Information about different types of cancer
Posted in Brain Cancer, General on Mar 14th, 2008
Compounds found in garlic may provide a new brain cancer treatment, researchers have said.
A study has revealed that organo-sulphur compounds may be able to kill brain cancer cells and help to combat glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain tumour.
Scientists at the Medical University of South Carolina studied three garlic-derived compounds, DAS, DADS and DATS, and [...]
Posted in Lung Cancer on Mar 14th, 2008
New research has shown that lung tissue can be permanently damaged by smoking, meaning that smokers who have quit still stand the possibility of getting lung cancer.
The study, from the British Columbia Cancer Research Centre in Vancouver, has shown that smoking can permanently affect the actions of key genes, particularly those that may be involved [...]
Posted in General on Mar 14th, 2008
New research has shown that nutrients from Hass avocados can prevent the development of oral cancer, a finding that may one day lead to a new cancer treatment.
Scientists from Ohio State University have found that certain nutrients from the avocados neutralise or restrict the growth of precancerous cells that could lead to oral cancer.
Posted in Breast Cancer on Mar 13th, 2008
Scientists have identified a gene that promotes aggressive breast cancer by altering the activities more than 1,000 other genes.
A report in the latest issue of Nature reveals that the gene, SATB1, is a key player in metastasis, the process by which cancer cells move away from the primary tumour site and settle [...]
Posted in Breast Cancer, General on Mar 8th, 2008
Anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin may reduce the incidence of breast cancer by up to 20 per cent and also benefit patients who already have the disease, new research has found.
But the study did not account for side-effects, and a Cancer Research UK spokesperson warned that people should not take aspirin in large doses, or [...]