Archive for September, 2010

Fight Skin Cancer with a Forty Pounds Home Test
Fight Skin Cancer with a Forty Pounds Home Test
An uncomplicated home test facilitating all those with worries regarding skin cancer to verify dubious moles has been made public by physicians. By just paying a paltry amount of forty pounds, specialists would scrutinize images of skin imperfections forwarded to a site online and be emailed back the outcome in just twenty-four hours time period. The test basically employs ‘traffic-light-system’ for judging the acuteness of such skin moles. Green when flashed is a sign of being undamaging in most certainty, while red would indicate malignancy and yellow signifies that the mole can have cancer presence and must be examined by a medical health expert. Physicians are hopeful that the home test would pave the way for sooner identification of the highly lethal type of skin cancer – malignant  [...]

September 27th, 2010 | Skin Cancer, Tests And Procedures
Slashing Cancer Risk with Innovative Strategies – Part III
Slashing Cancer Risk with Innovative Strategies – Part III
Here is a listing of easy tips and tricks for cutting your risk for cancer after skimming through myriad studies, specialist interrogations and effective approaches. Increasing Calcium consumption Calcium – the reason for milk having shot to prominence could also shield your body from colon cancer. People who religiously consumed calcium for four years had a thirty-six percent lowering in the formation of novel premalignant colon polyp growths five years subsequent to the trial having concluded, according to scientists from Darthmouth Medical School who did a follow-up of over eight hundred individuals who consumed 1200 milligrams calcium on a daily basis or a dummy. Although the trial was not based on milk, one could obtain the analogous quantity of calcium in trio eight ounces glasses  [...]

September 22nd, 2010 | Cancer Prevention
Going Teal Toed – Funky Nail Paint for Ovarian Cancer Awareness Cause
Going Teal Toed – Funky Nail Paint for Ovarian Cancer Awareness Cause
If you spotted someone donning teal toe nails,’ bold or pretty tone’ is what would instantaneously flood your thoughts. What if ‘Great, you are endorsing ovarian cancer awareness, right?’ With September being Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month and the ardent intention of bringing focus to the fifth prime reason for cancer fatalities among females, an association ‘Teal Toes’ is urging womankind to don teal paint on their nails during September or any other time for prompting discussions regarding ovarian cancer with others seeing the colour & complimenting or questioning about it. Heading Teal Toes Company, Cary Fitzmaurice professes to being keen on assisting females and those caring for them to be aware about the signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer. The tone teal is synonymous  [...]

September 20th, 2010 | Ovarian Cancer
Slashing Cancer Risk with Innovative Strategies – Part II
Slashing Cancer Risk with Innovative Strategies – Part II
Best ways to cancer-proof your life with these food forms and healthful habits. Snacking on Brazil nuts They are an astral selenium resource and reduce chances of developing bladder cancer among females, as per study finding at Dartmouth Medical School. Several researches have noted that individuals having elevated blood levels of this antioxidant were observed to be having lesser colon, rectum cancers and lung cancer related fatality rates. Scientists deem that selenium can shield the cells from harm afflicted by free radicals as well as improve immune functioning and repress development of nourishment-providing blood vessels that help in tumor growth. Burning away risk for Breast Cancer Engaging in moderate-intensity exercising like doing fast walks for two hours in a week’s time curbs  [...]

September 15th, 2010 | Cancer Prevention
Slashing Cancer Risk with Innovative Strategies – Part I
Slashing Cancer Risk with Innovative Strategies – Part I
Nearly seventy percent of identified cancer causes are preventable and associated with lifestyle. Simply incorporating these new strategies can reduce cancer risk. Filtering municipal water One could easily lessen the extent of being exposed to identified or doubted carcinogenic and hormone-disturbing chemical substances. Merely doing home filtration of tap or municipal water which has a higher safety quotient in comparison to packaged water that often have inferior quality has been suggested in a novel report furnished by the President’s Cancer  Panel and also the research finding by the EWG. Consumer Reports best buys for faucet mount water filter brands are: Pur Vertical. Culligan. Brita OPFF-100. Another important caveat is storing drinking water in glass or corrosion-resistant steel  [...]

September 13th, 2010 | Cancer Prevention
Hallucinogenic Mushrooms May alleviate Advanced Cancer Related Anxiety
Hallucinogenic Mushrooms May alleviate Advanced Cancer Related Anxiety
Lesser depression was noted when medium dosages of psilocybin mushrooms were given to patients suffering from cancer 6 months following a sole dosage in comparison to a placebo. Patients receiving magic mushrooms – a hallucinogenic substance with analogous effects as psychotropic drugs like LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) appear to lessen their anxiousness, researchers cite in the monthly medical journal ‘Archives of General Psychiatry’. A small-scaled preliminary study enrolling twelve cancer sufferers was devised for proving that psychotropic drugs could be researched safely as a means of relieving the distresses of later-staging cancers. It revitalizes a hopeful area of study that has lasted since the fifties to the earlier part of the seventies which indicated several patients experiencing  [...]

September 8th, 2010 | News
Michael Douglas’s Throat Cancer Diagnosis – Fact Sheet about What to Expect
Michael Douglas’s Throat Cancer Diagnosis – Fact Sheet about What to Expect
Around fifty thousand people in the United States would be identified with cancer of the larynx (voice box) or cancer of the pharynx in 2010, as per estimates furnished by the Oral Cancer Foundation and over 13000 individuals dying from it. In spite of advancements in the field of medicine, the number of throat cancer cases continues to be steadfast, according to the initiator of the Oral Cancer Foundation, Mr. Brian Hill. Factually he adds that there has been a sharp rise in throat cancer cases in the past ten years. Here is the additional info on the same. Throat Cancer Types The key types of throat cancer are oropharyngeal and laryngeal cancer. Laryngeal cancer or cancer of the larynx afflicts the voice box and widespread among the smoker community. Oropharyngeal cancer develops in the region  [...]

September 6th, 2010 | Head And Neck Cancer, News
Disease-Proof Your Life with the Anti-Cancer Diet – Part II
Disease-Proof Your Life with the Anti-Cancer Diet – Part II
A guide to the best cancer-staving foods, the ideal preparation methods and how much should be the daily intake. Fill up your grocery cart with vital vegetables Indole-3-carbinols (13C) & sulforaphane are duo effective cancer fighting molecules present in vegetables from the Crucifer Family like bok choy, cauliflower, brussel sprouts and Chinese cabbage that aid in detoxifying particular cancer-causative substances out from the body and could thwart premalignant cells from turning cancerous. They additionally impel self-destruction of cancerous cells and obstruct tumor development. The ideal preparatory method is covering and steaming them for a brief time period or then stir frying swiftly using some extra-virgin olive oil. Do not boil broccoli, cabbage as it obliterates cancer-combatant  [...]

September 1st, 2010 | Cancer Prevention