Oncology & Cancer Articles & Stories
40% of Men Who Test Negative for Prostate Cancer May Have It
Forty percent of men with prostate cancer may be unaware that they have it, according to research conducted by the Prostate Cancer Foundation in Chicago. The study found that the standard office biopsy procedure is often inadequate for proper detection of the disease. Read More
Pomegranates' Promise Against Cancer
A 2008 study at the University of California at Los Angeles demonstrated that a type of antioxidant found in pomegranates may contribute to prostate health. Now another study published in Cancer Prevention Research may show that the antioxidants found in pomegranites may also inhibit the deve... Read More
Understanding and Halting the Process of Metastasis
In preparation of a full-scale invasion of other organs within the body, malignant tumors secrete a chemical that selectively accumulates in distant target tissues, according to research published in the journal Cancer Cell. The chemical then attracts certain bone-marrow-derived cells that att... Read More
Gene Increases Drinkers' Susceptibility to Colon Cancer
Nearly one in five Americans possesses a gene variant that increases their risk of colon cancer about two to three times if they are relatively heavy drinks, according to recent research. Study co-author Helmut Seitz says that if someone is a chronic alcohol drinker and fit a certain genetic p... Read More
Breast Cancer Surgery Stressing Cosmetics Over Cures?
Recent innovations in breast cancer surgery that allow doctors to minimize postsurgical breast deformities may be stressing cosmetic outcomes to the detriment of actual rates of cure, a senior physician warned recently. We must ensure that surgical approaches designed to improve cosmetic outco... Read More
Seven Cervical-Cancer Falsehoods Debunked
Though the incidence of cervical cancer among women (12,000 are estimated will be diagnosed with the disorder this year) is hardly as great as, say, breast cancer (207,000) or lung cancer (105,000), fully 1.2 million women will contract the pre-cancerous disorder known as dysplasia. Without tr... Read More
Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Used on Brain Tumors
A fine dust of iron oxide targets brain cancer cells in mice and dramatically lengthens the animal's life, a new study shows. And when the nanoparticles are coated with an antibiotic agent, the beneficial effect is even more dramatic. The dust, because it is magnetic, has the added advantage o... Read More
Olive Oil Found to Help Fight and Prevent Breast Cancer
Extra-virgin olive oil contains biologically active compounds that have the capacity to shrink certain malignant breast tumors, according to recent research. The study, performed at the Catalan Institute of Oncology in Girona, Spain, focused on tumor tissue in laboratory culture that was expos... Read More
Acupuncture Beats Drug Therapy for Treating Hot Flashes
Acupuncture therapy performs as well and lasts longer when compared to drug therapy in treating the hot flashes and sweating that afflicts 80 percent of breast cancer patients. Researchers have found that acupuncture treatment has none of the unpleasant side-effects that result from traditiona... Read More
New Hope for Bone Cancer Patients
Bone cancer is a very rare condition, but until the last several years, if it was diagnosed in a limb, it meant certain amputation. But with the introduction of internal prosthetics that can replace diseased bone, everything has changed. Surgeons now have the capacity to reconstruct diseased b... Read More
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