Smoking, drinking linked to throat, stomach cancer (Reuters)
Reuters - Drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes appear to increase the risk of certain common throat and stomach cancers, Dutch researchers reported on Monday. Read more..
HealthDay - MONDAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDay News) — The risk of breast cancer for a woman with a strong family history is four times higher than that of the general population — even if she does not carry one of the breast cancer-linked mutations of the BRCA gene, a new study finds. Read more..
AFP - Regular physical activity can significantly lower a woman’s risk of developing cancer, but skimping on sleep can eliminate those gains, a study released Monday has found.
AP - If breast cancer runs in the family, women can be at high risk even if they test free of the disease’s most common gene mutations, sobering new research shows. The genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are linked with particularly aggressive hereditary breast cancer, and an increased risk of ovarian cancer, too.
Reuters - U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, battling a life-threatening brain tumor, returned to the Senate on Monday for the first time since July and pledged to work next year to expand health care for all Americans.
HealthDay - MONDAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDay News) — Doctors may someday be able to use five genetic markers to assess whether a man is at high risk to develop prostate cancer, a new study suggests. Read more..
Reuters - Middle-aged men who take aspirin or other “nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug” (NSAID) have significantly lower levels of a blood protein used to spot prostate cancer than men who don’t take these widely used drugs, a study shows. Read more..
A major study in Nature Nanotechnology suggests some forms of carbon nanotubes — a poster child for the “nanotechnology revolution” — could be as harmful as asbestos if inhaled in sufficient quantities. Read more..
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