Archive for 'Cancer'
Diagnoses Gone Wrong
Study: One in Three Women Treated for Breast Cancer Unnecessarily In about three months, you’re going to hear a lot about breast cancer. That’s because breast cancer awareness month is held every October, where women and men encourage their moms, sisters, and wives to get screened. While screenings have without question saved the lives of [...]
Posted: July 22nd, 2009 under Breast Cancer, Cancer.
Tags: breast cancer misdiagnosis, breast cancer screening, mammogram
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Obesity’s Deadly Deed
Obesity Increases Deadliest Forms of Cancer It goes without saying that any cancer diagnosis is bad news, but some diagnoses are worse than others. Virtually all cancers have good survival rates, so long as they’re diagnosed early, but some are hard just plain hard to pinpoint, which means that by the time they are diagnosed [...]
Posted: June 29th, 2009 under Cancer, Obesity.
Tags: pancreatic cancer
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Green Tea: Great for Prostate
Why Dads Need to Be Drinking More Green Tea This past Sunday was pretty eventful day on the calendar. Not only was it the first day of summer, but it was also Father’s Day. And in an effort to honor the most influential man in most of our lives, Major League Baseball and the boys [...]
Posted: June 23rd, 2009 under Cancer, Green Tea.
Tags: green tea benefits, green tea cancer benefits, green tea cancer prevention, Prostate Cancer, serum levels
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With Bladder Cancer Treatment, Less Is More
Study: No Difference in Results for Bladder Cancer Patients Receiving High or Low Intensity Treatments Clichés are anathema to the writer who wants to pepper his or her prose with provocative witticisms. But try as they might, clichés find their way into articles and books because – more often than not – they’re true. Few [...]
Posted: April 15th, 2009 under Cancer.
Tags: bladder cancer, frankincense oil
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For Perfect Pipes, Avoid Piping Hot Tea
Drinking Steaming Hot Tea Triggers Increased Throat Cancer Risk To really rest and relax, what’s more soothing than a nice, piping hot cup of tea? I drink tea every day, and I can tell you it’s one of my favorite beverages not only for its good taste and smell, but it because it relaxes me. [...]
Posted: April 5th, 2009 under Cancer.
Tags: hot tea
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Latest Study ‘Red Meat’ for Vegetarian Stance?
Report: Red Meat Consumption Contributes to All Forms of Death It may not be game, set and match, but this latest finding on the dangers of red meat certainly gives its avoiders the advantage. A 10-year study conducted by researchers from the National Cancer Institute seems to confirm what many of us suspected, but few [...]
Posted: March 30th, 2009 under Cancer, Heart Disease.
Tags: bison, red meat
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Acryla’mired’
Doing One’s Best to Avoid Acrylamide Last summer, I wrote about acrylamide – a chemical that’s found most prevalently in potato chips, French fries, crackers, coffee and other carbohydrate-laden snacks. Many animal studies have shown that when acrylamide is eaten in excess – more than 40 micrograms, according to most estimates – it contributes to [...]
Posted: March 9th, 2009 under Cancer.
Tags: acrylamide, french fries, potato chips
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Exercise: The New Colonoscopy
Comprehensive Harvard Study Indicates Exercise Cuts Colon Cancer Risk by 25 Percent February is heart month in more ways than one. We give our “hearts” to our sweethearts every 14th, sure, but perhaps more significantly, American Heart Month comes every February. It’s a month where health-conscious Americans go door to door getting the word out [...]
Posted: March 6th, 2009 under Cancer, Exercise.
Tags: Colon cancer
Comments: 1
Research Shows Grape Seed Extract Fights Cancer Cells
In the January issue of Clinical Cancer Research, a study involving grape seed extract and leukemia cells has been published, which shows amazing results implying a link between grape seeds and cancer elimination. Conducted by researchers from the University of Kentucky, an in-lab experiment of leukemia cells were exposed to grape seed extract. More than [...]
Posted: January 5th, 2009 under Cancer, Grape Seed Extract.
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Vitamin C as a Safer Cancer Cure
The suffering and horrors associated with cancer is not due to just merely the disease itself. Chemotherapy pumps drugs into the body and leaves behind the side effects of general pain, nausea and vomiting, memory and hair loss and the depression of the immune system. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health published an alternative [...]
Posted: August 8th, 2008 under Cancer, Vitamin C.
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