With an international health group declaring indoor tanning booths carcinogenic in 2009, you might think that studies connecting indoor tanning and skin cancer are pretty well established.
Cancer
Shark cartilage no help against cancer
Despite the fact that sharks do not tend to get cancer, it turns out that their cartilage does not contain any magical cancer-fighting agent that could help patients battling the disease.
That’s the conclusion of the latest research from a government-funded study on the subject. Reporting in the Journal of the National Cancer …
Childhood cancer survivors: how healthy are they?
Surviving cancer is definitely a good thing, and no group of patients has benefited more from recent advances in cancer care than the youngest patients. Among cases of the most common childhood cancers, five year survival rates have jumped from 25% in the 1970s to 80% today.
But because young survivors are more likely to live years, …
In Young Tanners, Fear of Wrinkling Is Worse than Cancer
How do you get a teenager to comply? Appeal to her vanity.
Does new cancer report overstate environmental risks?
Cancer researchers are expressing concern over a new report highlighting the dangers of environmental toxins, suggesting that the findings overstate the risks of daily exposure to household and environmental chemicals in comparison to known risks such as smoking and obesity.
President’s panel analyzes environmental cancer impact
Environmental toxins are a greater cause of cancer than previously believed, according to a new report from the President’s Cancer Panel — an advisory group that considers testimony from several cancer researchers to inform the president’s policies on cancer prevention. In the more than 200-page annual report (PDF), the authors say
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Stomach cancer increasing among white young adults
While across the entire U.S. population the incidence of a certain type of stomach cancer has been declining in the past three decades, among white adults ages 25 to 39, non cardia gastric cancer — or cancer of the lower stomach — has actually increased, according to a new analysis published this week in the Journal of the American
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Free screenings for asthma, skin cancer
As part of its 14th annual national asthma awareness and screening campaign, the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) is offering free asthma screenings at some 200 locations nationwide. Additionally, through December of this year, as part of its efforts to promote skin cancer awareness and prevention the American
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FDA approves novel prostate cancer “vaccine”
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new prostate cancer treatment Thursday. The treatment, which works by turning the body’s immune system against invading cancer cells, is called Provenge and is manufactured by Seattle biotech firm Dendreon. According to a story that ran on the front page of the Seattle Times this past
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HPV test better than pap smears for cervical screening
Two studies out this week indicate that human papillomavirus (HPV) screening may be a more effective way than conventional pap smears to identify pre-cancerous cells, enabling women to intercept cervical dysplasia before it potentially develops into cancer.
Developing a urine test to screen for colon cancer
Researchers at University of North Carolina at Greensboro are examining whether urine tests might provide another alternative to (colonoscopy and virtual colonoscopy) for colon cancer screening. In an initial study, published in the American Chemical Society’s Journal of Proteome Research, investigators recruited 123 participants—60
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Large scale study launched to investigate cell phone risks
Though a handful of studies on the risks of cell phone radiation have prompted some lawmakers to propose legislation that would outfit mobile devices with warning labels (like packs of cigarettes), and some companies are already marketing radiation diverting phone covers, in the scientific community there remains little consensus over
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Eating fruits and veggies only slightly cuts cancer risk
Despite the widely held belief—promoted by the World Health Organization and U.S. public health organizations for two decades—that eating more fruit and veggies can diminish cancer risk, a large scale study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute finds that getting a daily five servings of apples, tomatoes and leafy
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