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Cancer prevention recipe: Spicy tempeh tacos
2007-06-29 15:38:00 Studies show that diets high in fiber and low in fat can help prevent cancer. Like tofu, tempeh is made from soybeans, but tempeh is a whole soybean product with different nutritional characteristics and textural qualities. It has a higher content of protein, dietary fiber and vitamins compared to tofu. In the past five years ... More About: Diet , Cancer , Recipe , Nutrition , Prevention
Family Breast Cancer
2007-06-29 15:37:00 The chances of developing breast cancer are to some extent inherited, but important new findings suggest survival also runs in the family. Research published in the online journal Breast Cancer Research suggests that if a woman succumbs to breast cancer her daughters or sisters are over 60 percent more likely to die within five years ... More About: Family , Breast Cancer , Cancer Research
Childhood Cancer Survivors? Health Problems As Adults
2007-06-27 15:22:00 A substantial proportion of childhood cancer survivors experience serious health problems as young adults, particularly those who received radiation treatment, according to a study in the June 27 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on chronic diseases of children. Huib N. Caron, M.D., Ph.D., of Emma Children’s Hospital/Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, presented the findings of the ... More About: Health , Childhood , Cancer , Cancer Research , Problems
Frog Molecule and Brain Tumors Drug
2007-06-27 15:20:00 A synthetic version of a molecule found in the egg cells of the Northern Leopard frog (Rana pipiens) could provide the world with the first drug treatment for brain tumours. Known as Amphinase, the molecule recognises the sugary coating found on a tumour cell and binds to its surface before invading the cell and inactivating ... More About: Cancer treatment , Cancer Research , Frog , Drug , Brain
Pregnancy and breast cancer
2007-06-26 15:48:00 If you’ve ever been pregnant, I would say chances are you experienced some kind of morning sickness along the way. Although most of that experience contained things you’d like to forget, there may have been a silver lining after all. According to a recent scientific study, women who go through morning sickness and related maladies during ... More About: Pregnancy , Cancer , Breast Cancer , Breast , Brea
White foods and cancer
2007-06-26 15:45:00 If you eat a lot of things with a high glycemic load, which is a measurement of how quickly food raises your blood sugar, you may have problems not only related to diabetes or being over weight, but you could run a higher risk of colorectal cancer. A Harvard Medical School study involving 38,000 women ... More About: Diet , Cancer , White , Nutrition , Cancer Research
Five new cancer drugs from GlaxoSmithKline
2007-06-26 15:43:00 Five new cancer treatments are in the works and could be available for use as early as 2010, thanks to GlaxoSmithKline, PLC, the world’s second largest drug company. The drugs will treat a range of different cancers — one will be cervical cancer — and are known as cervarix, pazopanib, promacta, rezonic, and ofatumumab. “Over the next ... More About: News , Drugs , Cancer , Drug , Line
Tree Bark and novel lung cancer treatment
2007-06-26 15:39:00 Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have determined how a substance derived from the bark of the South American lapacho tree kills certain kinds of cancer cells, findings that also suggest a novel treatment for the most common type of lung cancer. The compound, called beta-lapachone, has shown promising anti-cancer properties and is currently being ... More About: Cancer , Treatment , Cancer treatment , Lung Cancer , Cancer Research
Expert Reviews: Fighting Pediatric Cancer Neuroblastoma
2007-06-25 15:52:00 Childhood cancers are fortunately rare, but among them, neuroblastoma is a special case, accounting for 7 percent of all childhood cancers, but 15 percent of childhood cancer deaths. It typically occurs as a solid tumor in the abdomen, but also in the neck, chest, and pelvis, developing in the network of the body’s sympathetic nervous ... More About: Reviews , Cancer , Fighting , Cancer Research , Neuroblastoma
Cancer survivor Governor vetoed a medical marijuana bill
2007-06-25 15:49:00 Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell is a cancer survivor. And so she knows the pain and heartbreak associated with the disease. Still, she vetoed a bill that would have allowed people with serious illnesses to use marijuana for medicinal purposes. It’s just too problematic and sends mixed messages to children, Rell said in a statement ... More About: News , Medical , Cancer , Survivor
Ovarian cancer is not the symptom free disease
2007-06-25 15:47:00 Ovarian cancer is not the symptom free disease that many medical textbooks have been claiming for years, says an Editorial in The Lancet. The Editorial says: “Far from its historic portrayal as a silent killer, ovarian cancer is preceded by symptoms, as recent evidence shows. Women who are ultimately diagnosed with the disease, and usually at ... More About: Cancer , Free , Cancer Research , Disease , Ovarian Cancer
Soldier diagnosed with breast cancer will deploy to Iraq
