and mean that people are likely to be able to enhance their mental wellbeing at the same time as preventing heart disease and cancer.
Cancer and cardiovascular disease are the leading causes of death among Taiwanese. When Professor Wahlqvist's study began in 1993 there was little apparent concern about dairy foods in contrast to a current belief that they may be harmful to health
and in particular raise the risk of cancer. The study showed such fears to be unfounded. We observed that increased dairy consumption meant lower risks of mortality from cardiovascular disease especially stroke
but found no significant association with the risk of cancer Professor Wahlqvist said. Milk and other dairy foods are recognised as providing a broad spectrum of nutrients essential for human health.
The study included 26 930 individuals (60%women) aged 45-74 years from the population-based Malmã Diet and Cancer cohort.
#Manuka honey does not decrease pain of radiation-induced esophagitis for lung cancer patientspatient-reported data indicates that
and causes discomfort is a common and temporary side effect experienced by the majority of lung cancer patients undergoing RT.
so that patients'do not forgo eating maintaining patients'positive nutritional status is vital during cancer treatment.
The randomized phase II trial enrolled 163 lung cancer patients at 13 cancer centers who were undergoing concurrent chemotherapy and RT.
cigarettes cause cancer beneath the image of an open mouth with a cancerous lesion and rotten teeth or the same image with the words Warning:
Quitting smoking reduces the risk of cancer? The answer depends on how confident you are in your ability to quit according to a study led by researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and published in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research.
The research which involved 740 participants and Three d. C. area institutions suggests that a mix of messages might work best to help convince some of the 45 million smokers in the U s. to give up the habit says the study's lead investigator Darren Mays Phd MPH a Georgetown Lombardi
population scientist who specializes in behavioral cancer prevention. The study found that gain-framed messages--those that stressed the benefits in quitting such as quitting smoking reduces the risk of death due to tobacco--were more effective for smokers who believed quitting would be Hard on the other hand loss-framed messages--the ones
According to records of the Institute of Ecology (INECOL) in Mexico there were six thousand cysts per kilogram of soil of the nematode
when the recommended amount by the European Organization for the Protection of Plants to not affect the crop yield is of just 40 cysts;
An unhealthy diet is linked closely to cardiovascular disease diabetes and some cancers. Eating a healthy diet is an important part of the strategy to prevent adverse health outcomes.
#Fighting prostate cancer with tomato-rich dietmen who eat over 10 portions a week of tomatoes have an 18 per cent lower risk of developing prostate cancer new research suggests.
With 35000 new cases every year in the UK and around 10000 deaths prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men worldwide.
and lifestyle recommendations reduces risk of prostate cancer researchers at the Universities of Bristol Cambridge
and lifestyle of 1806 men aged between 50 and 69 with prostate cancer and compared with 12005 cancer-free men.
The NIHR-funded study published in the medical journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention is the first study of its kind to develop a prostate cancer'dietary index
'which consists of dietary components--selenium calcium and foods rich in lycopene--that have been linked to prostate cancer.
Men who had optimal intake of these three dietary components had a lower risk of prostate cancer.
Tomatoes and its products--such as tomato juice and baked beans--were shown to be most beneficial with an 18 per cent reduction in risk found in men eating over 10 portions a week.
Our findings suggest that tomatoes may be important in prostate cancer prevention. However further studies need to be conducted to confirm our findings especially through human trials.
and body weight for cancer prevention published by the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) and the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR).
Only the recommendation on plant foods--high intake of fruits vegetables and dietary fibre--was found to be associated with a reduced risk of prostate cancer.
As these recommendations are targeted not at prostate cancer prevention researchers concluded that adhering to these recommendations is not sufficient
which inflammation--not just neuro-inflammation--is a factor such as rheumatoid arthritis Parkinson's and cancer. The research continues
For example many cancers are heritable and genome prediction can be performed to predict disease risk for a person.
