Cancer News, Articles & Information

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Lack Of Sleep Increases Breast Cancer Risk By Inhibiting Melatonin Production

A recent Japanese study, published by the British Journal of Cancer in September this year, has found that women who get six or less hours sleep a night are much more likely to develop breast cancer than the rest of the population. The study involved 23,995 Japanese women aged between 40 and 79 who were followed [...]

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Walnuts Slow Growth Of Breast Cancer Cells

A study, published in the peer reviewed medical journal Nutrition and Cancer, has found that walnuts can dramatically cut the growth rate of breast tumors in mice. The study, conducted by researchers at the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology at the Marshall University School of Medicine in West Virginia, USA, involved the implantation of human breast [...]

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Red Wine May Reduce Lung Cancer Risk In Smokers

A study, published this month in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, And Prevention, has suggested that smokers may be able to reduce their risk of developing lung cancer by as much as 60% by consuming at least one glass of red wine each day. The research was conducted by scientists at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California, [...]

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Dairy Products Linked To Increased Risk Of Prostate Cancer

A high intake of dairy products can increase the risk of prostate cancer by as much as 30% according to a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2001. The researchers, based at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, used data from the Physicians’ Health Study which involved more than 20,000 men from [...]

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Diets High In Fat, Low In Fruit & Vegetables Linked To Bladder Cancer

A low intake of fruit and vegetables, and a high fat diet may be risk factors for bladder cancer according to the findings of a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology in April 2000. The study involved the analysis of 38 previous research studies on the impact of diet on bladder cancer. The researchers [...]

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Vitamin E Supplementation Decreases Risk Of Prostate Cancer

A form of Vitamin E known as alpha-tocopherol may reduce both the risk of developing and dying from prostate cancer according to a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The study, which was published back in 1998 by researchers at the Department of Public Health in Helsinki, Finland, looked at the effects [...]

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Broccoli Rich Diets Ward Off Prostate Cancer

A new study has found that men who eat at least 400g of broccoli a week (around three servings) may be at a decreased risk of developing prostate cancer due to broccoli’s ability to modify the expression of certain genes involved in the development of prostate cancer. The study was carried out by researchers from Norwich [...]

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Abdominal Fat May Be Linked To Pancreatic Cancer

Women with large waist sizes may be up to 70% more likely to develop pancreatic cancer according to a new study published this month in the British Journal of Cancer. The study, which was headed by Dr Juhua Luo of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, involved the study of almost 140,000 post-menopausal women from the Women’s [...]

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Vitamin D Not Effective In Reducing Prostate Cancer Risk

A new study, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute has found that Vitamin D is not effective in reducing the risk of developing prostate cancer. Recent studies have found a link between vitamin D levels and a reduction in the risk of many forms of cancer such as breast, colon, and lung cancer [...]

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Regular Exercise May Cut Cancer Risk In Men

A new study, conducted by Swedish researchers at the Karolinska Institute, has suggested that men who engage in moderate physical exercise in a regular basis have a reduced risk of developing and subsequently dying from cancer. The study was published this month in the British Journal of Cancer and involved the study of 40,708 Swedish men [...]

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Eating Fish May Reduce Cancer Risk

Regular consumption of fish may reduce the risk of developing many forms of cancer including cancers of the esophagus, mouth, stomach, colon, and pancreas according to a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in July 1999. The study, conducted by Italian researchers, involved the comparison of over 8,000 people who had been diagnosed [...]

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Eight Drinks A Day Raises Total Cancer Risk By 90%

A report, published by the Cancer Institute NSW in Australia has found that alcohol might be more strongly linked to cancer than previous thought. The authors of the report reviewed the findings of 634 previous studies to determine the link between alcohol consumption and the risk of various cancers. In total, cancer risk was found to [...]

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Folate May Reduce Pancreatic Cancer Risk

Diets high in folate, also known as folic acid or vitamin B9, have been implicated with a reduced risk of many cancers including colo-rectal, lung, and esophageal cancer. Recent evidence also suggests a link between folate and a reduction in pancreatic cancer risk of up to 75% in some cases. The study, conducted by Swedish researchers [...]

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Regular Aspirin Use Leads To A Small Reduction In Breast Cancer Risk

A new study, published in the journal Breast Cancer Research in April this year has found that daily aspirin use leads to a modest reduction in the risk of breast cancer. The study, conducted by researchers at the US National Cancer Institute in Rockville, USA, focused on 136,408 women aged between 51 and 72 and who [...]

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Diabetics Are Less Likely To Develop Advanced Prostate Cancer

Those who have diabetes are less likely to develop prostate cancer, particularly advanced prostate cancer according to a recent study. Diabetics tend to have lower testosterone levels than non-diabetics which is thought to be responsible for the lower incidence of prostate cancer observed in diabetic individuals. The study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology in [...]

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Heavy Drinking Ups Risk Of Cancer In Mouth, Esophagus, Breast & Liver

A recent analysis of 156 research studies has found that moderate alcohol consumption can increase the risk of developing several forms of cancer including cancers of the mouth, larynx, esophagus, breast, colon, and liver. The study, published in the journal Preventive Medicine in 2004, involved the analysis of data from 156 studies involving a total of [...]

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Heavy Drinking Raises Liver Cancer Risk

According to recent evidence, not only does heavy drinking increase the risk of developing cirrhosis of the liver, but it also increases the likelihood of an individual developing hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common form of liver cancer. A recent study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology in 2002, compared the alcohol consumption histories of 464 [...]

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Two Drinks A Day Increases Breast Cancer Risk By 32%

Even relatively low levels of alcohol consumption may increase a womens risk of developing one form of breast cancer by a significant amount according to a recent American study of almost 200,000 women. The research, conducted by the National Cancer Institute looked at data from 184,418 women in order to explore the link between breast cancer [...]

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Cancer Death Rates For Smokers Compared To Non-Smokers

Many smokers want to know exactly how much higher their risk of dying from various forms of cancer is compared to non-smokers. Unfortunately the answer is a lot higher, more than 10 times higher for cancers such as lung, larynx, and mouth cancers. Interestingly some forms of cancer that one wouldn’t normally associate with cancer [...]

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Fruit & Vegetable Consumption Lowers Pancreatic Cancer Risk

Fruit and vegetable consumption may reduce the probability of developing pancreatic cancer according to several recent scientific studies. One of the largest studies on the relationship between fruit and vegetable consumption and pancreatic cancer risk was published in September 2005 in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. The study involved analyzing the dietary habits of [...]

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