2007-06-25 15:45:00 Staff Sgt. Elizabeth Cowie’s dream almost ended when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in May. She was told earlier in the year that she would deploy to Iraq this summer. The forty-two year old mother is ready for duty after her aggressive treatment plan. She had two surgeries and a five day targeted radiation treatment ... More About: News , Cancer , Breast Cancer , Breast
Pregnancy and Breast Cancer
2007-06-25 15:42:00 It may not seem so at the time, but women who suffer through morning sickness during their pregnancies actually may be fortunate. Those women may have a 30 percent lower risk of developing breast cancer later in life than mothers-to-be who experience nine nausea-free months, a new study by epidemiologists at the University at Buffalo suggests. “Although ... More About: Pregnancy , Cancer , Breast Cancer , Breast , Cancer Research
Femara (letrozole) and ovarian cancer
2007-06-25 15:41:00 Femara (letrozole) provides both anticancer responses and disease stabilization in a significant number of patients with recurrent, estrogen receptor positive ovarian cancer. The results of the study were published in Clinical Cancer Research. Femara blocks levels of estrogen in the body, ultimately reducing or preventing growth of estrogen positive cancer cells. Femara has been demonstrated to ... More About: Cancer Research , Drug , Clinical Trials , Ovarian Cancer
Fatty acid consumption ratio may reduce prostate cancer risk
2007-06-23 18:06:00 If you are into making sure you consumer the proper level of essential fatty acids in your diets (or from supplements) each day, increasing the level of one while decreasing the level of another could reduce the risk or prostate cancer, according to a recent study that was done on animals (but is being translated ... More About: Cancer , Nutrition , Prostate Cancer , Risk , Acid
New Treatment For Colon And Liver Cancers
2007-06-23 18:04:00 Leire García Navarro, a researcher at the School of Pharmacy of the University of Navarra, has developed a new treatment which slows the growth of colon and liver cancers. This discovery is the principal result of her doctoral dissertation, entitled ?Lipo-Polymeric Vectors for the Transfer of DNA in Cancer Cells of the Colon ?, which was subsidized ... More About: Liver Cancer , Treatment , Cancer Research , Liver
Let young people know more about cancer
2007-06-23 18:03:00 Right now, the furthest thing from the minds of most young people is the topic and concept of cancer. Why should young people even be thinking of such things, you say? Well, in the society we live in, the habits — both nutritionally and lifestyle-wise — are being formed as kids grow into teenagers. Before ... More About: People , Cancer , Young
Training immune system to kill nose and throat cancer
2007-06-23 18:00:00 Nasopharyngeal cancer is most prevalent in South China and kills one in every three victims. The disease is thought to be linked to diets rich in preserved foods, like salted fish. Scientists will soon test an experimental treatment for nose and throat cancer that will train the patient’s own white blood cells to fight the disease. ... More About: System , Diet , Cancer , Training , Cancer Research
Cancer research: omega-3 fatty acids and prostate cancer
2007-06-23 17:57:00 Research in mice suggests that a diet high in omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil and certain types of fish could potentially improve the prognosis of men who are genetically prone to develop prostate cancer. “This study clearly shows that diet can tip the balance toward a good or a bad outcome,” said senior researcher ... More About: Research , Cancer , Prostate Cancer , Cancer Research , Acids
Richard Bell(Rock musician, one-time member of Janis Joplin?s band) dies of
2007-06-22 16:37:00 Keyboardist and songwriter Richard Bell, one-time member of Janis Joplin’s band, died one June 15 of multiple myeloma in a Toronto hospital. He was 61. Bell, who began playing with Joplin’s Full Tilt Boogie Band in 1970, was diagnosed with cancer one year ago. He received intensive treatment and made a comeback, despite his poor prognosis. ... More About: News , Time , Rock , Musician
Cancer Research: genetic pattern of tumor growth and potential new cancer t
2007-06-22 16:34:00 Using mathematical theory, UC Irvine scientists have shed light on one of cancer’s most troubling puzzles ? how cancer cells can alter their own genetic makeup to accelerate tumor growth. The discovery shows for the first time why this change occurs, providing insight into how cancerous tumors thrive and a potential foundation for future cancer ... More About: Research , Cancer , Growth , Tumor , Cancer Research
Nexavar and advanced liver cancer
2007-06-22 16:32:00 A newer drug called Nexavar, used for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma cancer, is being marketed by Bayer and Onyx Pharmaceuticals in Europe to be approved for an officially-sanctioned treatment of liver cancer. Although Nexavar is being used in 50 countries for kidney cancer, the drug is now being described as a possible treatment for advanced ... More About: Cancer , Liver Cancer , Drug , Liver , Vance
Coffee may reduce the risk of liver cancer?
