All Entries in the "Cancer News" Category
Innovative Cancer Screening Uses Labrador to Detect Bowel Cancer
In Japan, researchers have found that it is possible for a Labrador retriever to ‘sniff out’ cancer – bowel cancer was detected by a dog from breath and stool samples with a very high degree of accuracy. The dog trained to sniff out bowel cancer, was used by Hideto Sonoda at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, [...]
Denmark Is Cancer Capital of the World – Why?
Denmark may have one of the best standards of living in the world, but it also has the dubious distinction of being the cancer capital of the world. One of the reasons why the highest rates of cancer in the world are found to be present in Denmark is the fact that when it comes [...]
Researchers Identify Why Some Colorectal Cancers Respond to Therapy While Others Don’t
Researchers have identified the fact that there are those who have certain defective genes that could be responsible for the fact that radiotherapy works for some but not for other colorectal cancer sufferers. Researchers including Dr Laurent Pangon, and Dr Maija Kohonen-Corish found that the defective gene known has MCC had a dual impact of [...]
Michael Douglas Declared ‘Tumor Free’
We have been following the story of 66 year old Oscar winning actor Michael Douglas’ diagnosis of stage 4 throat cancer, as well the treatment options and prognosis of his disease. The latest heartening news on the subject is that 7 weeks of intense radiation and chemotherapy has got rid of the throat tumor and [...]
Blood Test May Revolutionize Cancer Treatment
Researchers are involved in developing a blood test that could be so sensitive as to detect even a single cancer cell, and thereby revolutionize cancer treatment by making very early detection possible. It is being termed a ‘Liquid Biopsy’, this hypersensitive blood test for cancer which could offer cancer sufferers to attack this fatal disease [...]
Smokers Pay No Heed to Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels
Health officials and authorities hoped that they would be able to curb smoking by putting graphic pictures on cigarette packets, which warn of the terrible consequence of smoking. However, images such as a young girl having a coughing fit from smoke, a woman dying of lung cancer as a result of smoking, and a body [...]
Smoking Worsens Cancer Pain, Say Researchers
When cancer is detected in a person who smokes, the first thing they are told is to give up their habit for a number of obvious reasons. And now there is one more reason to give up smoking when cancer is diagnosed – smoking can worsen cancer pain, according to a new study. Different kinds [...]
Folic Acid and Ovarian Cancer Screening – How Do They Affect Cancer Risk?
Ovarian cancer is often known as a silent killer since it can be difficult to detect it in the early stages (less than 20% of ovarian cancers are detected in the early stage before it has spread outside the ovary). And recent news about ovarian cancer is not heartening in that according to researchers at [...]
