Washington, July 21 : In a new study, scientists found that men who had a history of asthma or eczema generally had a lower risk of developing cancer.
Researchers at INRS–Institute Armand-Frappier, the Research Centre of the Centre hospitalier de l”Université de Montréal, and McGill University, analyzed information that was collected in a study on exposures [...]
Washington, June 30 : For the past 40 years, researchers were trying to understand why asbestos causes cancer and now the mystery has been unravelled.
Researchers led by Drs. Haining Yang and Michele Carbone at the University of Hawai”i Cancer Research Center, found that when asbestos kills cells, it does so by inducing a process called [...]
New York, May 24 : Suffering from an allergy? Well, here’s something to cheer about—you are less likely to get cancer if you are tormented by runny noses, itchy eyes and coughs, according to a series of surprising new scientific studies.
Texas Tech researchers revealed that asthmatics were 30 percent less likely to get ovarian cancer [...]
Washington, May 22 : People who have type 2 diabetes are at increased risk for developing 24 types of cancer, according to a new study.
Kari Hemminki of DKFZ collaborated with colleagues in Sweden and the United States to carry out the largest study ever on cancer risks of people with type 2 diabetes.
The study included [...]
Washington May 4 : Two cups of coffee a day can lower the risk of uterine cancer, claims Mayo Clinic research.
Uterine cancer is the most common cancer for women’’s reproductive organs.
According to the American Cancer Society, last year, 42,160 new cases were diagnosed, and it caused 7,780 deaths.
The research found that, among the 20,000 women [...]
Washington, April 7 : A new study has shown that eating more fruit and vegetables has only a modest effect on protecting against cancer.
An analysis by Mount Sinai researchers of over eight years of dietary data from more than 400,000 people has found that the relationship between high consumption of fruits and vegetables and a [...]
Sydney, Mar 15 (ANI): Health experts have warned that unjustified use of CT scans is increasingly becoming a reason behind cancers.
A latest medical research has claimed that more than 400 new cases of cancer a year in Australia occur due to diagnostic radiology.
However, it has not reduced the number of computerised tomography scans growing about [...]
London, Feb 21 (ANI): British scientists have invented a machine which can “smell” cancer.
Brainchild of academics at Cranfield University in Bedfordshire, the Breathotron detects chemical changes in a patient’s breath, which doctors say could show they have a tumour and give an earlier diagnosis than is possible now, reports The Mirror.
Professor Hugh Barr, who is [...]
Washington, Feb 19 (ANI): The natural compound sceptrin, which is found in marine sponges, reduces cancer cell motility (movement) and has very low toxicity, researchers have found.
Investigators at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham, formerly Burnham Institute for Medical Research) led by Kristiina Vuori, M.D., Ph.D., made the discovery.
Metastasis is one of the deadliest aspects of [...]
Washington, Feb 19 (ANI): Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center scientists have developed personalized blood tests for cancer using whole genome sequencing.
Boffins have used data from the whole genome sequencing of cancer patients to develop individualized blood tests they believe can help physicians tailor patients” treatments. The genome-based blood tests, believed to be the first of [...]