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Vitamin D May Not Help Lower a Woman’s Breast Cancer Risk
When studies came out showing that women with breast cancer tended to have low levels of vitamin D, doctors hoped that boosting vitamin D in women could reduce their breast cancer risk.
But in a study of more than 36,000 women, those taking daily supplements of vitamin D had the same risk of developing breast cancer […]
Paul Newman’s Death Casts Spotlight on Lung Cancer
Lung cancer has been thrust into the spotlight again after the death of legendary actor and philanthropist Paul Newman at the age of 83.
Newman died Friday only a few months after pictures surfaced of him looking frail and thin as he was wheeled from the Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City, where […]
We Can Stop The Cancer Epidemic
There is an epidemic of cancer today. One in three Americans will be diagnosed with cancer, often before the age of 65. I have been on the wrong side of this statistic since I was 31 years old, when I discovered I had brain cancer.
Since 1940, we have seen in Western societies a marked and […]
Use Of Viruses Destroy Cancer Cells
Canadian researchers report a significant breakthrough in the use of viruses to target and destroy cancer cells, a field known as oncolytic virotherapy.
The research team, led by Dr. John Hiscott of McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine and the Lady Davis Institute and Dr. John C. Bell and colleagues at the University of Ottawa and Ottawa […]
Colon Cancer Patients Lack Follow-Up Care
Many colon cancer patients aren’t getting the screenings recommended after surgery to make sure the disease hasn’t returned, new research shows.
Only about 40 percent of the 4,426 older patients in the study got all the doctor visits, blood tests and the colonoscopy advised in the three years after cancer surgery, according to the results released […]
New Method of Diagnose Bowel Cancer
A new method of diagnosing bowel cancer using ‘light’ may soon be available, according to researchers from Queen’s University, Belfast.
The ideas were presented at the British Pharmaceutical Conference in Manchester.
A photosensitive drug, which is attracted specifically to cancer cells, is put onto the body.
When a blue light is applied to the area, it activates the […]
Colon Cancer Symptoms Often Ignored
Though New Zealand’s second highest cancer killer is colorectal, people often ignore symptoms of the disease and pay no attention to keeping their bowel healthy, Dunedin gasteroenterologist Dr Michael Schultz says.
The disease causes about 1200 deaths a year.
Dr Schultz said surgeons from overseas who came to New Zealand were surprised at the number of advanced […]
Could a Blood Transfusion be a Cure for Cancer ?
Could common white blood cells fight some of the most aggressive cancers? Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center plan a human trial to find out.
They will take white blood cells called granulocytes from people whose granulocytes have shown a strong ability to fight cancer and transfuse those cells into cancer patients.
Such transfusions have […]
NCI Grant Launches Clinical Trials For Colon Cancer Screening
A Northwestern University biomedical engineer who has developed optical technology shown to be effective for the early detection of colon cancer has received a $7.5 million grant over five years from the National Cancer Institute to further study an instrument that potentially could become a routine colon cancer screening test and to launch large-scale clinical […]