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Researchers invent a test revealing the genetic signature of tumor

Fri Feb 19, 15:26 / comments: 0

Researchers identified biomarkers specific to a tumor in blood by blood test

U.S. researchers have developed the first genetic test that can identify biomarkers specific to a tumor in blood, a breakthrough that could improve the personalized treatment of cancer.

Lung Cancer: A question of genes?

Mon Mar 15, 15:13 / comments: 0

A possible link between a gene on chromosome 6, and lung cancer

Not all smokers are equal to the risk of cancer. A genetic factor is also responsible for lung cancer, a study by U.S. researchers says.

Lung cancer in non-smokers: discovery of a genetic predisposition

Mon Mar 22, 20:22 / comments: 0

A quarter of lung cancer cases worldwide occur among non-smokers

Genetic variations may significantly contribute to increasing the risk of developing lung cancer among never-smokers, according to a study published Monday online in the journal The Lancet Oncology.

Prostate cancer: A preventive drug

Thu Apr 1, 15:13 / comments: 0

Each year, prostate cancer strikes 90.000 men and is responsible for 10.000 deaths

A new drug, dutasteride, taken as a preventive measure could reduce the risk of getting prostate cancer by 23%.

Cancer: a study returns on fruits and vegetables

Mon Apr 12, 16:24 / comments: 0

Everyone has heard that to be healthy we must eat five fruit and vegetables per day, yet it now appears that contrary to what was previously thought, these eating habits are not sufficient to reduce the risk of cancer.

Colorectal cancer: Prevention with sigmoidoscopy

Thu Apr 29, 16:01 / comments: 0

The incidence of colorectal cancer was reduced by 33% in people who have made a sigmoidoscopy

According to a study by British researchers published in the medical journal Lancet, for a sigmoidoscopy, a cursory examination of the rectum and lower colon, between 55 and 64 years would reduce deaths from cancer colorectal by 43%.

Mobile phones and cancer study: no link found

Mon May 17, 12:11 / comments: 0

It is difficult to demonstrate an increased risk of cancer associated with the use of mobile phones

International Interphone Study of International Center for Cancer Research does not confirm an increased risk of cancer associated with the use of mobile phones.

Women. Cigarettes. Lung cancer

Mon May 24, 21:09 / comments: 0

For women, there are four times more deaths than fifteen years ago

Lung cancer is the most specific indicator of the effect of tobacco on health. If we monitor lung cancer between 35 and 44 years, we observe the effects of smoking the last twenty years. For women, there are four times more deaths than fifteen years ago.

A hope against lung cancer?

Sat Sep 11, 17:22 / comments: 0

Metformin activated an enzyme produced by molecules that neutralize antimicrobial protein that plays a key role in the growth and survival of lung cancer cells

The antidiabetic drug metformin significantly reduced the frequency of this type of cancer in laboratory mice exposed to a derivative of nicotine, carcinogens in tobacco.

Research: Vaccine against breast cancer

Thu Jun 3, 15:03 / comments: 0

The researchers evaluated the vaccine first in a transgenic mouse that spontaneously developed mammary tumors and in mice that received transplants of mammary tumors

The announcement of the discovery of a vaccine against breast cancer in mice published in the latest issue of "Medicine" raises logically, many hopes. Obviously, such a vaccine is more than expected.

Vitamin B6 and methionine reduce the risk of lung cancer

Wed Jun 16, 15:13 / comments: 0

Methionine and vitamin B6 may cut more than half the risk of lung cancer

Patients with high levels of vitamin B6 and methionine would be less likely to develop lung cancer, according to the EPIC study conducted by researchers at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) published in JAMA.

Chlordecone increases the risk of prostate cancer

Mon Jun 28, 11:45 / comments: 0

Used against the weevil, a small nocturnal beetle that attacks the banana, chlordecone is one of the first endocrine disruptors studied in the world

Exposure to chlordecone significantly increases the risk of prostate cancer. This is the main result of an epidemiological study. This product family interacts with hormone-related cancers like prostate or breast cancer.

On the trail of a vaccine against brain cancer

Fri Oct 8, 12:24 / comments: 0

EGFRVIII marker is also found in other cancers (like breast or lung) but not in normal tissues

A therapeutic vaccine, tested in combination with conventional therapy in twenty patients, has extended survival by about 70%. These preliminary results have been obtained by the team of John Sampson at Duke University (United States).

More is known about HPV (Human papillomavirus)

Mon Oct 18, 18:07 / comments: 0

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is very common and particularly infectious. According to estimates, 70% of sexually active people are exposed at some point in their life, usually in adolescence or early adulthood.

The low-dose aspirin reduces mortality from some common cancers

Tue Dec 7, 10:22 / comments: 0

Taking low-dose aspirin (75 mg daily) in the long term leads to reduction of cancer mortality

A small amount of aspirin, taken daily, will substantially reduce mortality from a number of common cancers such as colon cancer or prostate cancer, according to a study published Tuesday in the British medical journal The Lancet.

Smoking causes damage to genes in minutes

Mon Jan 17, 15:05 / comments: 0

Effect is so quick as it is equivalent to the direct injection of the substance in the blood

The first whiffs of tobacco inhaled by a cigarette smoker causes damage in some minutes at genetic level which leads to risks of cancer, show a study of American scientists broadcast on Saturday.

Significant Details Regarding Latest Cancer Treatments

Wed Jan 4, 12:16 / comments: 0

Cancer is not only a disease it is a clump of dissimilar uncommon disease

There are different kinds of cancer that happens on the body, whether it is inherited on blood line of the family or an unnatural growth of cells of a person without knowing that it can lead to a severe problem.

Natural Way of Cancer and Disease Healer

Mon Jan 16, 10:07 / comments: 0

Non-drug cancer treatments present a promise decrease of billions of dollars to usual surgery and pharmaceutical companies

There are numerous alternate treatments of cancer that work mightily competently that organized drug, the food and drug administration, and the Pharmaceutical Industry would rather the public not understand about them.

WHO: Cell phones considered "possibly carcinogenic"

Thu Jun 2, 12:03 / comments: 0

Some basic steps can save you from waves of your phone, which use is considered "possibly carcinogenic" by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Cancer: Fight against malignant melanoma

Mon Jun 13, 12:13 / comments: 0

For the first time, two drugs have, each in turn, increase the survival of patients with metastatic forms

This is the beginning of a new era for melanomas and most formidable skin cancers. A drug targeted immunotherapy prolong survival in cases of metastasis.