All Entries in the "Cancer News" Category
Veggies To Prevent Lung Cancer?
A new study with a nine year follow up has shown that those smokers who have the greatest variety of fruit and vegetables in their diet cut their risk of lung cancer by 23%. Each type of fruit and vegetable that the smokers consumed was seen to cut their risk of getting lung cancer by [...]
Watercress For Protection Against Cancer
Watercress has cancer fighting properties, found scientists at Southampton University and it hence joins the list of foods that are known to have certain special properties. Researchers found that water cress has cancer fighting properties; that watercress extract inhibits the growth of breast cancer cells and also helps fight against the recurrence of the disease. [...]
Breast Cancer Rates Four Times Higher In Britain Than East Africa
It is a telling indictment of western lifestyles that rates of breast cancer are so much higher in developed nations when compared with less developed countries. According to a recent report, 4 times as many women in Britain have breast cancer as their counterparts in East African countries such as Tanzania and Kenya. Even other [...]
New Cancer Treatment For Teen With Cancer
A pioneering new operation conducted in Italy for a British teenager could possibly hold out hope for a number of cancer sufferers and their parents worldwide. A new windpipe grown from her own stem cells has freed the teenager from a rare form of cancer of the trachea. This cancer patient would have died without [...]
Cold Cuts Increase Bladder Cancer Risk
We have been told for a long time that cured deli meat or cold cuts such as sausages, bacon, salami etc are not good for us as they are high in sodium, and have a lot of fillers, hence are not as nutritionally beneficial as uncured meat. And now an American study has found that [...]
Mole Or Malignancy – How To Tell One From The Other
This article offers useful insight into harmless skin moles and dangerous and malignant skin cancers and tells you how to differentiate between a harmless mole and a malignant skin cancer. Skin cancer is the most common kind of cancer in the United States, with one in five Americans expected to develop it at some state [...]
New Approach To Killing Cancer Cells
The reason that cancers are so dangerous, so harmful for the body and also so difficult to get rid of is the fact that cancer cells are different from normal cells. According to researcher Weihang Chai of the Washington State University School of Molecular Biosciences, cancer cells can divide forever and live forever. Whereas other cells [...]
Fight Your Cancer By Socializing
A new study has suggested an unusual cure for cancer – socializing! Changing your lifestyle to keep company with more people could help people combat their cancer better and see considerable improvements in their condition, say researchers connected with the study. The findings are unusual in that they indicate something contrary to accepted medical knowledge [...]
