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We know how green tea has become popular for its anti-cancer ingredients.
Now, Moffitt Cancer Center is looking for volunteers/participants in a green tea study:
Moffitt Cancer Center is looking to recruit and treat 240 men and evaluate safety and effectiveness of Polyphenon E, a drug developed from green tea, in preventing the progression of early signs […]
While cryoablation is working wonders in kidney cancer patients will unoperable tumors, the procedure has been found to offer durable pain relief of cancer that has spread to the bone – according to Mayo Clinic.
According to Matthew Callstrom, M.D., Ph.D., a radiologist at Mayo Clinic who presented his latest findings on cryoablation for pain management […]
This is a difficult week for me. Not only I am trying to wrap up on my blogging commitments before we go out of town on Friday, the weather isn’t cooperating.
The other super typhoon already left but not without pounding North of the Philippines first (our region was almost hit badly if not for it […]
According to a new study led by Duke Prostate Center researchers, — doctors may be missing cancers in obese men because the telltale blood marker (PSA) used to detect prostate cancer can be falsely interpreted as low in this population.
According to Stephen Freedland, M.D., a Duke urologist and senior researcher on the study:
“Obese men have […]
CBD, a compound found in Cannabis Sativa (or marijuana) may prove to be effective in helping stop the spread of breast cancer cells throughout the body.
Such were the findings by scientists at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute. CBD could be the first non-toxic agent to show promise in treating metastatic forms of breast […]
According to a new study in mice (led by Zhenhua Liu from Tufts University), moderate deficiency of folate, riboflavin, and vitamins B6 and B12 together may promote the risk of DNA damage and increase the risk of colorectal cancers.
The researchers, led by Zhenhua Liu from Tufts University, studied the Wnt pathway - a cellular signalling […]
We almost had the super typhoon Mina (international name: Mitag), thank God it changed its course.
Yesterday’s forecast was almost sure that Mina will hit the Philippines’ Bicol region (where I am!). And then we lost electricity for the whole day, making us panic, like it was a confirmation that the typhoon will land at us.
But […]
Multiple myeloma is a cancer that occurs in the blood-making cells of bone marrow.
Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania recently announced the fndings from two large, international clinical trials: with the oral drug lenalidomide (REVLIMID®), in combination with the steroid dexamethasone, patients significantly improved by all measures where previous treatments had failed.
A product […]
The Digene® HPV Test is the only such test approved by the FDA that uses advanced molecular technology to detect the DNA (genetic material) of 13 high-risk types of HPV (the virus shown to actually cause virtually all cases of cervical cancer.)
Approved by the FDA in 2003 for cervical cancer screening in conjunction with […]
Frequent consumption of foods containing the flavonoid kaempferol, including nonherbal tea and broccoli and consumption of large amounts of the flavonoid luteolin, which is found in foods such as carrots, peppers, and cabbage – have been found associated with a reduced risk of ovarian cancer.
Such were the findings of a new research from the Channing […]
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Written by Gloria Gamat [email] for b5media.
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