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Heart disease may be a risk factor for prostate cancer

In a large analysis of men participating in a prostate drug trial, researchers at the Duke Cancer Institute found a significant correlation between coronary artery disease and prostate cancer, suggesting the two conditions ...

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created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ovarian cancer risk related to inherited inflammation genes

In a study conducted by researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues from 11 other institutions in the Unites States and the United Kingdom, genes that are known to be involved in inflammation were found to be related ...

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created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Potential breast cancer prevention drug found to cause significant bone loss

A drug that has been shown to prevent breast cancer in postmenopausal women at high risk of developing the disease, and is poised for widespread use, appears to significantly worsen age-related bone loss, according to an ...

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Lifestyle changes can help prevent 30% of cancers: WHO

More than 30 percent of cancers can be prevented by lifestyle changes, the World Health Organization said Friday, on the eve of World Cancer Day.

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created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new screening method for prostate cancer

A new study by NYU Langone Medical Center and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine shows novel PSA velocity (PSAV) risk count testing may provide a more effective way for physicians to screen men for clinically ...

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created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Prostate cancer risk halved for subfertile men

Involuntary childlessness owing to reduced fertility is a concern for many men. However, these men do have one advantage – they run a significantly lower risk of suffering from prostate cancer. Researchers are interested ...

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created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Women not following through with recommended breast screening MRI

A study of 64,659 women, recently published in the journal Academic Radiology, found that while 1,246 of these women were at high enough breast cancer risk to recommend additional screening with MRI, only 173 of these women ...

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created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Barrett's patients who smoke twice as likely to develop oesophageal cancer

Smoking doubles the risk of developing oesophageal cancer in people with Barrett's Oesophagus, according to scientists at Queen's University Belfast and the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry.

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created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

French police arrest boss of breast implant company

French police on Thursday arrested Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of the PIP breast implant company that sparked a global health scare by using substandard silicone, as part of a manslaughter probe.

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created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Women with certain type of ovarian cancer and BRCA gene mutation have improved survival at 5 years

Among women with invasive epithelial ovarian cancer, patients having a germline (gene change in a reproductive cell that could be passed to offspring) mutation in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes was associated with improved 5-year ...

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created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Molecular fingerprint discovered that may improve outcomes for head and neck cancer patients

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital for Einstein, have found a biomarker in head and neck cancers that can predict whether a patient's ...

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Many people continue to smoke after being diagnosed with cancer

A new analysis has found that a substantial number of lung and colorectal cancer patients continue to smoke after being diagnosed. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the st ...

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created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Gender differences in liver cancer risk explained by small changes in genome

Men are four times more likely to develop liver cancer compared to women, a difference attributed to the sex hormones androgen and estrogen. Although this gender difference has been known for a long time, ...

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created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Solving the mystery of an old diabetes drug that may reduce cancer risk

In 2005, news first broke that researchers in Scotland found unexpectedly low rates of cancer among diabetics taking metformin, a drug commonly prescribed to patients with Type II diabetes. Many follow-up studies reported ...

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created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Computer algorithm used to identify bladder cancer marker

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have used an innovative mathematical technique to find markers that effectively predict how deadly a cancer will be. The discovery, which in this case concerned bladder ...

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created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast