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Soybeans soaked in warm water naturally release key cancer-fighting substance

Soybeans soaking in warm water could become a new "green" source for production of a cancer-fighting substance now manufactured in a complicated and time-consuming industrial process, scientists are reporting ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Nano-technology uses virus' coats to fool cancer cells

While there have been major advances in the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of tumors within the brain, brain cancer continues to have a very low survival rate in part to high levels of resistance to treatment. New research ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mobile phones 'don't cause cancer': yet another study

Scientific evidence goes increasingly against the theory that mobile phones cause cancer, a new study has concluded.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 02, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Lung cancer scans: False alarms amid lives saved

(AP) -- Full results of a big study that showed some smokers' lives could be saved by screening with lung scans now reveal more clearly what the risks are: There's a good chance of a false alarm.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cancer death rate gap widens based on education

(AP) -- The gap in cancer death rates between college graduates and those who only went to high school is widening, the American Cancer Society reported Friday.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New chemo regimen helps children with neuroblastoma

A new high-dose chemotherapy regimen has been shown to improve survival of children with high-risk neuroblastoma, a common pediatric cancer, according to a European clinical trial published Sunday.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

CDC predicts smoking bans in every state by 2020

(AP) -- By 2020, every state may have bans on smoking in restaurants, bars and the workplace, federal health officials predicted Thursday, based on the current pace of adopting anti-smoking laws.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Booze a major cause of cancer in Europe: study

About one in 10 cancers in men and one in 33 in women in western European countries are caused by current and past alcohol consumption, according to a study released Friday.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

CML patients on imatinib have similar mortality rates to general population

Patients taking imatinib (Gleevec) for CML, or chronic myelogenous leukemia, and in remission after two years of treatment, have a mortality rate similar to that of the general population according to a study published online ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New functional understanding outlines therapy for untreatable breast cancer

Cancer biologists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research have been part of a collaborative effort that identified a novel rationale for the treatment of currently not curable triple-negative ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Screening for cervical cancer low for immigrant women

Immigrant women in Ontario are not screened for cervical cancer as often as native-born Canadians, with the lowest rates being among older, poorer South Asians, new research shows.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Expert questions Lansley's key arguments for NHS reform

England's health secretary Andrew Lansley has said that his reforms for the NHS are needed because the country's health outcomes are among the poorest in Europe. But in an article published in the British Medical Journal ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cancer costs projected to reach at least $158 billion in 2020

Based on growth and aging of the U.S. population, medical expenditures for cancer in the year 2020 are projected to reach at least $158 billion (in 2010 dollars) – an increase of 27 percent over 2010, ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Living in certain neighborhoods increases the chances older men and women will develop cancer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Older people who live in racially segregated neighborhoods with high crime rates have a much higher chance of developing cancer than do older people with similar health histories and income levels who live ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Colorectal cancer survival advantage in MUTYH-associated polyposis

Survival for colorectal cancer patients with MUTYH-associated polyposis was statistically significantly better than for patients with colorectal cancer from the general population, according to a recent study published online ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 02, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0