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Coffee may reduce risk of liver cancer
• Cancer • Feb 16 05
Habitual coffee drinking seems to be associated with a lower risk of developing liver cancer, according to a study conducted in Japan and reported…
New test could improve bladder cancer detection
• Cancer • Feb 16 05
Bladder cancer could be more readily spotted - and therefore cured - with a new urine assay that provides same-day results, according to a…
Zinc Deficiency Linked to Increased Risk of Less
• Cancer • Feb 16 05
Researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, have found that zinc deficiency in humans is associated with…
Can Coffee Protect Against Common Cancers?
• Cancer • Feb 16 05
There’s more good news for the roughly 100 million Americans who couldn’t imagine getting through the day without their coffee fix. Recent studies have…
How to decrease your risk for cervical cancer
• Cancer • Feb 14 05
Are you getting appropriate cervical cancer screening? Dr. Judith Reichman explains simple tests that can aid prevention
Last year, 10,000 women in the United…
Cancer Patient Who Killed Self May Have Missed All-Clear Letter
• Cancer • Feb 14 05
British officials say a cancer patient who hanged himself may not have received a letter sent by doctors, saying he was clear of…
Vets to get cancer care in Indy
• Cancer • Feb 12 05
Regional official says treatment there costs less, but there’s no system to decide who will be referred.
Some local veterans with cancer who would…
Cancer raises blood clot risk by sevenfold
• Cancer • Feb 08 05
Cancer greatly increases the risk that the patients will develop a blood clot in a vein (venous thrombosis), especially in recently diagnosed patients, patients…
How an AIDS-Related Cancer Unleashes Inflammation
• Cancer • Feb 07 05
Although new HIV treatments have drastically reduced the incidence of Kaposi’s sarcoma in developed countries, it remains a health threat in many developing countries.…
Clues on cancer from a zebrafish model of melanoma
• Cancer • Feb 07 05
Melanoma, the most lethal form of skin cancer, is an epidemic among cancers; it claims thousands of lives every year. Despite advances in cancer…
Birth size linked to some adult cancers
• Cancer • Feb 07 05
Bigger babies seem to have a greater risk of developing certain cancers as adults, a new study finds.
Dr. Valeria A. McCormack from…
Sunlight may have unexpected anti-cancer effects
• Cancer • Feb 07 05
Two new studies suggest that exposure to sunlight might not be as risky for cancer as is generally believed.
Scandinavian researchers show that high…
Vaccine Fights Deadly Cancer
• Cancer • Feb 04 05
Kidney cancer strikes more than 36,000 Americans a year, killing nearly 13,000. While it is curable if caught and removed early, when it spreads,…
European cancer patients using alternative therapy
• Cancer • Feb 03 05
Whether it is herbs, homeopathy or vitamin and mineral supplements, more than one third of cancer patients in Europe use alternative medicines.
Usage varies…
Red meat linked to one type of colon cancer
• Cancer • Feb 02 05
Women who eat more red meat appear more likely to develop cancer in the lower part of the colon, but not in the upper…
Cervical cancer vaccine expected in a few years
• Cancer • Feb 01 05
A vaccine that could prevent young women from developing most cases of cervical cancer could be on the market within a few years.
Researchers…
Viruses, X-rays join U.S. list of cancer agents
• Cancer • Feb 01 05
Viruses, X-rays and compounds found in grilled meats joined the official list of known or suspected cancer-causing agents released on Monday.
The list,…
Age a factor in cervical cancer treatment
• Cancer • Jan 28 05
Elderly women with invasive cervical carcinoma are less likely to receive aggressive treatment than younger patients, and are more likely to die from the…
Race a factor in pancreatic cancer surgery
• Cancer • Jan 28 05
It’s known that African Americans have an elevated risk of pancreatic cancer, but new study findings show they may also be less likely to…
Calcium cuts women’s colorectal cancer risk
• Cancer • Jan 28 05
Diets rich in calcium reduce women’s risk of colorectal cancer, and women who also take calcium supplements can cut their risk even more, researchers…
No evidence of “cancer personality”: study
• Cancer • Jan 24 05
Being open and easy-going can win you friends, and it probably won’t raise your cancer risk either, according to a study published Monday.
The…
Pollutants blamed for most kids’ cancers in UK
• Cancer • Jan 21 05
Exposure to high-temperature combustion products and volatile organic compounds before birth and shortly after probably cause most cases of childhood cancers and leukemias, a…
Bananas, root veggies may cut kidney cancer risk
• Cancer • Jan 21 05
People who like their bananas, carrots and beets may have a lower risk of developing kidney cancer than those who turn their noses up…
U.S. cancer survival rates rising - report
• Cancer • Jan 20 05
More Americans than ever before are surviving cancer and rates in general are falling, mostly because fewer people are smoking, the American Cancer Society…
Pomegranate extract blocks skin tumors in mice
• Cancer • Jan 20 05
Pomegranate fruit extract (PFE) can block skin tumor formation in mice exposed to a cancer-causing agent, according to a report in the International Journal…