New research to be published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology has found a higher incidence of gynaecological cancers (uterine, ovarian and cervical cancer) in urban areas of Egypt, as compared to rural areas. The research found that the incidence of uterine cancer among urban women was six times higher [...]

Researchers have found a new oncogenic signaling pathway by which the environmental toxin arsenic may lead to adverse health effects, including bladder cancer. These study results are published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Oncogenesis is the process of malignant transformation leading to the formation of a cancer or tumor [...]

Studies of green tea have found that the health benefits include cancer prevention, that green tea components can promote death of cancerous cells, that it has positive impacts on depression and weight loss.
New a new study from the Chinese University of Hong Kong suggests drinking green tea often may be good for the [...]

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Personalized cancer blood test offers hope to researchers
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US researchers have modified blood tests that would enable them in knowing if the cancer treatment being given to a patient was working or if the disease has come back. Tumor DNA rearrangements are identified by the test. …
New Test Tells if Cancer Has [...]

Seeks to reduce radiation
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced an initiative to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from three types of medical imaging procedures: computed tomography (CT), nuclear medicine studies, and fluoroscopy. These procedures are the greatest contributors to total radiation exposure within the U.S. population and use much higher radiation doses than other [...]

Just two or more soft drinks per week significantly increased the risk of the deadly cancer.
Pancreatic cancer is a deadly disease. Each year in the United States, about 35,000 people die from the pancreatic cancer. Less than 5 percent of those diagnosed are still alive five years after diagnosis, and complete remission is [...]

Dutch scientists from the University of the Netherlands are reporting on research that the naturally occurring flavanoid apigenin may help prevent leukemia, according to Reuters news.
Apigenin is found in several herbs like parsley, thyme, peppermint. chamomile, and others. It is also found in red wine and tomato sauce.
A 2009 study by Dr. Margaret A. [...]

Medical College of Georgia researchers are seeking to refine cancer treatment with an anti-inflammatory plant derivative long used in Chinese medicine.
Celastrol, derived from trees and shrubs called celastracaea, has been used for centuries in China to treat symptoms such as fever, chills, joint pain and inflammation. The MCG researchers think it may also play a [...]

Research at Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science is investigating the potential use of non-pathogenic baker’s yeast as a promising, natural therapy for cancer.
Dr. Mamdooh Ghoneum presented his findings Tuesday, Feb. 2 at a special conference on “Cell Death Mechanism,” sponsored by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).
In laboratory tests, Dr. Ghoneum exposed [...]

By now everyone knows that smoking can kill you and your neighboor. Secondhand smoke is esoecially dangerous for children. These seven reasons not to smoke around kids speak for themselves.

1. Exposure to secondhand smoke causes premature death and disease in children and adults who do not smoke.

2. Between 1988 and 2002, cotinine levels, [...]