cancer

Exposure to burning incense over long periods of time may increase the risk of respiratory-tract cancers, a new study by researchers from Statens Serum Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark suggested Monday.

Millions of people use moisturizers to treat their dry skin that causes severe itching. But, a new study published by researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey has expressed doubt that moisturizers can spur skin cancers.

Cancerdefine patients often think that they were “better off dead” and most had considered hurting themselves in someway. The “Journal of Clinical Oncology” stated that the incidence of suicide in cancer patients is roughly twice as frequent as that in the general population.

ImClone Systems Inc's biologic drug, Erbitux when administered along with standard chemotherapy to patients ailing from advanced non-small cell lung cancerdefine, prolonged the patients’ survival by nearly five weeks than chemotherapy alone, results of the company’s long awaited clinical trial revealed.