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Top 13 most unhealthy, cancer-causing foods
• Cancer • • Food & Nutrition • Mar 25 15
Cancer is a disease that you should never take lightly. There are cases where it strikes quickly but often, cancer manifests after years of…
Top 10 Cancer Causing Foods
• Cancer • • Food & Nutrition • Mar 20 15
Cancer is a disease that you should never take lightly. There are cases where it strikes quickly but often, cancer manifests after years of…
How green tea could help improve MRIs
• Brain • • Cancer • • Food & Nutrition • Mar 18 15
Green tea’s popularity has grown quickly in recent years. Its fans can drink it, enjoy its flavor in their ice cream and slather it…
Taking immunosuppressives, anti-cancer drugs may reactivate hepatitis B
• Cancer • • Drug News • • Infections • Feb 05 15
Individuals previously infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV) who receive chemotherapy or immunosuppressive treatment may be at risk of reactivating the disease according…
Smoking linked to higher risk of death among colorectal cancer survivors
• Cancer • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 03 15
Colorectal cancer survivors who smoke cigarettes were at more than twice the risk of death than non-smoking survivors, adding to existing evidence that cigarette…
Bacteria could contribute to development of wound-induced skin cancer
• Cancer • • Infections • Jan 12 15
Researchers at King’s College London have identified a new mechanism by which skin damage triggers the formation of tumours, which could have important therapeutic…
Cancer treatment potential discovered in gene repair mechanism
• Cancer • • Genetics • Dec 31 14
Case Western Reserve researchers have identified a two-pronged therapeutic approach that shows great potential for weakening and then defeating cancer cells. The team’s complex…
How Red Wine Prevents Cancer
• Cancer • • Food & Nutrition • Dec 04 14
Alcohol use is a major risk factor for head and neck cancer. But an article published in the November issue of the journal Advances…
Massey researchers develop the first cancer health literacy tool
• Cancer • Nov 03 14
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Massey Cancer Center researchers have developed the first and only tool that can accurately measure cancer health literacy (CHL) and…
Improving imaging of cancerous tissues by reversing time
• Cancer • Nov 02 14
As a child, it was fascinating to put a flashlight up to our palms to see the light shine through the hand. Washington University…
Decoding the emergence of metastatic cancer stem cells
• Cancer • Nov 02 14
In the first study of its kind, Rice University researchers have mapped how information flows through the genetic circuits that cause cancer cells to…
More than 70 percent of young oncologists in Europe suffer symptoms of burnout
• Cancer • • Public Health • Sep 26 14
Across Europe, more than 70% of young cancer specialists are showing signs of burnout, the largest survey of its kind has revealed. The results,…
Scientists create new ‘designer proteins’ in fight against Alzheimer’s and cancer
• Brain • • Cancer • • Neurology • Sep 24 14
Chemists at the University of Leicester have reported a breakthrough in techniques to develop new drugs in the fight against diseases such as cancer…
New cancer drug target involving lipid chemical messengers
• Cancer • • Drug News • Sep 21 14
More than half of human cancers have abnormally upregulated chemical signals related to lipid metabolism, yet how these signals are controlled during tumor formation…
Scientists map risk of premature menopause after cancer treatment
• Cancer • • Gender: Female • • Menopause • Aug 23 14
Women treated for the cancer Hodgkin lymphoma will be able to better understand their risks of future infertility after researchers estimated their risk of…
Pepper and halt: Spicy chemical may inhibit gut tumors
• Cancer • • Food & Nutrition • Aug 02 14
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that dietary capsaicin - the active ingredient in chili peppers - produces…
How Obesity Leads to Type 2 Diabetes, Cancer
• Cancer • • Diabetes • • Obesity • Jun 08 14
Findings about the biological links between obesity, type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance may also shed light on the connection between cancer and obesity,…
One in 4 children with leukemia not taking maintenance medication, study shows
• Children's Health • • Cancer • Jun 02 14
An estimated 25 percent of children in remission from acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) are missing too many doses of an essential maintenance medication that…
Fighting cancer with dietary changes
• Cancer • • Dieting • May 26 14
Calorie restriction, a kind of dieting in which food intake is decreased by a certain percentage, has been touted as way to help people…
Wine compound not tied to improved health: study
• Cancer • • Dieting • • Heart • May 13 14
A compound found in wine and chocolate may not be linked to improved health as was once claimed, according to a new study.
The…
Diets rich in antioxidant resveratrol fail to reduce deaths, heart disease or cancer
• Cancer • • Dieting • • Heart • May 13 14
A study of Italians who consume a diet rich in resveratrol - the compound found in red wine, dark chocolate and berries - finds…
Study links severe sleep apnea to increased risk of stroke, cancer and death
• Cancer • • Mortality and Morbidity • • Stroke • Apr 14 14
A new study shows that moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea is independently associated with an increased risk of stroke, cancer and death.
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Immunotherapy could help tackle tough liver cancer
• Cancer • • Immunology • Apr 11 14
London, England, Friday 11 April 2014 Significant new data presented today at the International Liver Congress™ 2014 indicate that liver cancer (Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC))…
Blocking DNA repair mechanisms could improve radiation therapy for brain cancer
• Brain • • Cancer • Apr 08 14
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have demonstrated in both cancer cell lines and in mice that blocking critical DNA repair mechanisms could improve the…
Gene may predict if further cancer treatments are needed
• Cancer • • Genetics • Mar 28 14
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers are developing a new predictive tool that could help patients with breast cancer and certain lung cancers decide whether…