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According to a study newly published in the open access journal BMC Cancer, eating fatty food does not seem to increase the risk of skin cancer; contradicting previous research. This latest study even showed that high fat intake may even play a protective role in the development of non-melanoma skin cancer.
Skin melanoma is the aggressive […]
First of all, I am not not new to B5media. I was the former author of Filipina Soul. I am a single mom and a Chemist turned full-time problogger recently…and so science blogging has rubbed in on this filipina soul. Currently I have two other science blogs: Straight From the Doc and The Pharm Voice.
With […]
A new cigarette tax is being proposed and awaiting signature from Hawaii’s governor. This tax will be valid for 6 years. Hawaiian smokers can expect to pay 20 cents each pack each year.
About 1/3 of the tax will go to build a new cancer research center for University of Hawaii in Kakaako, 1/4 will […]
Epidemiologists from the American Cancer Society published a study that links postmenopausal obesity with breast cancer risk. The study suggests that 60-pound or more weight gain correlated with 3 times increase in risk of “most deadly forms of breast cancer,” according to a Fox News report of this study.
Weight gain in general poses a risk […]
UK male deaths from skin cancer (melanoma) had risen 31% in the past ten years to over 1000 deaths a year.
More men than women die of melanoma because the cancer is detected at advanced stages, and men may be less aware of changes in moles than women are.
In Britain, each year almost 2000 people (almost […]
Researchers at the Rutgers University in New Jersey have found that when they make mice continue on running wheels while exposing the mice to ultraviolet B light (UVB), these exercising mice took longer to develop skin tumors, and when tumors do develop, the tumors were smaller and fewer in number than mice that did not […]
Each year, over 800 women in Australia die from ovarian cancer. That may not “sound like a large number”, but considering how often this disease is diagnosed at an advanced stage because patients are often “asymptomatic” (without symptoms), a test that allows earlier ovarian cancer detection is important.
HealthLinx is an Australian biotech company that had […]
… clinicians may overlook lung cancer in women because they expected to see symptoms of lung obstruction as a possibility to lung cancer.
Given how lung cancer is now the leading cancer-related death in women, it’s important to help clinicians become aware that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is not as tightly linked to lung cancer […]
I can see how choosing in vitro fertilization when one has no fertility problems can make sense when it means a woman can get the embryos genetically tested.
A woman who carries the retinoblastoma gene (abbreviated as “Rb”) did exactly this. She chose to get the embryo that did not carry the Rb gene implanted into […]
Soraya was a pioneering artist who first recorded songs in both Spanish and English, and won a Latin Grammy for her work. She died of breast cancer at the age of 37 today in Florida. Her mother, aunt, and grandmother died of the same disease.
Soraya was diagnosed with Stage 3 (advanced) disease in June […]
Cancer therapies, healing, and society.
Written by Gloria Gamat [email] for b5media.
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