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Obesity causes more than 100,000 cases of cancer in the United States each year -- and the number will likely rise as Americans get fatter, researchers said on Thursday. Having too much body fat causes nearly half the cases of endometrial cancer -- a type of cancer of the uterus -- and a third of esophageal cancer cases, the American Institute for Cancer Research said.
Scientists have managed to halt a rare and fatal brain disease with an experimental gene therapy technique using a deactivated version of the AIDS virus, a study published on Thursday showed. The international team used a disabled form of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to deliver working genes to two boys with the brain disease X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD).
Decades of illegal waste disposal in southern Italy may be having dire consequences for the health of people living in the area, new research shows. People living in the most trash-contaminated areas of the Campania region have higher mortality rates than those living in cleaner towns and cities, while cancer deaths are also elevated in the dirtiest municipalities, Dr.
An experimental vaccine cured nearly half of women with pre-cancerous growths on their genitals, producing major improvement in nearly four out of five, researchers in the Netherlands reported on Wednesday. "We hope to get results like this in women with cancer, but those tests are in the future," team leader Dr.
Men who eat a lot of red meat and processed meats may have a higher risk of developing prostate cancer than those who limit such foods, a large study of U.S. men suggests. Researchers at the National Cancer Institute found that among more than 175,000 men they followed for nine years, those who ate the most red and processed meats had heightened risks of developing any stage of prostate cancer, or advanced cancer in particular.
Low total cholesterol may be a sign of cancer rather than a cause, as some researchers have suggested, and men who have low cholesterol actually have a lower risk of developing high-risk prostate cancer, two teams reported on Tuesday.
Survivors of childhood brain tumors often suffer lasting problems with memory and other "cognitive" functions, results of a study indicate. The study also found lower levels of education, employment and income in adult survivors of childhood brain tumors compared with their siblings and survivors of other types of cancer.
Many U.S. primary care doctors are out of step with guidelines on Pap testing for cervical cancer -- largely because they overuse the test, according to a study published Monday. In a survey of more than 1,200 primary care doctors nationwide, government researchers found that less than one-quarter made Pap-test recommendations that were fully consistent with major guidelines.
elated illnesses in the nation's 250,000 poultry processing workers.
Worried about what to do with fat you've had liposuctioned from pudgy areas? Researchers have turned it into stem cells in the lab, but here's a more immediate use: Fat liposuctioned from other parts of the body can safely be used to increase a woman's breast size, according to study findings presented this week at the Plastic Surgery 2009 meeting in Seattle.
Worried about what to do with fat you've had liposuctioned from pudgy areas? Researchers have turned it into stem cells in the lab, but here's a more immediate use: Fat liposuctioned from other parts of the body can safely be used to increase a woman's breast size, according to study findings presented this week at the Plastic Surgery 2009 meeting in Seattle.
Women dread a diagnosis of endometrial cancer, but those who drink at least two cups of caffeinated coffee a day may have a lower risk for this cancer of cells lining the uterus. Coffee drinking seemed to particularly protect overweight and obese women, study co-author Dr.
Women who regularly use nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) have better survival after a colorectal cancer diagnosis, research indicates. During 2007, an estimated 112,340 cases of colon cancer and 41,420 cases of rectal cancer were diagnosed in the US, making colorectal cancer the third most common cancer among US men and women.
New Zealand scientists are developing an ice cream that is so good for you, it could come with a doctor's prescription. Researchers at the University of Auckland are working with dairy giant Fonterra to create a "medical dessert" which has shown encouraging signs in combating the side effects of chemotherapy in cancer sufferers.
A molecule found in a curry ingredient can kill esophageal cancer cells in the laboratory, suggesting it might be developed as an anti-cancer treatment, scientists said on Wednesday. Researchers at the Cork Cancer Research Center in Ireland treated esophageal cancer cells with curcumin -- a chemical found in the spice turmeric, which gives curries a distinctive yellow color -- and found it started to kill cancer cells within 24 hours.
