Category Archives: Cancer
Celebrity Prostate Cancer: Ryan O’Neal
Actor Ryan O’Neal diagnosed with prostate cancer The famous Love Story actor announces that he’s been diagnosed with the dreaded ‘male’ cancer, even as doubts linger over both prostate cancer vaccine Provenge and PSA blood tests used to diagnose it.
Colorectal Cancer Test: Colonoscopy or Fecal Blood Test?
Colorectal cancer screening: patients given a choice more likely to comply A killer next only to lung cancer, colorectal cancer is the third most diagnosed in men and the second most diagnosed in women worldwide — with over 1.2 million new cases and 700,000 deaths estimated to occur yearly. But it’s curable when detected early, [...]
How to Prevent Breast Cancer Recurrence? Cruciferous Vegetables!
Eating cruciferous vegetables lowers death risk from breast cancer and recurrence, study shows Higher consumption of cruciferous vegetables — broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, kale and cabbage — reduced breast cancer death rates, a large Chinese study found, suggesting that women diagnosed with breast cancer are more likely to survive if they ate more of these [...]
Celebrities With Cervical Cancer & Longer HPV Cases in Black Women
What do English Big Brother celebrity Jade Goody — the woman British televiewers once loved to hate and voted 100 Worst Britons in 2003 — and former Argentinian first lady Eva Peron have in common? Not only were they loved and hated with equal intensity when they were still alive — but both women died [...]
Tanning Bed Addiction is Linked to Rise of Melanoma in Young Women
Even as the rates of other cancers are falling in the United States, the rates of melanoma — the deadliest skin cancer — are rising dramatically, most especially among young women. That’s according to a new longitudinal study from the Mayo Clinic that spans four decades. According to researchers, the rise is most pronounced among [...]
