All Entries in the "Cancer News" Category
A Tumor Melting Virus? What’s That?
While most of us view the term ‘virus’ with distaste and distrust, here is now a virus that could actually be beneficial to human beings.
A recent study has displayed heartening results in human trials that a particularly virus can destroy cancer cells and leave normal healthy cells of the body unharmed.
The virus is seen to [...]
Occupational Sunlight May Cut Kidney Cancer Risk In Men
A study that is hitherto the largest on the subject, examined the link between occupational sun exposure and lowered kidney cancer risk.
This is with reference to occupational sun exposure or the kind of sun exposure that a man would likely have in the course of his occupation.
This is another study that illustrates the possible use [...]
Cancer Society Warns Against Over-Treating Prostate Cancer
There has long been debate about the efficacy or indeed the requirement of prostate cancer testing and now the American Cancer Society has issued fresh screening recommendations about screening for prostate cancer.
Durango Brooks, the society’s director of prostate and colorectal cancers called for informed decision making among doctors as well as patients as regards prostate [...]
Preventing Brain Cancer Recurrence May Be Possible
Now researchers at the Stanford School of medicine may hold out fresh hope for those who have a deadly form of brain cancer called glioblastoma. According to this report, the study has been carried out on mice and may be a significant development for humans as well.
This type of brain cancer is seen to show [...]
Motherhood Possible After Ovary Transplant In Cancer Patient
In tale that will possibly give hope and courage to many, Denmark’s Stinne Holm Bergholdt, who was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a type of bone cancer, has subsequently given birth to two babies.
According to the reports, she has become the first woman in the world to give birth twice after an ovary transplant.
When she learned [...]
Bitter Melon May Offer Cancer Cure
Researchers found that the much disliked vegetable, the bitter melon, known in many areas also as the bitter gourd, may offer a new option for cancer treatments.
The vegetable, used widely in parts of South America, India and China, may protect from breast cancer.
The extract of the vegetable has long been available in health food stores [...]
Less Is More With Breast Cancer Treatment?
It is now being found that those women who had higher doses of radiation over a shorter duration (over three weeks) found as much benefit in the therapy as did others who received radiation over longer durations (5 weeks of treatment). According to the research, there is an equal efficacy of the shorter duration.
The shorter [...]
World Cancer Day Focuses On Cancer-Infection Link
With there being a widespread recommendation to use the HPV vaccine to prevent cervical cancer and hepatitis B vaccine to prevent liver cancer, there is now an increasing focus among oncologists to try and understand the way that certain infections increase the risk of certain cancers.
The recently concluded World Cancer Day, focused on the issue [...]
