Obstetrics & gynaecology
HRT could raise odds for asthma
Millions of women who take hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to ease their transition through menopause may be unknowingly upping their risk for asthma.
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News tagged with cancer risk
Oncology & Cancer
Excess body fat increases risk of digestive system cancers
Obesity increases the risk of developing cancers of the digestive system and it is the person's fat mass, rather than size, that is the main obesity-related risk factor for these cancer types, according to a new study published ...
Jul 30, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Healthy lifestyle may help mitigate high genetic risk of cancer
Healthy lifestyle factors such as abstinence from smoking and drinking, low body mass index, and exercise correlated with decreased cancer incidence, even in individuals with a high genetic risk, according to results of a ...
Jul 28, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Smoking cessation after NSCLC diagnosis cuts mortality risk
(HealthDay)—For patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), smoking cessation after diagnosis is associated with a reduced risk for all-cause mortality, cancer-specific mortality, and disease progression, according ...
Jul 27, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Risk of psoriasis increased for cancer survivors
(HealthDay)—Cancer survivors, especially survivors of hematologic malignancies, have an increased risk for psoriasis, according to a research letter published online June 30 in the British Journal of Dermatology.
Jul 21, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Scientists link frailty and neurocognitive decline in childhood cancer survivors
Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have found a link between post-cancer treatment frailty and neurocognitive decline in young adult childhood cancer survivors. A paper on this work was published today in ...
Jul 21, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
The effect of acute exercise in humans on cancer cell growth
New research presented at The Physiological Society's Annual Conference Physiology 2021 shows that molecules released into the bloodstream during exercise (such as small proteins) can act directly on bowel cancer cells to ...
Jul 15, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Alcohol consumption linked to more than 740,000 new cancer cases in 2020
Four percent of newly diagnosed cancer cases in 2020 may by associated with drinking alcohol, according to a global study published in The Lancet Oncology, leading its authors to call for greater public awareness of the link ...
Jul 14, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Monitoring proves better than active treatment for low-risk prostate cancer
Men over 60 with low-risk prostate cancer could spend ten years with no active treatment, have a better sex life as a result, yet still be very unlikely to die from the disease, new research has found.
Jul 12, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Tool helps predicts who will respond best to targeted prostate cancer therapy
A new prognostic tool developed by researchers from the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and five other institutions helps predict which men with advanced metastatic prostate cancer will respond favorably to a novel ...
Jul 07, 2021
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