About Smoking is the most important preventable cause of cancer in the world.Cigarette smoking is harmful to the smoker and also nonsmokers who are exposed to the smoke. Smoking has negative health impacts on people at all stages of life. … Read More »
About Male breast cancer is a rare cancer that affects older men.Breast cancer normally affects women. However, there are rare cases where cancer develops in the male breast. Just as in the case of other cancers, an abnormal and uncontrolled … Read More »
What is Heart Cancer? A heart tumor is an uncontrolled growth of cells of the tissues of the heart. Tumors may be Primary when they arise from the same organ, or secondary when they spread from other organs Benign, when … Read More »
About Renal cell carcinoma is kidney cancer that affects the lining of the kidney tubules. The initial stages of the cancer are asymptomatic in most patients and this makes early management of the disease difficult.Renal cell carcinoma accounts for about … Read More »
A recent study investigated the levels of specific DNA fragments in the blood of ovarian cancer patients. The findings could eventually lead to a blood test that can make accurate predictions about tumor size and disease progression. Detecting DNA fragments … Read More »
The results of a phase III clinical trial suggest that light therapy may be an effective, nonsurgical therapy for men with low-risk prostate cancer, after finding that almost half of study participants with the disease went into complete remission after … Read More »
Over the last 25 years, the detection and management of breast cancer has changed significantly. A new analysis shows that, over this period, rates of death to breast cancer have fallen in most of the 47 countries examined. However, it … Read More »
The potential for photodynamic therapy to treat cancer is limited by the fact that light cannot penetrate deep inside tissue. Now, a new approach that uses microwaves to activate nanoparticles could overcome this problem and shows promise as a way … Read More »
The number and severity of side effects that women with breast cancer experience after receiving hormone therapies like tamoxifen are shaped by their expectations. Women expecting to suffer worse and more side effects are found to experience nearly twice as … Read More »
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Aug. 24, 2016 (HealthDay News) — Cancer is on track to become the leading cause of death in the United States, closing in on heart disease as America’s number one killer, a new … Read More »