Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths, with the highest mortality worldwide. Specifically, adenocarcinoma is the most common, which shows no obvious symptoms and may have reached an advanced stage when detected. However, updated treatments may help improve a patient’s condition or even cure it. Symptoms of Advanced Lung Adenocarcinoma Are Not Obvious…
Lung Adenocarcinoma Symptoms Often Spotted at Late Stage, Treatment Options Available
New AI Technology Detects Cancer Mutations in Minutes
HAIFA, Israel—A new Israeli technology that analyzes digitized biopsy images in real time enables the detection of cancer mutations in a few minutes instead of a few weeks. This artificial intelligence (AI) tool was an initiative of a young computer scientist who lost his mother five years ago to ovarian cancer. Dean Bitan, 34, told…
What Fingernails Say About Your Health and How to Maintain Them
Fingernails have many obvious purposes, such as assisting in picking up, scratching and separating items; however, many are not aware that they can also provide important information about a person’s health. Fellow of the Australasian College of Dermatologists and dermatologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Prof. Johannes Kern from the University of Melbourne, said that…
Study: Blood Disorder Treatment May Activate Cancer-Causing Gene in Some Patients
The current treatment for a group of blood cancers called myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) involves demethylating drugs that inhibit the growth of cancer cells. However, a multinational team led by researchers from Taiwan, Singapore, and the United States has found that the drugs may actually activate a known oncogene—a gene that under certain conditions can cause…
Burzynski: The Cancer Cure Cover-Up | Documentary
This film is only available in the United States because of territorial licensing. “Burzynski: The Cancer Cure Cover-Up” is the story of a pioneering biochemist who discovered a unique and proprietary method of successfully treating most cancers. This documentary takes the audience on a near 50-year journey both Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski and his patients have been…
Cancer Risks From Tainted Cosmetics
Two commonly used categories of hair products have come under increasing scrutiny after research has linked them to cancer or found them contaminated with cancer-causing ingredients. These add to a growing list of common cosmetic products that have been linked to cancer, following other well-publicized cases such as that of talcum powder. The use of…
More Canadians Living With, and Surviving, Cancer: Report
More than 1.5 million Canadians have been diagnosed with cancer in the last 25 years and were still alive in January 2018, according to a new report on cancer prevalence published by the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS). Among the Canadians with cancer, there were almost 1.7 million cancer cases, as one person can receive more…
Expert Explains Cancer May Be Metabolic Disease, and Shares a Cure
“Cancer is not a genetic disease, it’s a metabolic disease,” said Thomas N. Seyfried, a well-known scholar in cancer research and a Professor of Biology at Boston College. “Once people understand that cancer is a metabolic disease, then you will begin to see a very big reduction in death and greatly improved quality of life…
GSK’s Blood Cancer Drug Fails Main Goal of Trial, Shares Fall
GSK’s blood cancer drug Blenrep failed the main goal of a late-stage study designed to show it was better than an existing treatment on the market, the company said on Monday. Oncology is a key area of focus for GSK as a standalone prescription medicine and vaccine business and its shares fell 3 percent after…
Probiotics Are Becoming a New Front in Fighting Cancer
If you’re like most people, you think of probiotics—“good” live bacteria that keep your gut healthy—as something that might be added to your yogurt or taken with antibiotics to protect your intestinal microbiome from being compromised. This view of probiotics often extends to “prebiotics“—fiber-rich foods that the good bacteria in your gut “eat”—and “postbiotics”—substances released…
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