In the battle against breast cancer medicine may have acquired another valuable weapon – broccoli. A natural compound inside this delicious leafy green might just help in the fight as part of a breast cancer diet based on the results of a new bit of research published May 1, 2010 in Clinical [...]
In honor of National Skin Cancer Awareness month, here’s some unexpected news… If you spend lots of time behind the wheel, you might have an increased skin cancer risk based on the findings of a new study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.
Skin cancers on the face were found [...]
A new study appearing in the May 2010 American Journal of Medicine has found that too few middle aged (and older) white Americans are getting skin cancer screenings. We all know that examining the skin surface can help identify skin cancers at an early stage, when they’re easiest to treat.
According to the [...]
Girls, yet another reason to watch your weight. Women who pack on pounds steadily over their lifetime up their risk for postmenopausal breast cancer compared to those who watch their weight according to a study just presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). Earlier work [...]
Your doctor will tell you that a diet rich in fish oil and other food high in omega-3s is good for your heart – working to cut the risk of hardening of the arteries, irregular heartbeat, heart attack, sudden cardiac death and even heart failure. But now some new research hints that [...]
We’ve all heard (time and time again) that a daily vitamin is important in ensuring your body gets the nutrients it needs. One each day is supposed to help improve your overall health and protect against heart disease, perhaps even cancer. Now, a new observational study appearing online in the American [...]
Important news for women – being exposed to chemicals and pollutants before her mid 30s may greatly increase a woman’s risk of breast cancer after she goes through menopause according to a new study by Canadian scientists. The work appears in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
The team, lead by France [...]
The latest results of an annual survey on health and wellness bring some unsettling findings – surviving a heart attack or managing a chronic disease might also raise cancer risk factors. It seems those who have high blood pressure, high cholesterol or live with diabetes were about two times as likely to [...]
There’s some new research that might help explain the link earlier studies have found between aspirin and other over the counter pain relievers and a reduced risk cancer – of both ovarian and the breast. The 740 postmenopausal women in the latest study (all Nurses Health Study participants) who took either aspirin, [...]
There’s a rather prickly debate going on regarding the cause of breast cancer and the effect of lifestyle factors on the disease. A presentation at the recent European Breast Cancer Conference In Barcelona estimates that up to one third of breast cancers in Western countries could be avoided if women ate less [...]
