Oncology Xagena
A study led by researchers at Dana-Farber found that Acetylsalicylic acid ( Aspirin ) has a potential treatment benefit in people who have colon cancer. The patients who took Aspirin regularly have a ...
Patients treated for early stage colon cancer fared significantly better if they exercised regularly at the level of an hour's walk six times a week. A person's risk of having a cancer recurrence o ...
The use of statins is associated with a 47 percent relative reduction in the risk of colorectal cancer after adjustment for other known risk factors. Statins are inhibitors of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglu ...
Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, found that women using Ibuprofen every day for five years or longer were more than 50 percent more lik ...
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center has reactivated a lung cancer chemoprevention trial studying Celecoxib, an anti-inflammatory medication also known as Celebrex. M. D. Anderson v ...
Randomized trials of short-term Aspirin use for prevention of recurrent colorectal adenoma have provided compelling evidence of a relationship between Aspirin and colorectal neoplasia. However, data o ...
Debate exists on how many cancer deaths are preventable in principle - estimates range from 50 percent to 80 percent - but most researchers agree that tobacco use ( mostly smoking ) accounts for the m ...
Aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs ( NSAIDs ), such as Ibuprofen, may significantly reduce the risk of esophageal cancer among people with Barrett's esophagus, a precancerous condi ...
In a study published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, report that Aspirin, combined with a promising new cancer therapy known as tumor necrosis fac ...
A study using ovarian cancer cell lines showed promise in treating tumor by combining the chemotherapy drug Cisplatin with an Aspirin-like compound to make recurrent cancer cells less resistant to the ...
In a study of more than 3,000 older Australians, those with a higher white blood cell count, a sign of inflammation, were more likely to die of cancer. The study is published in the Archives of Int ...
Researchers are closely studying the link between inflammatory processes and tumor formation, while others are investigating anti-inflammatory drugs as a means to prevent and treat cancer. Antihi ...
Results from a five-year study have shown that regular use of popular prescription pain relievers may reduce the risk of breast cancer by up to 71 percent and may offer similar benefit in the preventi ...
Many cancer patients who have heart attacks often are not treated with life saving Acetylsalicylic acid ( Aspirin ) given the belief in the medical community that they could experience lethal bleeding ...
A study led by researchers at the University of Southern California ( USC ) found that men who took a daily folic acid supplement of 1 mg daily had more than twice the risk of prostate cancer compared ...
