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According to information released at the recent International Union Against Cancer (UICC) World Cancer Congress 2006, cancer prevention must become a higher priority in public and private sectors worldwide in order to have a fighting chance against the cancer pandemic.
Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop joined public health, economic and business leaders from […]
From the results of an ongoing study started in 1993 by the International Early Lung Cancer Action Program (I-ELCAP) published 11th July in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reinforced the conclusion that women who smoke are at higher risk for developing lung cancer than male smokers.
Laurie Fenton, president of the Lung Cancer […]
In a process known as metastasis, a cancer cell separates from a primary tumor then settles in a new location where it will again divide. Typically, pharmaceutical companies use simple two-dimensional assays for the process of metastasis in order to evaluate anti-cancer therapeutics.
However, in these two-dimensional assays, cells crawl across the matrix surface, traveling […]
According to an article published in the 12th July issue of JAMA, weight gain after menopause is linked to increased risk of breast cancer in women.
Weight loss after menopause is said to lower circulating estrogen hormones in women. Estrogen is directly related to breast cancer. Therefore weight loss (low estrogen) is thought to decrease risk […]
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Thanks to Hsien-Hsien Lei for the opportunity.
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Male breast cancer is a rare disease usually undiagnosed until it’s in an advanced stage. Now, medical oncologists across the United States are seeking to know whether a certain drug combination can slow the progression of male breast cancer.
The drug anastrozole (Arimidex) is currently approved by the USFDA for treating breast cancer in postmenopausal women, […]
An experimental work at Hebrew University of Jerusalem aimed at improving the quality of fruit led to the discovery of a promising new avenue of drug treatment for stopping the growth and spread of cancer cells in animals as well as humans.
The strategy involves isolating the malignant tumor from its nutritional and oxygen supplies (thereby […]
According to a study by scientists for the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, a protein that allows breast cancer cells to evade the body’s natural immune responses could be a target of future cancer therapies.
The study is the first to identify how a protein called EphB4 sitting on the cell […]
Though it is widely known that aspirin (and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDS) use may reduce the risk of colorectal cancer by up to 40%, this may not extend to long-term smokers who are already at an increased risk of the disease.
These are the conclusions derived from a population-based study led by researchers at […]
A study from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center revealed that women who survive childhood cancer are more likely to begin menopause earlier than most women.
Researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Center in New York City studied the incidence and risk factors of early menopause in over 2,800 women who had cancer as children.
They compared the data of […]
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