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Gutsy germs succumb to baby broccoli

Gutsy germs succumb to baby broccoli (w/Videos)

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A small, pilot study in 50 people in Japan suggests that eating two and a half ounces of broccoli sprouts daily for two months may confer some protection against a rampant stomach bug that ...


Vaccine to prevent colon cancer being tested in patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have begun testing a vaccine that might be able to prevent colon cancer in people at high risk for developing the disease. If shown to be effective, it might ...


New study bolsters case for preventive prostate cancer treatment

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created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

For the last six years, doctors have faced a dilemma about whether to treat men at risk of prostate cancer with the drug finasteride. On one hand, the drug had been shown to prevent cancer in about one of every four patients ...


Purple sweet potato means increased amount of anti-cancer components

Purple sweet potato means increased amount of anti-cancer components

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created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A Kansas State University researcher is studying the potential health benefits of a specially bred purple sweet potato because its dominant purple color results in an increased amount of anti-cancer components.


Carbohydrate restriction may slow prostate tumor growth

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created May 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Restricting carbohydrates, regardless of weight loss, appears to slow the growth of prostate tumors, according to an animal study being published this week by researchers in the Duke Prostate Center.


Key protein may explain the anti-aging and anti-cancer benefits of dietary restriction

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 3

A protein that plays a key role in tumor formation, oxygen metabolism and inflammation is involved in a pathway that extends lifespan by dietary restriction. The finding, which appears in the May 22, 2009 edition of the ...


Newly identified genetic variants found to increase breast cancer risk

Newly identified genetic variants found to increase breast cancer risk

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A large-scale effort to identify genetic markers of breast cancer has uncovered two common genetic variants that increase risk of the disease in women of European ancestry.


Red wine vs. white? It makes no difference when it comes to breast-cancer risk

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created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The largest study of its kind to evaluate the effect of red versus white wine on breast-cancer risk concludes that both are equal offenders when it comes to increasing breast-cancer risk. The results of the study, led by ...


Diet, exercise, weight curbs could cut cancer rates by third

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created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A third of common cancers could be prevented if people shifted to a sounder diet, exercised more and controlled their weight, researchers said on Thursday.


The Medical Minute: Cancer prevention

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

People often ask their physicians what they can do to prevent cancers. Various supplements and unorthodox treatments to clean out the system and purge toxins are promoted by convincing arguments as a way to improve health ...


New cancer study takes major step toward improved treatment

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created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Cancer researchers at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center have found a way to turn ineffective new cancer drugs into cancer-fighters. By using their patented chemical compound, SHetA2, researchers tricked cancer ...


American Cancer Society calls for new strategies to monitor exposure to environmental carcinogens

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created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new report from an American Cancer Society scientific advisory subcommittee on cancer and the environment says exposure to carcinogens should be minimized or eliminated whenever feasible, and calls for new strategies to ...


Teen smoking-cessation trial first to achieve significant quit rates

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created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

For the first time, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have demonstrated that it is possible to successfully recruit and retain a large number of adolescent smokers from the general population into a smoking ...


The way you eat may affect your risk for breast cancer

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created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

How you eat may be just as important as how much you eat, if mice studies are any clue.


Test detects molecular marker of aging in humans

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created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In 2004, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center announced a crucial discovery in the understanding of cellular aging. They found that as cells and tissues age, ...