Giving hope against cancer? The state of Nayarit in Mexico is one of the major producers of soursop (Annona muricata) at national and global level
because in Mexico cancer is a disease that is increasing among the population and scientific research shows that the compounds found in this fruit can encapsulate tumors
but this depends on the how much is consumed. Montalvo Gonzã¡lez indicates that once the results are obtained the process could lead to the development of products derived from the soursop as ice cream yogurt juice or puree;
#Eating resistant starch may help reduce red meat-related colorectal cancer riskconsumption of a type of starch that acts like fiber may help reduce colorectal cancer risk associated with a high red meat diet
according to a study published in Cancer Prevention Research a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Red meat and resistant starch have opposite effects on the colorectal cancer-promoting mirnas the mir-17-92 cluster said Karen J. Humphreys Phd a research associate at the Flinders Center
for Innovation in Cancer at Flinders University in Adelaide Australia. This finding supports consumption of resistant starch as a means of reducing the risk associated with a high red meat diet.
The above story is provided based on materials by American Association for Cancer Research. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) the Welch Foundation the National institutes of health the Gillson-Longenbaugh Foundation and the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas supported the research.
Exposure to biomass burning particles is associated strongly with cardiovascular disease respiratory illness lung cancer asthma and low birth weights.
and vegetable consumption is related to a lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease and cancer. However the results are not entirely consistent.
and the United states decided to examine the association between fruit and vegetable intake and risk of all-cause cardiovascular and cancer deaths.
In contrast higher consumption of fruit and vegetables was associated not appreciably with risk of death from cancer.
and vegetables the adverse effects of obesity physical inactivity smoking and high alcohol intake on cancer risk should be emphasised further.
and lipids resulting in cellular changes that lead to development of diseases such as cancer. They have a domino effect Dalaly said.
of which have the potential to boost the immune system and impact diseases such as cancer and heart disease.
and even some forms of cancer The World health organization WHO recommends a daily intake of at least 400 grams of fruit and vegetables.
#Health risks posed by third hand tobacco smokeresearch led by the University of York has highlighted the potential cancer risk in nonsmokers--particularly young children--of tobacco smoke gases
However a new study published in the journal Environment International has estimated for the first time the potential cancer risk by age group through non-dietary ingestion and dermal exposure to third hand smoke.
Using observations of house dust composition they estimated the cancer risk by applying the most recent official toxicology information.
They found that for children aged one to six years old the cancer risks exceeded the limit recommended by the US Environmental protection agency (EPA) in three quarters of smokers'homes and two thirds of nonsmokers'homes.
The maximum risk predicted from the third hand smoke levels in a smoker occupied home equated to one extra cancer case per one thousand population exposed.
and raise serious implications for transplant patients those with leukemia and people who suffer from severe asthma.
or promoted by oxidative-damage like coronary heart disease stroke and certain cancers. Overall organic crops had 18 to 69 percent higher concentrations of antioxidant compounds.
cell carcinoma'which describes the appearance of a highly aggressive form of lung cancer. Dairy products feature prominently in the medical lexicon:'
while cafã au lait describes the telltale skin pigmentation of von Recklinghausen's disease--a genetic disorder characterised by nerve tumours.
And'egg shell crackling'denotes the grating sound indicative of the bone tumour ameloblastoma. Fruit is also popular as in'apple
Benefits of carotenoidswhatâ's more according to the researchers the inclusion of carotenoids in a diet can help to reduce risk of developing diseases such as certain types of cancer heart disease or damage to vision especially those related to an aging population.
If we look at diseases of soybean we find that soybean cyst nematode (SCN) is at the top
One intriguing direction Radwan described that shows promise is that there may be interactions between M. phaseolina and other soil pathogens such as soybean cyst nematode (SCN) and sudden death syndrome (SDS.
or even actual skin tumours. â#oewe sometimes see squamous cell carcinoma on the heads of white outdoor cats as the result of chronic sun exposure.
Traveling waves model tumor invasioncell migration which is involved in wound healing cancer and tumor growth and embryonic growth and development has been a topic of interest to mathematicians and biologists for decades.
In a paper published recently in the SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical systems authors Kristen Harley Peter van Heijster Robert Marangell Graeme Pettet
and Martin Wechselberger study a model describing cell invasion through directional outgrowth or movement in the context of malignant tumors in particular melanoma or skin cancer.
Tumor cells move up a gradient based on the presence of a chemical or chemoattractant--this process is called haptotaxis.
In this paper the authors prove the existence and uniqueness of traveling waves to the model of malignant tumor invasion.
Oats are now the third largest food staple in China growing in popularity as that country deals with rising rates of cancer diabetes heart disease and intestinal issues.
