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Prostate Cancer Protection From Statins, Study Says
According to a new study conducted by Duke University Medical Center, cholesterol lowering medicine or statins may be useful in reducing cancer recurrence risk. Those prostate cancer patients, who had had a surgery called radical prostatectomy, could possibly reduce their risk of having their cancer reemerge or recur by taking statins or cholesterol lowering drugs. [...]
Addison Keegan – Brain Tumor Survivor, Thanks To New Technique
This little tyke is only two years old and is already a brain tumor survivor and is now undergoing a new anti cancer technology called the Proton Beam Therapy. According to Dr. Robert Lustig, the director of radiation oncology at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, this new technology is likely to be the new standard [...]
Link Between Brain Tumor And Cell Phone Use ‘Inconclusive’
An international study that has been awaited for a long time now, has found that there is no evidence of increased risk of brain tumors due to mobile phone use. At the conclusion of the decade-long Interphone study, researchers are however saying that the findings were inconclusive and not definitive; that there was need for [...]
Tan Still Desirable, In Spite Of Cancer Risk
One would think that a tan is one aspect of personal vanity that people would choose to eschew in the interests of protecting themselves from cancer risk; but recent surveys have shown that this is not so. In a national survey, it was found that a majority of Americans still think that a tanned look [...]
MRIs – An Effective Cancer Detection Tool
Whole body magnetic resonance or MRI scanning is now being seen as a tool to accurately assess the possible spread of cancer even when there are no other symptoms. MRI scans use powerful magnets to create images of the body, are non-radiating in nature and are therefore safe and non carcinogenic. Using MRIs, it is [...]
Prostate Cancer ‘Vaccine’ Approved By FDA
It is thought that this is a development significant enough to herald a new era in the field of cancer therapy: the approval of the first cancer therapy that looks to use the patient’s own immune system to fight cancerous tumors. The FDA has approved a new drug called Provenge. This drug is also known [...]
Bladder Cancer Risk Doubles With Well Done Meat
It isn’t just the fact that too much meat is not very good for you and your cancer risk; it is also the way in which the meat is cooked that impacts your risk of developing cancer. It would seem that eating your meat rare is a better idea after all! Research now shows that [...]
Deadly Side Effects Of Treatment For Prostate Cancer
Experts are expressing concern that commonly used procedures for treating prostate cancer may be responsible for a deadly side effect: the formation of a potentially life threatening blood clot. A Swedish study found that those men who received hormone treatment were more at risk of developing blood clots. It is thought that hormone therapy is [...]