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Children with cancer are at a real risk for bone problems (including bone necrosis and fractures related to osteoporosis) in their lifetime as a combined effect of sedentary behaviors due to their chronic illness and inhibition of bone growth and mineralization as side effects of treatments.
… there are two factors that negatively effect bone turnover […]
Once Massachussets Governor Deval Patrick’s new proposal goes through, Merck’s cervical cancer vaccine - Gardasil - will be given free to girls in Massachussets aged 9- 18.
Unlike Texas, this is however NOT mandatory.
Patrick states that the new investments would save lives and reduce future treatment costs.
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Even early stage lung cancer can be moderately detected by a breath test.
The test comprises a chemical colour sensor, which detects tiny changes in the unique chemical signature of the breath of people with lung cancer.
Metabolic changes in lung cancer cells cause changes in the production and processing of volatile organic compounds, which are then […]
Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is one of the most common treatments for prostate cancer.
ADT works by blocking the level of circulating androgens (male hormones) – the ones that can fuel the growth of prostate cancers.
According to a research team from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and other institutions, ADT may increase the risk […]
The wonder drug Herceptin is the primary treatment for HER2-positive breast cancer. The 25 -30 % of breast cancer patients with this class of tumor do not all respond to Herceptin.
However, better treatment options can be determined if breast cancer patients can be evaluated of how they would respond to Herceptin.
Research teams from Harvard and Yale […]
Supporting previous findings from Greece and Italy, a research study in Long Island, New York led by Brian Fink from the University of North Carolina found that a flavonoid and lignan-rich diet could reduce the risk of developing breast cancer in postmenopausal women by 35%.
For postmenopausal women with an average intake of flavonols of more […]
When I was pregnant with my son, I remember not always being too happy when popping too many pills on a daily basis: vitamin-B complex with iron, folic acid, mutivitamin…the works, when you are pregnant.
But whenever i tell myself that the benefits will go to my baby and not to me, that was enough for me […]
Biologists from Boston College have identified KetoCal (a commercially available high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet designed to treat epilepsy in children) as a diet-based alternative method of treating brain cancer.
Ketocal has been found to significantly decrease the growth of brain tumors in laboratory mice.
According to Tom Seyfried, Boston College Biology Professor:
“KetoCal represents a novel alternative therapy for […]
Dietary data of over 36,000 women and 45,000 men analyzed in Sweden revealed that high intakes of vitamin A (retinol, alpha- and beta –carotene) may reduce the risk of gastric cancer by as much as 44%.
Stomach cancer is the fourth most frequent cancer in the world, according to the European School of Oncology, and there […]
A relatively new cancer drug – Avastin (bevacizumab) – currently used in treatment of lung and colorectal cancers, has recently been found to slow the growth of the most common and deadly form of brain cancer -gliomas.
Such is the finding of a Duke University Medical Center pilot study in which the researchers tested the effectiveness […]
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Written by Gloria Gamat [email] for b5media.
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