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Fighting Cancer
Key Substance in Tumor Growth Discovered
A particular biochemical causes new blood vessels to sprout, feeding melanoma tumor growth, and has been found to be the best measurement yet of how far along a skin cancer has progressed, according to a recent study.
Blacks' Higher Cancer Incidence Causes Higher Mortality
Blacks' higher mortality from cancer is due, for most types of the disease, to developing malignancies more frequently than whites - not mainly to discovery of the illness at a later, deadlier stage or having poorer survival rates after diagnosis (both of which are also the case), a recent study showed. Click Here For More Information on Cancer Treatment.
Breast Cancer Surgery Stressing Cosmetics Over Cures?
Recent innovations in breast cancer surgery that allow doctors to minimize postsurgical breast deformities may be stressing cosmetic outcomes to the detriment of actual rates of cure, a senior physician warned recently. Click Here For More Information on Cancer Treatment.
Nanoparticles Carrying Deadly Genes Destroy Cancer Cells
For the first time, infinitesimal particles, loaded with anti-tumor genes, have been created that can bypass healthy cells and ferry the genes exclusively into cancer cells, stimulating them to manufacture deadly proteins that cause cell suicide, a recent study showed. Click Here For More Information on Cancer Treatment.
"Miracle" Protein Removes Wrinkles, Belly Fat and Shrinks Tumors
When the amount of a special cellular protein is reduced in the body, facial wrinkles are smoothed out and health-threatening visceral fat is diminished, a recent study revealed. Another fascinating aspect of the protein is that when its level is lessened, cancerous tumors begin to shrink. Click Here For More Information on Cancer Treatment.
Cellular "Danger Receptor" Alerts Immune System to Cancer
A chemical "danger receptor" on certain specialized cells senses the cell death characteristic of bodily injury or malignant tissue and then mobilizes the body's immune system to repair the flaw, a recent study has revealed. Click Here For More Information on Cancer Treatment.
Racial Gap in Cancer Mortality Stubbornly Persists
In statistics almost unchanged from those in 1981, blacks have been found to be significantly more likely to develop and die of cancer than whites, a recent study revealed. And blacks, once diagnosed with cancer, don't live as long as their white counterparts. Click Here For More Information on Cancer Treatment.
Fertility Drugs Raise Cancer Risk
Taking medications to enhance fertility appears to increase the chance of developing uterine cancer in particular, as well as some other forms of the disease, according to a very large, long, recently completed study. Click Here For More Information on Cancer Treatment.
Drinking Raises Cancer Risk
Moderate drinking of just three or more alcoholic beverages a week measurably raises women's risk of developing cancer, a recent study revealed. Click Here For More Information on Cancer Treatment.
Viruses Being Used to Fight Cancer
It's common knowledge that viruses make us sick. But a new, counterintuitive logic is coming into play in the war on cancer, namely, that viruses can also make us well. Click Here For More Information on Cancer Treatment.
An Amazing Anti-Cancer Protein
A small but powerful protein, through its unique action of halting the division of pre-cancerous cells, generally prevents more than half of all human cancers. Researchers have respectfully dubbed it the "guardian angel," "guardian of the genome," or the "dictator of life and death." Click Here For More Information on Cancer Treatment.
Exercising After 50 Reduces Breast Cancer Risk
Walking as little as 30 minutes a day, especially after age 50 - even in the course of doing household-related chores - can significantly reduce a woman's risk of contracting breast cancer, a recent study found. Click Here For More Information on Cancer Treatment.
70 Percent of Cancers May Be Tobacco-Related
As many as 70 percent of overall cancer deaths may be linked to smoking, far beyond the rate of lung cancer mortality attributable to tobacco, according to recent research. Click Here For More Information on Cancer Treatment.
Laser Device Zaps Single Cancer Cells
A prototype laser system and microscope creates tiny bursts of light that sear individual cancer cells into oblivion, perhaps opening the way for more thorough surgeries for cancer, epilepsy and other conditions. Click Here For More Information on Cancer Treatment.
Sperm Quality Worsens With Obesity
Obese men are three times more likely than normal-weight men to have low sperm counts and to have sperm that don't "swim upstream," a recent study showed. Click Here For More Information on Cancer Treatment.
Tumors Soften Up Other Organs to Receive Cancer Cells
In preparing to invade other organs in the body, malignant tumors secrete a chemical that selectively accumulates in distant target tissues, a recent study has shown. Click Here For More Information on Cancer Treatment.
Gene Makes Drinkers More Prone to Colon Cancer
Some one in five Americans have a gene variant that makes them about two to three times more likely to develop colon cancer if they are relatively heavy drinkers, a recent study has found. Click Here For More Information on Cancer Treatment.
Infinitesimal Bundles Obliterate Cancer Cells
How to poison cancer cells without poisoning the rest of the body? Click Here For More Information on Cancer Treatment.
Extra-Virgin Olive Oil a Breast Cancer Medicine?
Biologically active compounds in extra-virgin olive oil have the ability to shrink certain malignant breast tumors, recent research indicates. Click Here For More Information on Cancer Treatment.
Infinitesimal Bundles Obliterate Cancer Cells
How to poison cancer cells without poisoning the rest of the body? That was the key question in a recent study, which appeared in the American Cancer Society’s Nano Letters, in which scientists developed bundles of cancer-cell poison wrapped in a harmless sheath that were so minute they were only one-five-thousandth the width of a human hair. Click Here For More Information on Cancer Treatment.
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