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Olive Oil To Cut Prostate Cancer Risk
The results, published in the medical journal Nutrition And Cancer, appear to confirm anecdotal evidence that the herbal mixture has powerful anti-cancer properties. Called Zyflamend, the supplement is based on olive oil and ten different herbs. by PAT HAGAN, Daily Mail........ Posted by: Jesmi24 Permalink Source Cancer Rates Lowering
The report includes comprehensive data on trends over the past several decades for all major cancers. It shows that the long-term decline in overall cancer death rates continued through 2003 for all races and both sexes combined. The declines were greater among men (1.6 percent per year from 1993 through 2003) than women (0.8 percent per year from 1992 through 2003). Death rates decreased for 11 of the 15 most common cancers in men and for 10 of the 15 most common cancers in women. The authors attribute the decrease in death rates, in part, to successful efforts to reduce exposure to tobacco, earlier detection through screening, and more effective therapy, saying that continued success will depend on maintaining and enhancing these efforts. "The greater decline in cancer death rates among men is due in large part to their substantial decrease in tobacco use. We need to enhance efforts to reduce tobacco use in women so that the rate of decline in cancer death rates becomes comparable to that of men," said Betsy A. Kohler, President of the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries, Inc (NAACCR)......... Posted by: Jesmi24 Permalink Source Elizabeth Dill-Isgro and PINC
How could this be happening!! I was 32 years old, had a great job as General Manager of a Media Company, did some modelling on the side, jogged everyday to keep my slender figure and spent one hell of a lot of money on my long hair to get that beautiful Natural look. The hair that I spent close to $150.00 a month on that would soon lay in a pool of water in the drain in my shower. After my surgery I was sent home with one breast, drains coming out of me where my breast once sat and a prescription to prevent infection. What about a prescription for sanity!!!! I lay for about a month in the fetal position asking the unanswerable question WHY ME!!! I was convinced I was going to die. I could not sleep and would call my mother, a friend or pretty much anyone I could find at 3 am in the morning in tears......... Posted by: Jesmi24 Permalink Source Hair loss oily skin and cancer.
Xiao-Jing Wang, M.D., Ph.D., professor of otolaryngology/head and neck surgery, Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine
The discovery by the laboratory of Xiao-Jing Wang, M.D., Ph.D., professor of otolaryngology/head and neck surgery, OHSU School of Medicine, and member of the OHSU Cancer Institute, points to a new pathway that could some day be used as a therapeutic target for not only treating hair loss and oily skin, but prevent and treat cancer. The study's results are published in the current issue of the journal Developmental Cell. Epidermal stem cells give rise to the outer layer of the skin that serves as a barrier for the body, as well as follicles that produce hairs and sebaceous glands that produce lipid oil to lubricate the skin. In aged skin, a protein called Smad7 is overproduced, which triggers hair loss and sebaceous gland growth. The Developmental Cell study is the first to definitively link Smad7 over-expression and the pathological changes that occur in aged skin. "In humans, scientists and medical doctors documented the aging skin phenotype a long time ago, and the Smad7 over-expression in aged skin was reported a few years ago, but nobody knew whether these two events had any link," said Wang, who also serves in the OHSU departments of Cell and Developmental Biology, and Dermatology. "We found the mechanism that links these two together"......... Posted by: Jesmi24 Permalink Source How Often Do You Apply Sunscreen?
