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Consuming a high-quality diet is associated with lower risk of pancreatic cancer 17 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm
Previous studies investigating the relationship between food and nutrient intake and pancreatic cancer have yielded inconsistent results. The U.S. Government issues evidence-based dietary guidelines t...
Chemotherapy before radiotherapy for testicular cancer could reduce long-term side-effects 17 Aug 2013 | 06:15 pm
The new pilot study, published in the August issue of the Annals of Oncology, tested a new treatment in a pilot study of men with stage IIA and IIB testicular seminoma — where the cancer has spread to...
Tumors form advance teams to ready lungs for spread of cancer 17 Aug 2013 | 12:30 am
In lung cancer, the formation of that niche likely involves immune cells and moderate levels of VEGF and other molecules that promote the formation of new blood vessels, or angiogenesis. But little is...
How DNA repair helps prevent cancer 17 Aug 2013 | 12:30 am
Understanding how the human body recognizes damaged DNA and initiates repair fascinates Michael Feig, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Michigan State University. Feig studies the pro...
Aggressive lymphoma: Low doses of approved drug switches on pathway that allows chemotherapy to kill cancer 17 Aug 2013 | 12:30 am
Researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, who led the study published in Cancer Discovery, say their strategy has the potential to change the standard of care f...
In nonsmoking women, breastfeeding for more than six months may protect against breast cancer 16 Aug 2013 | 08:30 am
To look at the relationship between breast cancer and certain aspects of pregnancy and breastfeeding, Emilio González-Jiménez, PhD, of the University of Granada in Spain, and his colleagues analyzed t...
Finasteride: Long-term survival of participants in prostate cancer prevention trial detailed 16 Aug 2013 | 07:15 am
New findings reported in NEJM on August 15, 2013, based on follow-up of trial participants for up to 18 years, showed that survival of the men on finasteride was equivalent to men who did not take the...
Sexual health for postmenopausal women improved by hypnotic relaxation therapy 16 Aug 2013 | 06:45 am
The study, which examined sexual comfort, sexual satisfaction and sexual pleasure, is a first step toward a safe and effective alternative toward hormone replacement therapy, which carries associated ...
Celery, artichokes contain flavonoids that kill human pancreatic cancer cells 16 Aug 2013 | 06:15 am
"Apigenin alone induced cell death in two aggressive human pancreatic cancer cell lines. But we received the best results when we pre-treated cancer cells with apigenin for 24 hours, then applied the ...
Shining stem cells reveals how our skin is maintained 16 Aug 2013 | 02:15 am
The results have just been published in the journal Cell Stem Cell. New knowledge challenge stem cell models The skin consists of many different cell types, including hair cells, fat- and sweat glan...
