Articles in the Cancer Prevention Category
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A recent scientific report has confirmed that there is no association between localized prostate cancer’s clinical stage and a patient’s risk of cancer relapse after having his prostate removed.
The main aim of staging prostate cancers is to aid the health care professionals to determine a patient’s prognosis.
It can be assumed that a more advanced clinical stage may point towards the greater risk of the relapse of prostate cancer after treatment. But on the contrary researchers have found that clinical stage is of questionable utility for predicting disease recurrence after surgical …
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In one of the recently published researches it has been reported that people just don’t drink coffee to enjoy its taste but coffee may also reduce the risk of breast cancer.
There has been a detailed report published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Breast Cancer Research on the same topic.
The report shows that drinking coffee specifically reduces the risk of anti estrogen-resistant estrogen-receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer.
The lifestyle factors and coffee consumption between women with breast cancer and age-were matched with the women without breast cancer and their reports were compared …
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A recent randomized trial of antioxidants for cancer prevention found that antioxidant supplements do not appear to be associated with an increased risk of melanoma.
According to a new report to support this fact, there have been random trials where people were given daily supplementation with nutritionally appropriate doses of vitamins C and E, beta carotene, selenium and zinc and it was seen that it largely increased melanoma risk among women.
The authors note than on a daily basis an estimated 48 % to 55 % of the American adults consume vitamin …
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A new study by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have shown that a combination of calcium and vitamin D may decrease the risk of melanoma in half for some women even the one who have the high risk of developing this life-threatening skin cancer disease.
The scientists have used the existing data from a large clinical trial and targeted only on the women with a history of non-melanoma skin cancer because generally the people who are nowhere near this non-fatal disease are the ones who are more likely to develop …
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Recent scientific reports have shown that females who consume coffee or tea during pregnancy have a greater chance of developing cancer in their babies.
Experts confirm caffeine has the tendency of damaging the DNA of babies in the womb. This process can make the children more susceptible to leukemia which is one the most common diagnosis of cancer among the children of the cancer in children.
Scientists at Leicester University will do a survey of hundreds of pregnant women who consume caffeine and compare the results with blood samples from their babies …
