Archive for the ‘Cancer Research’ Category

Lifestyle Factors Increase Risk of Second Breast Cancer

29th September 2009 by admin 1 Comment

Researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have reported that obesity, alcohol consumption, and smoking significantly increase the risk of second breast cancers among breast cancer survivors. The details of this study appeared in the Journal of Clinical Oncology early online on September 8, 2009.
Approximately 200,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year [...]

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Researchers Struggle to Understand Breast Cancer’s Racial Gap

29th September 2009 by admin No Comments

Breast cancer occurs more often in white women than in black women in the United States, but it kills more black women than white.
This is known as the “racial gap” of breast cancer, a provocative topic for cancer researchers hoping to save lives.
Several studies released in the past year have tried to figure out why [...]

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Pancreatic Cancer Deaths Higher for Blacks

3rd September 2009 by admin 1 Comment

Blacks have a significantly higher risk of dying from pancreatic cancer than whites, a new U.S. study has found.
Even after eliminating known pancreatic cancer risk factors, such as smoking and obesity, blacks still had a 42 percent higher risk of dying from the disease than their white counterparts, according to the Washington University-led study, which [...]

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Advanced Skin, Brain Cancers Improve With Experimental Hedgehog Drug

3rd September 2009 by admin 3 Comments

People with advanced skin and brain cancers — untreatable by current methods — improve after treatment with a new oral drug called a hedgehog inhibitor.
Hedgehog is one of the hottest new anticancer targets. During embryonic development and childhood, the signaling molecule nicknamed hedgehog spurs growth processes. But the body turns it off during adulthood. When [...]

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Regimens: Habits Help in Avoiding Breast Cancer, Study Finds

3rd September 2009 by admin No Comments

Women can cut their risk of breast cancer by almost half if they watch their weight, exercise daily, breast-feed their babies and limit alcoholic beverages, according to a new report by the American Institute for Cancer Research.
The report is an update of a 2007 review of more than 800 studies, adding information from 81 new [...]

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WHO: Tanning Beds Cause Cancer

29th July 2009 by admin 3 Comments

A leading global cancer research group is declaring tanning bed use a significant cancer hazard.
The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced today that it has moved UV tanning beds to its highest cancer risk category — “carcinogenic to humans.”
Prior to the move, the group had classified sun lamp and [...]

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Endoscopic Surgery As Effective Open Surgery For Nasal Cancer

7th July 2009 by admin No Comments

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have shown that endoscopic surgery is a valid treatment option for treating esthesioneuroblastoma (cancer of the nasal cavity), in addition to traditional open surgery and nonsurgical treatments.
Esthesioneuroblastoma is a very rare cancer that develops in the upper part of the nasal cavity and thought to derive from [...]

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Weight-loss Surgery Cuts Cancer Risks in Women

24th June 2009 by admin 3 Comments

Weight-loss surgery may help obese women lower their risk of developing cancer, Swedish researchers said on Tuesday.
They found women who had weight-loss surgery were 42 percent less likely to develop cancer during a 10-year study published in the journal Lancet Oncology.
Men in the study did not benefit, possibly because many cancers are driven by female [...]

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A Cancer Treatment in the Spice Cabinet?

20th June 2009 by admin 2 Comments

A growing body of laboratory research suggests the spice turmeric has potent anticancer activity — and researchers have launched a slew of human trials to find out just how powerful it may be.
“I think the promise is enormous,” said Bharat Aggarwal, PhD, chief of the cytokine research laboratory in the department of experimental therapeutics at [...]

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You Can Help Researchers Learn More About Cancer

20th June 2009 by admin 1 Comment

Thousands of people attending Relay For Life events this year will have a chance to do more than raise awareness and money for cancer research: They’ll be able to enroll in an important new study that promises to shed light on many of the factors that influence how cancer develops and why.
The American Cancer Society [...]

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