Category: Cancer

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.

It’s been barely three years since “Charlie’s Angels” star Farrah Fawcett lost died at 62 after losing a three-year battle with anal cancer — and now her long-time boyfriend, actor Ryan O’Neal, has just been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

In an exclusive statement send to People on April 15, O’Neal says, “Recently I was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer. Although I was shocked and stunned by the news, I feel fortunate that it was detected early and according to my extraordinary team of doctors the prognosis is positive for a full recovery.”

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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, and the two main screening methods — fecal occult blood test and colonoscopy — can detect the earliest signs. The problem is, too many of the people who have a high risk for the cancer are skipping the tests because of “squeamishness” and lack of awareness.

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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 vegetables.

Researchers from the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and Shanghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention adjusted for other factors that might influence women’s outcomes — including demographics, exercise, clinical characteristics and additional dietary behaviors. They still found that women who ate cruciferous vegetables during the first 36 months after they were diagnosed with breast cancer gained a reduced risk for death — either from breast cancer or from other causes. They also had a reduced risk for cancer recurrence.

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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 young of the same cause: cervical cancer.

She was loved by millions of Argentinian “descamisados” or “shirtless ones” — commoners, the poor and working class — mainly because of her fanatical devotion to charity work.

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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 young women.

Skin cancers are the world’s most common cancers, the World Health Organization says, with over two million cases occurring worldwide each year. These include some 132,000 cases of malignant melanoma — the most fatal of skin cancers.

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