How big of a problem is prostate cancer?
It’s the most common cancer in men in the United States. Its been about 200,000 cases a year for the last five years or so. That means in the last five years, there are...
Category: Cancer
Breast Cancer Patients Turn to Supplements
Breast cancer survivors are turning to alternative therapies like supplements and vitamins to ease recovery, but researchers say they may be making uninformed choices. Research funded by the U.S. Department of Defense finds 57...
Pancreatic Cancer and Diabetes
The findings come from Japanese investigators who tested the technique on 86 patients in the hopes of identifying the cancer in its early stages. Although the procedure failed to find the cancer before it...
Quitting Smoking Reduces Lung Cancer Risk
Quitting smoking can decrease the risk of developing all different types of lung cancer, including those most and least closely associated with tobacco use. Lung cancer is typically divided into two major types: small...
Soy Diet and Prostate Cancer
Nagi B. Kumar, R.D., explains the value of incorporating soy into your diet to prevent and/or lessen the effects of prostate cancer. What effect has soy shown to have in cancers? Kumar: Soy is...
New Vaccines for Cancer
BOSTON (Ivanhoe Newswire) — Could the cure for breast cancer come in a shot? What about a vaccine to treat prostate cancer? Doctors are now looking past measles and mumps and developing vaccines to...