So says Kerry Hanson, a chemist at the University of California at Riverside. She and her colleagues exposed human skin samples grown in the lab to UV radiation while they were covered with three common. UV filters found in sunscreens: benzophenone-3, octocrylene and octylmethoxycinnamate. After just 1 hour, they found each compound had sunk into the skin, meaning its protective effect was greatly reduced. Worse, Hanson's team found that the samples contained more reactive oxygen species (ROS) than skin exposed to UV with no sunscreen on it. ROS are free radicals that can damage skin cells and increase the risk of skin cancer (Free Radical Biology and Medicine, DOI: 10.1016/j. freeradbiomed.2006.06.011). The Skin Cancer Foundation in New York recommends that people go no more than 2 hours between reapplications of sunscreen. Our findings tend to support that, says Hanson. It might actually be necessary to reapply even more often. One way of counteracting free radicals, Hanson says, might be to add antioxidants such as vitamins C and E to sunscreens. "In previous work, we've shown that antioxidants can help neutralise ROS in the skin," she says, though she has yet to perform the same experiment with sunscreen......... Posted by: Jesmi24 Permalink Source Macy's Shop for a Cause
breastcancer.org. Attn: Macy's Shop for a Cause. 111 Forrest Avenue, 1R. Narberth, PA 19072. Make sure to include your return address so that we can mail the pass back to you. An additional donation of 50 cents to cover shipping and handling is much appreciated. Pass requests must be received by Friday, September 8th......... Posted by: Jesmi24 Permalink Source The 5 Carcinogens Living in Your House
THE CARCINOGEN: Sawdust. THE SOURCE: Garage workbench and anywhere else sanding is done. THE DANGER: Invades your nostrils, causing nasal cancer. THE DEFENSE: Buy a sander with a bagging feature, and wear a dust mask. THE CARCINOGEN: Di (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP). THE SOURCE: PVC pipes and food wrapped in plastic. THE DANGER: Causes liver cancer and shrunken testicles in rats. THE DEFENSE: Avoid meats the supermarket has prepared and wrapped in plastic. THE CARCINOGEN: Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). THE SOURCE: Nonstick surfaces. THE DANGER: Early studies show a possible link to liver cancer. THE DEFENSE: Put away the nonstick pans and cook with pans coated with olive oil. THE CARCINOGEN: Heterocyclic amines (HCA)......... Posted by: Jesmi24 Permalink Source Worms Cancer And Ageing
The findings raise the question of whether genetic variations in specific proteins in humans may protect some people from age associated diseases, while placing others at heightened risk of cancer. In the study, which received funding from the UK's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), scientists genetically removed checkpoint proteins in the nematode worm, C.elegans, which resulted in a 15 to 30 per cent increase in the lifespan of the worms. Previously it was thought that checkpoint proteins were only functional in dividing cells, but this new research suggests they have a dual function, also being active in cells that no longer divide. Gordon Lithgow, Associate Professor at the Buck Institute, explained: "We know that ageing is a huge risk factor in cancer, and eventhough we know the role these proteins plays in preventing cancer - or encouraging it if the proteins are not working properly - we did not imagine that this checkpoint protein would be involved in determining lifespan."........ Posted by: Jesmi24 Permalink Source Sperm Banking For Younger Cancer Patients
Dr Guy Makin, at the School of Medicine's Division of Human Development and Reproductive Health, suggests giving better quality information on sperm banking to patients as young as 13, as well as training medical professionals to discuss the issue with them. Several types of chemotherapy can damage the sperm-producing portion of the testes, while radiation of the testicular area can also lead to infertility, For this reason, infertility is very common among male survivors of childhood cancer. Patients as young as 13 are capable of producing semen samples with normal sperm counts and these can be frozen for future use. A 2002 study found 77 percent of childless male cancer patients aged 14 to 40 said they would like to father children in the future, they note. But the same investigation found just half of these patients had been given the option of banking sperm, and less than a quarter had done so successfully. To investigate what obstacles exist to sperm banking among these patients, Dr Makin and his team surveyed 55 males aged 13 to 21 at their cancer diagnosis who had undergone potentially infertility-producing therapy and had been offered the option of banking their sperm at the Teenage Cancer Trust Young Oncology Unit at the Christie Hospital in Manchester......... Posted by: Jesmi24 Permalink Source Gene Therapy Suppresses Ovarian Cancer
Ovary cancer is diagnosed in more than 25,000 women in the United States each year, and about 16,000 American women die from the disease annually. Despite aggressive surgery and chemotherapy approaches, the prognosis for ovary cancer is poor, and most women have a life expectancy of only three to four years after their diagnoses. In this study, the Pitt researchers inoculated mice with an ovary cancer cell line. They treated some of the mice immediately with a genetically engineered vaccinia virus containing a gene coding cytosine deaminase, a suicide gene, and delayed therapy of other mice for 30 or 60 days. Control mice were inoculated with ovary cancer cells but were not given the gene treatment. The scientists found complete inhibition of tumor growth in the mice that were treated immediately with gene treatment and significant tumor inhibition in the 30- and 60-day delayed therapy mice. In contrast, all non-gene-therapy treated mice either died or were euthanized due to overwhelming buildup of fluid in the peritoneal cavity by 94 days following tumor inoculation......... Posted by: Jesmi24 Permalink Source Older Blog Entries |
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