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Recent research indicates that drinking coffee lowers the risk of developing mouth and gullet cancer
Thursday, January 08, 2009 doctor.ndtv.com
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Recent research indicates that drinking coffee lowers the risk of developing mouth and gullet cancer.
Previous studies have shown a protective effect of coffee drinking on the risk of cancer of mouth and gullet, but few results are available from prospective studies. Researchers from Japan studied the relationship between coffee consumption and the risk of these cancers. They studied 38,679 subje
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Cancer vaccine has left Indian households confused and health workers worried.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 www.dnaindia.com
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BANGALORE: An advertising blitz launched by a multinational drug firm to promote its high profile but controversial cancer vaccine has left Indian households confused and health workers worried.
The 15-second commercials seen recently on Indian television urge parents to get their young girls inoculated with the vaccine Gardasil to protect against cervical cancer, the second commonest major cance
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Smokers that lighting up may make them fat down the road may be a more effective deterrent than harp
Monday, December 22, 2008 doctor.ndtv.com
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Telling teenage would-be smokers that lighting up may make them fat down the road may be a more effective deterrent than harping on the risks of heart disease and cancer from smoking.
Researchers from Finland did a long-term follow-up study of nearly 4300 twins born between 1975 and 1979. About 50 percent of the men and women had never smoked and 12 percent had smoked during adolescence. By the t
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olonoscopy - the viewing of the inside of the colon via a long, flexible tube inserted into the rect
Thursday, December 18, 2008 doctor.ndtv.com
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Cancer of the rectum and the colon is the second most common cancer in North America. Colonoscopy - the viewing of the inside of the colon via a long, flexible tube inserted into the rectum, is generally advocated as the preferred screening method for colon cancer and it can help prevent about two-thirds of deaths due to this cancer. But there are no randomized trials to support its benefit.
The
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A new study has suggested that olive oil may help fight cancer.
Thursday, December 18, 2008 www.indianexpress.com
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Washington: Extra-virgin olive Oil contains health-relevant chemicals 'phytochemicals’ that can trigger cancer cell death, says a new research.
The study published in the open access journal BMC Cancer sheds more light on the suspected association between olive oil-rich Mediterranean diets and reductions in breast cancer risk.
Javier Menendez from the Catalan Institute of Oncology and Antonio S
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Scientists have stumbled on a vital breakthrough in their fight against cancer - they can cripple it
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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Scientists have stumbled on a vital breakthrough in their fight against cancer — they can cripple its progression by switching off a particular molecule.
Metastasis is the ability of cancer cells to proliferate from a primary site and form tumours at distant sites, a complex process enabled by cell motility and invasion.
Crucial to our understanding of the process is identification of the molecu
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GlaxoSmithKline, is gearing up to introduce its last new product of 2008 - a cervical cancer vaccine
Friday, December 05, 2008 www.dnaindia.com
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MUMBAI: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the British pharmaceutical and healthcare giant, is gearing up to introduce its last new product of 2008 - a cervical cancer vaccine Cervarix - in the Indian market in a month’s time.
The multinational has already launched vaccines such as Infanrix/Boostrix (for tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis), Rotarix (for diarrhoea caused by rotavirus), and a breast cancer drug
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Tamil actor Prabhu Deva's eldest son, Vishal passed away yesterday. He had been diagnosed with bloo
Friday, December 05, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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Actor, choreographer and Tamil filmmaker, Prabhu Deva's, 13-year-old son, Vishal passed away at 3.30 am, yesterday. Vishal, who was loving called Basavraj, was the eldest amongst the three siblings; the other two being Rishi and Aditya. Vishal had been diagnosed with blood cancer last year.
The family was aware that Vishal's condition was terminal. A source close to the actor said, "Prabhu D
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A new study says that the size of your waist can actually predict your risk of suffering from premat
Friday, November 28, 2008 www.mid-day.com
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Mumbai: A new study says that the size of your waist can actually predict your risk of suffering from premature or early death. iTALK tells you how to keep that belly in check
A new study has revealed that extra fat around your middle, can dramatically increase your risk of early death, even if your overall weight is normal. Every extra two inches increases the chance of early death by 13% to 17%
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Diet high in saturated fat appears to increase the risk of cancer of the small intestine.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 doctor.ndtv.com
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Diet high in saturated fat appears to increase the risk of cancer of the small intestine.
The small intestine makes up 75 percent of the digestive tract, yet rarely do cancers develop there, more often showing up in the large intestine, or colon.
Identifying modifiable risk factors for cancer of the small intestine is important because the incidence of this cancer is rising. Previous studies ha
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