Vitamin D Cuts Cancer Risk: Study (HealthDay)
Sunday, June 17th, 2007HealthDay - FRIDAY, June 8 (HealthDay News) — Boosting your vitamin D intakecan dramatically reduce your risk of breast and other cancers, a new studyfound.
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Archive for June, 2007
Private Insurance May Help in Earlier Cancer Detection (HealthDay)
Sunday, June 17th, 2007HealthDay - MONDAY, June 11 (HealthDay News) — Uninsured Americans or thosewith certain types of public health insurance are more likely to have oralor breast cancer diagnosed at an advanced stage, compared to people withprivate insurance whose disease is caught earlier.
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Higher Screening Rates Credited With Drop in ColorectalCancer (HealthDay)
Sunday, June 17th, 2007HealthDay - SUNDAY, June 17 (HealthDay News) — Colorectal cancer is on thedecline in the United States, but doctors aren't declaring victory justyet against the deadly disease.
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CORRECTED:"Chemo brain" unrelated chemotherapy for breast cancer (Reuters)
Sunday, June 17th, 2007Reuters - Drug therapy given before the primary chemotherapy for breast cancer does not appear to worsen mental processes, or "cognitive function," German investigators report in the journal Cancer. Suspicions that it does may have been influenced by cases of mental decline that occurred before treatment began.
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Sunscreens may improve, but shade kids (AP)
Sunday, June 17th, 2007AP - Shade your kids. Strong new evidence suggests overall sun exposure in childhood, not just burns, is a big key to who later develops deadly skin cancer. The news comes as the government is finishing long-awaited rules to improve sunscreens.
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Cancer Risk From Environmental Arsenic Can Last forGenerations (HealthDay)
Sunday, June 17th, 2007HealthDay - TUESDAY, June 12 (HealthDay News) — Decades after residents of aregion in northern Chile were exposed to high levels of arsenic in theirdrinking water, they still suffer from high lung and bladder cancer deathrates, concludes a study by U.S. and Chilean researchers.
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Elderly women fare better with lung cancer: study (Reuters)
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007Reuters - Older women with lung cancer live longer than men the same age, U.S. researchers reported on Saturday, and said their finding suggests that estrogen might affect chemotherapy.
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Ginseng, Flaxseed May Help Cancer Patients (HealthDay)
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007HealthDay - SATURDAY, June 2 (HealthDay News) — Researchers are discoveringglimmers of hope in alternative therapies for various cancers.
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Well known as poison, arsenic can prolong life of leukemia patients (AFP)
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007
AFP - Well known as a poison that can kill, arsenic also can prolong the lives of patients with a rare form of leukemia, a new study out Saturday found.
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Drug doubles survival rate among kidney cancer patients: study (AFP)
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007
AFP - Anticancer drug Avastin, used for treating lung and colon cancer, has led to the doubling of the survival rate of people affected by kidney cancer, according to a new study released Saturday.
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