease stabilize. "Given that this was a very advanced, very ill population of patients, the responses that we saw were ver...

New Treatment for Some Cancers

...used to treat bone metastases that are formed when tumor cells invade bone marrow. For many years, doctors ...g results in the second group, where levels of the tumor marker PSA declined by more than half in 39 percent of the study subjects. The lower PSA levels cont...

Tea Prevents Skin Cancer

..., researchers believe the polyphenols help inhibit tumor growth. Studies in mice show green tea polyphenols block the skin’s response to UV light. Zigang Dong, M.D., from University of Minnesota in Austin’s Hormel Institute, says the new cream is an important step in improving skin cancer prevention. He s...

Same molecule found in meat, milk, tumors

...d hook onto Neu5Gc. The team found Neu5Gc in human tumor samples and to a much lower degree in healthy tissue. More tests showed that most people had made their own antibodies that recognized Neu5Gc, and thus could potentially initiate an inflammatory immune response. “Meat eating has certainly been a fe...

False beliefs could cost cancer patients their lives

...ents at five centers said they believed exposing a tumor to air would cause it to spread. Most of the patients were male and tended to be elderly, and the poorer and less educated they were, the more likely they were to believe it. The surveys were given to patients at lung clinics at three sites in Phila...

New Liver Tumor Treatment

...s. The treatment includes reducing the size of the tumor //before using lasers to heat and destroy the tumo...otherapy (LITT) to heat tumors. The problem is the tumor cannot be too large in order to do this procedure. Doctors say this is especially true for patients ...

Partial-Breast Irradiation an Unproven Therapy

...ed after a lumpectomy into the site from which the tumor has been removed and then delivers radiation to th...er cells that might have escaped from the original tumor from spreading to other parts of the same breast. Freedman presented a study last month at the annu...

New vaccine for brain cancer

... way.//Latest research involves an effective brain tumor vaccine. Dr. Black says brain tumors try to hide proteins on the tumor cell surface that the immune system could use to recognize the tumor. By hiding these cells, brain t...

Preventing Colorectal Cancer

...rent study, smoking increased the risk of having a tumor or benign polyp by nearly two-fold. Researchers say having a relative with colorectal cancer also increases a patient’s risk, but not as much as smoking does. Patients who consume red meat and alcohol also have a slightly higher risk of developing th...

Prostate Cancer in Obese Men

...lin-like growth factor 1 -- may encourage prostate tumor growth in obese men. Also, obese men usually have ...growth. In addition, diets high in fat may promote tumor growth. Medical peers agree with the conclusions of the studies and encourage further investigation...

Understanding The Predictors Of Prostate Cancer

...on pattern (GP). Different Gleason patterns of the tumor also help determine the Gleason score. In the study group, researchers say 307 patients had primary GP three tumors, 105 patients had primary GP four tumors, and 17 had GP five tumors. Researchers found those with GP five had significantly shorter ...

PET Scan May Be Beneficial After Cancer Treatment

...chers in Switzerland correctly identified residual tumor tissue, distant metastases, or a second primary tumor in 10 patients. Five of those patients had no clinical evidence of these findings. The PET scan fals...

Breast Implants May Interfere With The Interpretation Of Mammogram Results

...implants did not affect prognostic factors such as tumor stage and size. Based on their study researchers say that, “Although the sensitivity of screening mammography is lower in asymptomatic women with breast augmentation, there is no evidence that this results in more advanced disease at diagnosis comp...

PET Scans Found To Reveal Hidden Cancers

...ies were cancerous tumors unrelated to the primary tumor already under study. Researchers say 92 percent of the patients with these secondary cancers reported no symptoms. Researchers say the unexpected abnormalities they followed up on were significant. Typically, these cancers were not symptomatic and we...

Link Between Alcohol Consumption And Cardiovascular Disease

...ch interleukin-6 (IL-6), C-reactive protein (CPR), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI-1). Results show moderate drinkers had the lowest levels of IL-6 and CPR in comparison to non-drinkers. However, those who consumed high levels of alcohol had higher levels ...

New Way to Detect Spread of Skin Cancer

...uring its thickness. It was believed the thicker a tumor was, the more likely it was to spread. However, ma...l cell carcinoma and Merkel cell carcinoma (a skin tumor thought to spread through a vascular route). The density inside the malignant melanoma tumor was eig...

Life After Testicular Cancer

...ommon cancer in men between ages 15 and 45. When a tumor is found, the normal procedure is simply to remove...he new technique, doctors can remove the malignant tumor and still preserve and treat the remaining testicle. To prevent doing the severe procedure unneces...

The Effectiveness Of The Breast Cancer Drug By Pfizer

... cancer lowered their chance of developing another tumor by 32 percent if they switched to exemestane after two or three years of tamoxifen treatment. According to the research presented this week at a breast cancer conference , the median survival for patients taking exemestane was 10.9 months, compared...

Latest Tumor Classification More Informative

...l these molecular data must be incorporated into a tumor classification // that includes morphological and ...umors), comprehensive (providing a place for every tumor of man), and consistent with recent attempts to characterize tumors by cytogenetic and molecular fea...

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