Smokers who are exposed to wood smoke, either through home heating and cooking or through ambient neighborhood pollution, are not only at increased risk of COPD, but are also more likely to have epigenetic changes in the DNA that further increase their risk of COPD and related pulmonary problems. Together, smoking, wood smoke exposure and [...]
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Polyphenols in Red Wine and Green Tea Halt Prostate Cancer Growth, Study Suggests
July 16th, 2010 In what could lead to a major advance in the treatment of prostate cancer, scientists now know exactly why polyphenols in red wine and green tea inhibit cancer growth. This new discovery, published online in The FASEB Journal, explains how antioxidants in red wine and green tea produce a combined effect to disrupt an important [...]
Olive-Oil Enriched Diet Helps Breast Cancer Survivors Lose More Weight
July 1st, 2010 Researchers from The Miriam Hospital have found that olive oil may offer another potential health benefit — it produces greater weight loss in breast cancer survivors compared to a more traditional low-fat diet. The findings may be of significance to women with breast cancer, since excess weight at the time of diagnosis, or even moderate [...]
Substance in Breast Milk Kills Cancer Cells, Study Suggests
June 25th, 2010 A substance found in breast milk can kill cancer cells, reveal studies carried out by researchers at Lund University and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Although the special substance, known as HAMLET (Human Alpha-lactalbumin Made LEthal to Tumour cells), was discovered in breast milk several years ago, it is only now that it has been [...]
New Tool to Help Study Prostate Cancer Developed
March 26th, 2010 Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) researchers have developed a new method to better study the cells that line and protect the prostate in relation to the development of cancer. Using the model, they found that normal cells and cancer cells depend on different factors to survive, which could aid in discovering how to target cancer [...]
A Golden Bullet for Cancer
March 15th, 2010 In a lecture he delivered in 1906, the German physician Paul Ehrlich coined the term Zuberkugel, or “magic bullet,” as shorthand for a highly targeted medical treatment. Magic bullets, also called silver bullets, because of the folkloric belief that only silver bullets can kill supernatural creatures, remain the goal of drug development efforts today. A [...]
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Comments OffHRT – A Chance for developing lung cancer
March 9th, 2010 The women taking HRT for more than ten years has higher chance for developing lung cancer. Even-thought the chance is “duration dependent” there is no researchers report about the acceptable consumption of HRT. According to recent research the women consuming estrogen plus progestin HRT for ten or more years has 50% more chance for developing [...]
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