A SIMPLE blood test could one day be a more accurate way to test for the early signs of breast cancer than using mammograms to spot a lump say researchers, as Breast Cancer Awareness Month gets underway. They also hope the blood test could improve treatment by detecting whether breast cancer patients are likely to relapse and what drugs their particular type of tumour will respond to...
Tanning Beds Cause 170,000 Skin Cancers In USA Annually
10/03/2012
Indoor tanning increases the risk of developing melanoma skin cancer, researchers reported in the BMJ (British Medical Journal) today. Tanning bed users who are exposed before they are twenty-five years old are especially vulnerable to developing basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, the authors added. Tanning salons are very popular in Western Europe and North America...
Tanning Beds Cause 170,000 Skin Cancers In USA Annually
10/03/2012
Indoor tanning increases the risk of developing melanoma skin cancer, researchers reported in the BMJ (British Medical Journal) today. Tanning bed users who are exposed before they are twenty-five years old are especially vulnerable to developing basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, the authors added. Tanning salons are very popular in Western Europe and North America...
HPV4 Vaccine Is Safe For Girls And Young Women
10/03/2012
The HPV4 vaccine, Gardasil, is safe for adolescent girls and young women in routine clinical care, researchers from the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center in Oakland, California, reported in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. The vaccine is linked to a slight risk of same-day fainting (syncope) as well as skin infections within two weeks...
Is There Enough Evidence To Start Using Aspirin To Reduce The Risk Of Colorectal Cancer?
10/03/2012
Aspirin, the everyday drug taken by countless people around the world to ward off pain and reduce their risk of developing heart disease, may have a new trick up its sleeve - preventing cancer...
HPV4 Vaccine Sage For Adolescents And Young Women In Routine Clinical Care
10/03/2012
A study of almost 200,000 young females who received the quadrivalent human papilloma virus (HPV4) vaccine found that immunization was associated only with same-day syncope (fainting) and skin infections in the two weeks after vaccination...
Rheumatoid Arthritis Tied To Raised Risk Of Blood Clots
10/03/2012
A new study from Sweden suggests that patients with rheumatoid arthritis may be at higher risk for blood clots in the first ten years after diagnosis compared to the general population...
HPV4 Vaccine Is Safe For Girls And Young Women
10/03/2012
The HPV4 vaccine, Gardasil, is safe for adolescent girls and young women in routine clinical care, researchers from the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center in Oakland, California, reported in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. The vaccine is linked to a slight risk of same-day fainting (syncope) as well as skin infections within two weeks...
Across A Range Of Patient Risk Scores, Apixaban Found To Be Superior To Warfarin
10/03/2012
A new anticoagulant called apixaban is superior to warfarin in preventing stroke with consistent effects across a wide range of stroke and bleeding risk in patients with atrial fibrillation, according to Duke University Medical Center researchers...
Is There Enough Evidence To Start Using Aspirin To Reduce The Risk Of Colorectal Cancer?
10/03/2012
Aspirin, the everyday drug taken by countless people around the world to ward off pain and reduce their risk of developing heart disease, may have a new trick up its sleeve - preventing cancer...