2007-06-22 16:30:00 Can coffee reduce the risk of liver cancer? According to findings published in the medical journal Gastroenterology it can. “Data on potential beneficial effects of coffee on liver function and liver diseases have accrued over the last two decades,” states Drs. Susanna C. Larsson and Alicja Wolk, from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. 11 studies involving ... More About: Cancer , Coffee , Liver Cancer , Cancer Research , Risk
Cancer Research: Potential New Cancer Drug
2007-06-22 16:26:00 Research led by scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College has uncovered two new potential points of vulnerability on a key cancer-promoting protein, called XIAP. Drug s that target either of these activities could help push cancer cells back into a more regular programmed cell death and thereby reduce or eliminate tumors. These findings were published in the ... More About: Research , Cancer , Cancer Research , Cancer Drug
Claudia Cohen(high-profile gossip columnist) dies of ovarian cancer
2007-06-21 16:35:00 High-profile television and newspaper gosspip columnist Claudia Cohen, most recently a regular correspondent covering entertainment for the syndicated talk show Live With Regis and Kelly, died Friday of ovarian cancer. She was 56. Known for her aggressive pursuit of celebrity news and her public divorce from billionaire businessman Ronald O. Perelman, Cohen first hit the spotlight ... More About: News , Cancer , Gossip , Profile , High
Cancer prevention recipe: Steel cut oats with blueberries
2007-06-21 16:33:00 Since the 1970s, researchers have suspected that diet and nutrition are related to colorectal cancer risk. Numerous studies published since that time have confirmed the connection between what we eat and risk of this cancer. Many health experts agree that a high fiber diet is important for cancer prevention, but questions remain about how much ... More About: Diet , Cancer , Recipe , Nutrition , Prevention
Recovery from chemotherapy or bone marrow transplant more quickly
2007-06-21 16:31:00 Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston report finding a new way to increase stem cells in blood, suggesting a possible treatment to help patients who undergo chemotherapy or bone marrow transplant for leukemia and other cancers recover their immune function more quickly. In the June 21 issue of Nature, they demonstrate that a stable analog of ... More About: Recovery , Chemotherapy , Cancer Research , Leukemia , Plan
Estrogen-alone hormone therapy in younger postmenopausal women
2007-06-21 16:26:00 New results from a substudy of the Women ’s Health Initiative (WHI) Estrogen-Alone Trial show that younger postmenopausal women who take estrogen-alone hormone therapy have significantly less buildup of calcium plaque in their arteries compared to their peers who did not take hormone therapy. Coronary artery calcium is considered a marker for future risk of coronary ... More About: Cancer Research , Therapy , Lone
Lung cancer prevention: Smoking in Britain
2007-06-19 16:40:00 Britain is trying to get it’s citizens to quit smoking and is taking extreme measures to accomplish that. Recent reports state that in addition to a total ban on smoking in public places, smokers will not be allowed to adopt children under the age of five and will be refused surgery. My first reaction was a ... More About: Cancer , Britain , Prevention , Smoking , Lung Cancer
Ixabepilone - new breast cancer drug
More articles from this author:2007-06-19 16:37:00 A new and experimental breast cancer drug, ixabepilone, has passed initial health regulator scrutiny and from all reports, an approval (or not) could come later this year, perhaps in October. The FDA’s decision on this new drug will be given with a “priority review,” which means the regular 10 to 12 months review period will be ... More About: Cancer , Breast Cancer , Breast , Drug , Cancer Drug 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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