Infection can result in anemia kidney failure and bladder cancer. This research shows it may have been spread by the introduction of crop irrigation in ancient Mesopotamia the region along the Tigris-Euphrates river system that covers parts of modern-day Iraq Iran Kuwait Syria
and may also cause bladder cancer We would expect these consequences in ancient peoples to have had a significant impact upon early civilizations in the region says Dr Mitchell.
#No evidence that soy food protects against endometrial cancer, study findsresearchers have found no evidence of a protective association between soy food
and endometrial cancer risk says a new study published (18 june) in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
Some studies have highlighted their potential cancer protective properties however research looking at the link to endometrial cancer has been inconsistent.
The study defined short IPI as time from the immediate preceding birth to subsequent birth of the index pregnancy of<6 months 6 to<12 months and 12 to<18 months.
In the follow up 112 women were diagnosed with endometrial cancer. Women consuming more isoflavones were older less likely to be current smokers alcohol
and soy food the researchers found no association with endometrial cancer. Neither higher consumption of total soy foods nor isoflavones were associated with the risk of endometrial cancer after adjustment for factors such as age alcohol consumption smoking BMI menopausal status coffee intake
and number of deliveries. Dr Motoki Iwasaki Epidemiology Division Epidemiology and Prevention Group Research center for Cancer Prevention and Screening National Cancer Center Tokyo Japan and co-author said:
Our study found that intake of soy and isoflavones were associated not with the risk of endometrial cancer.
Although the incidence of endometrial cancer is much lower in Asian countries the incidence rate has been increasing.
We also know that the consumption of soy foods among Japanese people is very high.
Grape phenolics serve as anti-inflammatory agents can reduce the risk of certain cancers and help prevent high blood pressure
and Community Tobacco Control Research (SCTC) Initiative funded by the US National Cancer Institute at the National institutes of health and published in the supplement.
#Gardens help cancer survivors cope, heal and growa diagnosis of breast cancer in 2010 hit Susan Rossman pretty hard.
A year later a pioneering study at the University of Alabama at Birmingham helped her reclaim her life from cancer's grasp.
I think that cancer can be the worst thing that ever happened to you or it can be a life-changing event--one that you do something with rather than letting it do something to you she said.
For Rossman the key was Harvest for Health a UAB study that paired cancer survivors and master gardeners from the Alabama Cooperative Extension System.
Wendy Demark-Wahnefried Ph d. R. D. is the associate director for cancer prevention and control in the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center.
She is intrigued by the link between cancer and diet. There is powerful evidence she says that a diet high in fruits
and vegetables is especially beneficial for cancer survivors. We asked the question: If cancer survivors started a vegetable garden would they eat more vegetables?
We found they not only ate more vegetables they also got more exercise. And their physical functioning improved dramatically she said.
since been expanded to many counties surrounding Birmingham along with the Cullman Montgomery Mobile and Dothan areas with support from the National Cancer Institute.
and increased physical function are means to an end--to keep cancer survivors living independently for as long as possible.
Loss of physical function in cancer survivors especially older survivors is a downward spiral so that many times survivors lose the ability to live on their own she said.
I didn't think about cancer every day. Shaddix of Maple Valley Nursery is a gardener not a psychologist;
which are associated with the image of cancer said lead author Shu-Hong Zhu Phd professor of Family
Although smoking rates among American adults have declined by more than half from 42 percent in 1965 to 18 percent in 2012 tobacco use in the United states is still responsible for nearly one in five deaths according to the American Cancer Society.
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health working with colleagues at several U s. and Chinese institutions used the broccoli sprout beverage to provide sulforaphane a plant compound already demonstrated to have cancer preventive properties
The study was published in the June 9 online edition of the journal Cancer Prevention Research. Air pollution is a complex and pervasive public health problem notes John Groopman Phd Anna M. Baetjer Professor of Environmental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health
Last year the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified air pollution and particulate matter (PM) from air pollution as carcinogenic to humans.
Diets rich in cruciferous vegetables of which broccoli is one have been found to reduce risk of chronic degenerative diseases including cancer.
#Identifying cyst-laden meat: Sarcocystis thermostable PCR detection kit developedconsumption of undercooked cyst-laden meat from cattle sheep
and goats may cause infection in humans. Researchers from Universiti Teknologi MARA have invented successfully a PCR kit
Sarcosytis spp are intracellular protozoan parasites acquired upon consumption of undercooked cyst-laden meat from cattle sheep and goats.
