There is a study, whill was published in the December issue of Cancer Prevention Research, that was be of the American Association for Cancer Research. In those jurnal is saying that the element selenium, a trace mineral found in grains, nuts and meats, may aid in the prevention of high-risk bladder cancer. The researchers which [...]
Partial or complete blindness is one of the potential consequences of radiation treatment for eye cancer. Now a University of Colorado School of Medicine physician has discovered a way to prevent blindness related to eye cancer treatment. Cancer of the eye and orbit is not common, but it can be devastating. The National Cancer Institute [...]
Drawings of tumors have been found on turtle shells and “oracle bones” dating from the eleventh century B.C. Medical texts dating from 200 B.C. have detailed descriptions of tumors and their causes. Cancer is well known and well documented in Chinese medical literature. Yet there is no word for cancer in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). [...]
Biochemist and protein crystallographer Dr. Oliver Daumke of the Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, has won the “Bayer Early Excellence in Science Award 2010″ in the biology category. He will receive the prize worth EUR 10,000 for his contributions to the understanding of the structure and function of GTP-binding (G) proteins [...]
Women with breast cancer who smoke regularly or used to be regular smokers have a significantly higher chance of faster breast cancer progression and dying from the disease, compared to non-smoking patients, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco revealed at the Ninth Annual AACR (American Association For Cancer Research) Frontiers in Cancer Prevention [...]
To find out whether it is a mole or cancer, check your skin every few months, because most skin cancers start as irregular spots, says Ariel Ostad, MD, assistant professor of dermatology at New York University. Normal mole What it is: A mole is a harmless spot that develops in childhood or later in life [...]
Many people know someone with cancer, a friend, a relative or a colleague at work and want to help, but don’t know how to go about offering it or what kind of support they can give. There are lots of things you can do, but perhaps a good place to start is to recognize that [...]
Ron Sveden, a retired teacher from Brewster, Massachusetts in the US was astonished to discover that what he thought was a tumor growing in his lung was actually a plant that had sprouted from an inhaled pea. 75-year old Sveden said he was told the pea seed had split and sprouted in his lung. It [...]
A very aggressive disease with a poor prognosis, gallbladder cancer may be connected to higher exposure to estrogens, according to a group of researchers at the University of Houston (UH). Dr. Jan-Ake Gustafsson, Robert A. Welch Professor in UH’s biology and biochemistry department, described his team’s findings in a paper titled “Estrogen-dependent gallbladder carcinogenesis in [...]
Women who have had gynaecological cancer are invited to learn more about how yoga can benefit them at Yeovil District Hospital later this month. The GOSSIP patient support group provides advice and information for women with gynaecological cancer. It was founded by the Gynaecological Cancer Specialist Nurses based in Yeovil and Taunton in partnership with [...]
