Oct 21st, 2012
By Alemayehu G. Mariam October is international Breast Cancer Awareness month. Throughout the month, public and private organizations in many countries promote programs and activities aimed at breast cancer risk reduction, early detection, treatment and research. It is well-established that breast ca...
Sep 26th, 2011
Thousands more women could beat breast cancer if they were given chemotherapy at the same time as radiotherapy, British scientists claim. They have discovered patients who are given the two treatments simultaneously increase their chance of being cured by a third. Normally women with breast cancer fi...
Apr 8th, 2011
Drinking a ‘safe’ amount of alcohol below the recommended daily limit increases the risk of developing cancer, with the danger remaining even if you become teetotal, experts say. New research shows that one in ten cancers in men and one in 33 in women in Britain is caused b Get My Boyfriend To Want M...
Mar 2nd, 2011
Women who have smoked are at greater risk of developing breast cancer in later life – even if they gave up the habit decades earlier. According to a study, women are 16 per cent more likely to suffer from the disease after the menopause – when most cases are diagnosed – if they smoke. The […]...
Jan 21st, 2011
Women who have survived childhood cancer could benefit if they breastfeed their own children, according to research. Cancer survivors are often at increased risk of conditions such as obesity and weak bones. Scientists from St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis concluded that breastfe...
Dec 22nd, 2010
TORONTO – A comparison of cancer survival rates in six developed countries puts Canada in the top three alongside Australia and Sweden, and ahead of Norway, Denmark and the U.K. The study, initiated in the United Kingdom and published online Tuesday in The Lancet, examined survival rates for br...