In humans cadmium can damage internal organs and cause cancer. At the same time iron is an essential nutrient for plants and humans.
#Estimated risk of breast cancer increases as red meat intake increases, study suggestsso far studies have suggested no significant association between red meat intake and breast cancer.
and later and many lines of evidence suggest that some exposures potentially including dietary factors may have greater effects on the development of breast cancer during early adulthood.
So a team of US researchers investigated the association between dietary protein sources in early adulthood and risk of breast cancer.
Factors such as age height weight race family history of breast cancer history of benign breast disease smoking menopausal status hormone
Medical records identified 2830 cases of breast cancer during 20 years of follow-up. Putting these real life data into a statistical model allowed the researchers to estimate breast cancer risks for women with different diets.
They estimated that for each step-by-step increase in the women's consumption of red meat there was a step-by-step increase in the risk of getting breast cancer over the 20 year study period.
Specifically the statistical model worked out the number of cases of breast cancer during the total years of follow up for all the women in the study (rate/person years.
For example the model estimated that there would be 493 cases of breast cancer over 306298 person years among women with the lowest intake of red meat.
This compared with 553 cases per 31169 person years among women with the highest intake.
This translated to an estimate that higher intake of red meat was associated with a 22%increased risk of breast cancer overall.
Each additional serving per day of red meat was associated with a 13%increase in risk of breast cancer (12%in premenopausal and 8%in postmenopausal women.
In contrast estimates showed a lower risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women with higher consumption of poultry.
Substituting one serving per day of poultry for one serving per day of red meat--in the statistical model--was associated with a 17%lower risk of breast cancer overall and a 24%lower risk of postmenopausal breast cancer.
Furthermore substituting one serving per day of combined legumes nuts poultry and fish for one serving per day of red meat was associated with a 14%lower risk of breast cancer overall and premenopausal breast cancer.
The authors conclude that higher red meat intake in early adulthood may be a risk factor for breast cancer
and replacing red meat with a combination of legumes poultry nuts and fish may reduce the risk of breast cancer.
and risk of breast cancer is needed they add. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by BMJ-British Medical Journal.
#Limiting carbs could reduce breast cancer recurrence in women with positive IGF1 receptordartmouth researchers have found that reducing carbohydrate intake could reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence among women
whose tumor tissue is positive for the IGF-1 receptor. The study Risk of Breast cancer Recurrence Associated with Carbohydrate Intake
and Tissue Expression of IGFI Receptor will appear in the July issue of Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention.
There is a growing body of research demonstrating associations between obesity diabetes and cancer risk said lead author Jennifer A. Emond an instructor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine at the Geisel School of medicine at Dartmouth College.
There are similarities between the biological pathways that underlie all of these conditions and there is some evidence to suggest that over-activation of the insulin/insulin-like growth factor axis which increases the availability of IGF1 in the blood may relate to a poor prognosis among breast cancer survivors.
Receptors for IGF1 have been found in breast tumor tissue and expression of those receptors may contribute to treatment resistance among breast cancer survivors.
Since diet can influence insulin activation the researchers wondered whether diet could impact breast cancer prognosis based on expression of the IGF1 receptor in the primary breast tumor tissue.
Using an unusual approach this study assessed the combined association of two factors implicated in tumor growth--carbohydrate intake
and IGF1 receptor status--to test whether activating the insulin/insulin-like growth-factor axis can impact breast cancer
Since carbohydrates stimulate the biological pathway that can increase concentrations of IGF1 the researchers focused on carbohydrate intake.
The women they studied were part of a larger intervention trial called the Women's Healthy Eating
We found an association between increased breast cancer recurrence in women with a primary breast cancer tumor that was positive for the IGF1 receptor
We further found that a decreased carbohydrate intake was associated with decreased breast cancer recurrence for these women.
This is the first study to suggest that it might be possible to personalize recommended diets for breast cancer survivors based on the molecular characteristics of their primary tumor.
and Emond notes that breast cancer survivors should not be concerned about dramatically lowering their carbohydrate intake based on this study.
what type of carbohydrate-containing foods may be the most important foods that breast cancer survivors should limit she said.
