High oestrogen levels among well-fed and largely inactive women in Western countries may be largely responsible for the epidemic of breast cancer. Tests show that oestrogen is far more prevalent in modern Western women than in those from less developed societies.
Men exposed to pesticides on the job stood a 13-percent increased risk of getting prostate cancer. Men who worked as pesticide sprayers appeared to be at higher risk than farmers or those in other occupations involving the use of pesticides.
Eating too much food high in fat, such as butter, milk and meat, could put women at a higher risk of breast cancer, according to a paper published today.
A new study suggests frequent masturbation by men in their 20s provides protection against prostate cancer later in life. Scientists in Australia determined that men in their 20s who ejaculated more than five times a week were a third less likely to develop aggressive prostate cancer later in life.
Researchers at Georgetown University’s Lombardi Cancer Center and Yale University have identified two molecular predictors of breast cancer spread or metastasis. This may one day lead to tests of breast cancer tissue that will help physicians determine whether a woman’s breast cancer is likely to spread, or metastasize.
Early-stage breast cancer could be most likely to kill women who had severe stress – a family death, divorce, financial crisis -in the year before diagnosis, a study says.
Doctors in the US have achieved a breakthrough in developing drugs that repair lung cells damaged by smoking, which causes 99 percent of the most lethal type of lung cancer.
How long and how much you smoked, and how long it’s been since the last puff, make a difference in the risk of getting lung cancer.
Women who get regular mammograms could reduce their risk of dying from breast cancer by 28 per cent, new research indicates.
Researchers studying breast cancer have found that only a small percentage of the tumour cells are capable of moving on and creating new cancer elsewhere in the body, a discovery they hope will lead to ways to target the most dangerous cells.