Childhood cancer survivors are 18 times more likely to develop thyroid cancer than the general population, UK researchers report. "Survival after childhood cancer has greatly improved over the last three decades with 5-year survival 75 percent during the 1990s compared to 25 percent during the 1960s in the United Kingdom," Dr.
Israeli Jews who survived World War Two in Europe have a significantly higher risk for cancer than other Jews, possibly as a result of hardships endured in the Holocaust, researchers said on Monday. They said their study, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, suggests that stress or other factors such as extreme deprivation may play a role in triggering cancer.
Nine-year-old Corey Haas can ride his bike alone now, thanks to an experimental gene therapy that has boosted his fading vision with a single treatment. The gene therapy helped improve worsening eyesight caused by a rare inherited disease called Leber congenital amaurosis, or LCA, which makes most patients blind by age 40.
People with a history of skin cancer may want to cut back on the amount of fat they eat to reduce their risk of a second skin cancer, based on study findings from Australia. The findings link high intakes of total fat to increased risk of developing a type of skin cancer called squamous cell carcinoma among people who have a history of skin cancer.
Adult survivors of childhood cancer, particularly those in poor physical health, are at increased risk for experiencing suicidal thoughts, new research shows. This study is "one more reminder that there are long term consequences of the treatment of childhood cancer," Dr.
Peter Criss, founding member of rock band KISS, knows that many of his male fans are macho, so he is making the rounds to tell them even tough rocker guys like him can suffer from a disease usually associated with women -- breast cancer.
New experimental compounds make cancer cells more vulnerable to radiation while protecting healthy cells, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday in a finding that may lead to safer, more effective treatments for cancer. Studies in mice and in human cells showed the compounds protected normal cells from radiation injury, they said.
ffective * Glaxo says 2,000 women a year will be denied treatment LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's cost-effectiveness watchdog has decided to block use of GlaxoSmithKline's breast cancer drug Tyverb on the National Health Service (NHS) once again, despite a fresh review of the medicine.
Since 2007, when free vaccination against HPV for young women became available, Australia has seen a rapid decline in new cases of genital warts, researchers say. HPV, or human papillomavirus, causes genital warts and cervical cancer.
Cutting down on processed meats and red meat cooked at high temperatures as well as high-fat diary products may help reduce a woman's risk of risk of developing breast cancer, hints results of a large study on diet and breast cancer.
Lower-income women appear less likely to survive breast cancer than their more-affluent counterparts, and later diagnosis may largely explain why, a new study suggests. Using data on more than 100,000 U.S. women diagnosed with breast cancer between 1998 and 2002, the study found that those living in economically depressed areas had poorer survival rates through the end of 2005.
Scientists who watched tumor cells spread in living mice said on Sunday they had found a gene signal controlling how cancer cells move, which could help companies design new drugs to fight the disease. Scientists working for Cancer Research UK used hi-tech imaging techniques to watch how breast cancer cells spread in mice.
Some treatments for inflammatory bowel disease increase the risk of infection-related cancers, French scientists said on Monday, but the benefits of the drugs still outweigh the risks. Thiopurine drugs -- immunosuppressive medicines that inhibit the body's immune system -- are regularly used to treat inflammatory bowel disease, the researchers said, but can increase the risk of cancers linked to viral infections.
An experimental drug appears to cross a protective barrier in the brain that screens out most chemicals, offering potentially better ways to treat brain tumors, U.S. researchers said on Sunday. The drug, made by privately held Angiochem Inc of Montreal was safe and showed evidence it could shrink tumors in two separate early phase studies totaling more than 100 people with a brain cancer called glioblastoma.
Exercise can reduce the often debilitating fatigue that cancer patients experience during chemotherapy, new research shows. The study from Denmark found that people being treated for cancer are likely to benefit from a supervised exercise program that combines high intensity exercises (resistance training and aerobics) with low intensity activities (relaxation, body awareness, and message therapy).