Breast cancer survivors should continue to follow a plant-based dietary pattern as suggested by the American Association for Cancer Research and the American Cancer Association
advisor of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research center Seattle Washington. Roughly 60 percent of the world's population lives in Asia where approximately half of men are tobacco smokers.
Among men who had smoked ever there was an elevated risk of death from cardiovascular disease (CVD) cancer or respiratory diseases in all of the geographic regions in 2004.
The association with cancer risk was quite consistent across study populations. Men who had smoked were nearly twice as likely to die from cancer especially lung cancer
but there was also an elevated risk of death from cancers of the head and neck esophagus stomach colorectum liver pancreas and bladder--all diseases that have been linked to smoking in previous studies according to the authors.
Men who had smoked ever tobacco were approximately 50 percent more likely to die from respiratory diseases than those who had smoked not.
While women in most Asian regions are far less likely to smoke than men the study also found an increased risk of death from cancer CVD and respiratory diseases among East Asian women.
Approximately 16.7 percent of lung cancer deaths in East Asian women at least 45 years old were attributable to tobacco smoking in 2004
and the lack of effective tobacco control efforts smokers will continue to face an increased risk of death from cancer and other diseases.
or the appearance of cysts) getting worse or spreading; or scars develop as the lesions clear up.
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend increased vegetable consumption to reduce the risk of heart disease certain cancers obesity type 2 diabetes high blood pressure osteoporosis and kidney stones.
Cancer Journal for Clinicians. Obesity rates in the U s. have been going up for decades said University of Illinois kinesiology and community health professor Ruopeng An who led the new analysis with Roland Sturm of the RAND Corp. in Santa monica California.
The research supported by the National Cancer Institute examined the sequence of events around which university students first smoke tobacco from a hookah also known as a water pipe in an effort to determine the driving factors behind the decision.
Nintedanib is also is being studied in lung cancer. In our research we found that nintedanib could also slow the loss of lung function in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis said Noble.
This has led to the somewhat controversial hypothesis that the omega-6/omega-3 ratio is an important contributor to the risk of cardiovascular disease cancer and inflammatory disorders.
#Wide variation in lung cancer rates globally, study findsthe only recent comprehensive analysis of lung cancer rates for women around the world finds lung cancer rates are dropping in young women in many regions
or expand comprehensive tobacco control programs across the globe to curtail future tobacco-related lung cancer deaths.
The study is published early online in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. Lung cancer is now the second leading cause of cancer death in women worldwide.
An estimated 491200 women died of lung cancer in 2012 more than half (57%)of whom resided in economically developing countries.
Differences in smoking patterns account for much of the variation in lung cancer rates around the globe.
Smoking in females became common in North america Northern europe Australia and New zealand as early as the 1940s but remained rare throughout the 20th century in the developing world and in places with strong social norms against it such as the Middle east.
and compared contemporary trends in lung cancer mortality to identify opportunities for intervention. They used the World health organization's Cancer Mortality Database covering populations on 10 six continents to calculate age-standardized lung cancer death rates during 2006 to 2010 and annual percent change in rates for available
years from 1985 to 2011 and for the most recent five years for which data is available by population and age group (30-49 and 50-74 years).
Lung cancer mortality rates among young women (30-49 years) were stable or declining in 47 of the 52 populations examined.
Lung cancer mortality rates (per 100000) during 2006-2010 ranged from 0. 7 in Costa rica to 14.8 in Hungary among young women and from 8. 8 in Georgia to 120.0 in Scotland among older women.
The widespread reduction in lung cancer we found in young women in many parts of the globe is encouraging
And while decreasing lung cancer death rates are encouraging many countries have yet to implement the kinds of comprehensive tobacco control measures that have led to drops in other countries.
The above story is provided based on materials by American Cancer Society. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
#Water pipe smoking causes significant exposure to nicotine, cancer-causing agentsyoung adults who smoked water pipes in hookah bars had elevated levels of nicotine cotinine tobacco-related cancer-causing agents
and volatile organic compounds (VOC) in their urine and this may increase their risk for cancer
and other chronic diseases according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
twofold increase in NNAL a breakdown product of a tobacco-specific nitrosamine NNK which can cause lung and pancreatic cancers;
and acrolein that are known to cause cancer and cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. There was also a substantial increase in nicotine levels
The above story is provided based on materials by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length h
Overtext Web Module V3.0 Alpha
Copyright Semantic-Knowledge, 1994-2011