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Hispanic Children Suffering From Brain Cancer Do Not Enjoy Equal Access to Medical Care

Written on 21 Oct, 2009 at 12:25 in Brain Tumor, Cancer | viewed 3,717 times | 0 Comments

Children of Hispanic ethnic who suffer from brain cancer, as statistics show, enjoy in a small number and rare occasions a qualitative therapy in clinical centers which have as specialization neurosurgery compared to other children suffering from the same disease.... (Continue reading)

New Research Shows a Link between HPV and the Rare Nasopharyngeal Cancer

Written on 21 Oct, 2009 at 12:22 in Brain Tumor, Cancer, Colon Cancer | viewed 3,032 times | 0 Comments

A recent research funded by grants from National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, U-M Head and Neck Cancer SPORE and a loan to the SensiGen LLC offered by the state of Michigan, was concerned with the increasing negative effects... (Continue reading)

Too Good To Be True? Than For Sure It Isn`t! Overdosing and Insufficiency of Vitamin A Produces Negative Effects on Our Body

Written on 21 Oct, 2009 at 12:20 in Cancer, Leukemia, Nutrition, Prostate Cancer | viewed 22,447 times | 0 Comments

Overdosing vitamin A may seem rather harmless to most people, but recent studies presented in the FASEB Journal present the situation as the other way round. It is well known that vitamin A represents a key in the cellular production... (Continue reading)

Research on Breast Cancer Patients Discovers No Link between PCR Rate and Race

Written on 21 Oct, 2009 at 12:17 in Breast Cancer, Cancer, Colon Cancer, Lung Cancer, Prostate Cancer | viewed 16,636 times | 0 Comments

A study undergone by scientists from the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas discovered that people who were suffering from breast cancer in an advanced stage and were treated with the similar group of neo-adjuvant chemotherapy... (Continue reading)

Black People More Affected by Pancreatic Cancer than Whites

Written on 5 Oct, 2009 at 16:45 in Brain Tumor, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Colon Cancer, Lung Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer | viewed 22,482 times | 0 Comments

Smoking and body mass index represent high risk factors connected to pancreatic cancer. It has been observed that black people are more affected by this disease than white people and thus, experience a higher mortality rate. Researchers recognize that they... (Continue reading)

Natural Agents and Chemo Drugs become Partners in Cancer Treatment

Written on 5 Oct, 2009 at 16:42 in Cancer | viewed 4,283 times | 0 Comments

Research published in the Journal of Cancer presented a study made by scientists from the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University regarding the fact that there are some natural food agents that could treat cancer. The research was funded... (Continue reading)

Breast Cancer Chemotherapy Impairs Sleep-wake Rhythm in Women

Written on 5 Oct, 2009 at 16:37 in Breast Cancer, Cancer, Colon Cancer | viewed 10,994 times | 0 Comments

The September issue of Sleep journal presents a study regarding the fact that chemotherapy affects the sleep-wake rhythm of women suffering from breast cancer. The first period of chemotherapy treatment impairs the sleep-wake cadence, whereas repetitive therapy with chemo worsens... (Continue reading)

New Study Disclosed about Autoimmune Diseases

Written on 5 Oct, 2009 at 16:34 in Brain Tumor, Cancer, Leukemia, Lung Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Stem Cells | viewed 28,201 times | 0 Comments

Researchers from University of Michigan state that they have discovered a new method by which they can hold in place immune cells that are characterized by an aggressive reaction and attack the own cells of the human body. This... (Continue reading)

S1P Gene Regulating Lipid May Help Develop New Drugs against Cancer

Written on 5 Oct, 2009 at 16:32 in Brain Tumor, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Leukemia, Lung Cancer | viewed 20,566 times | 0 Comments

Shingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) represents a bioactive lipid messenger which can be found in our blood in large quantities. A team of scientists from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine observed that this lipid has an important role in developing a... (Continue reading)

Denosumab Enhances the Density of Bones and Decreases Fracture Risk for Prostate Cancer Survivors

Written on 5 Oct, 2009 at 16:28 in Cancer, Prostate Cancer | viewed 5,178 times | 0 Comments

The first research that studies the effects of twice-yearly applied denosumab treatment is going to be released in the August issue of the New England Journal of Med, but for those interested it can be retrieved earlier from the Internet.... (Continue reading)