Hematology/Oncology

Ever thought that a substance that is one of the major causes of cancerdefine can actually help in treating the deadly disease? Researchers from Stanford University in California are saying exactly the same. A new study suggests that the tobacco plant can offer the means to treat lymphoma, a form of cancer.

Drinking half a tumbler of broccoli juice a day keeps bladderdefine cancerdefine away! Exactly, this is what 79 year old, Ray has been doing for last five years after he was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2003.

Melanoma, a potentially deadly form of skin cancerdefine, is on the rise among young women in the United States, thanks to prolonged sun exposure and increasing trend of tanning salons, researchers at the National Cancer Institute report.

Starting July 15 Monogram Biosciences’s latest HERmark breast cancerdefine assay will be made available to doctors throughout the United States, the US based international biotechnology laboratory announced on Tuesday.

Tagged with a price that’s too high and unsustainable, health experts are now finding themselves in a catch-22 situation, typically trying to answer, “Whether a few months of life is worth $100K?” Genentech’s Avastin, a wonder-drug believed to be an optimal treatment for breast, colondefine and lung, is now facing a halt in approval for expanded use because of its price tag, FDA revealed.

A new cancerdefine treatment that promises complete cure against the disease will now be tested on humans. Tested on mice for up to 5 years, the miraculous treatment discovered at the Wake Forrest University Medical Center in North Carolina will now enter the human trail phase after winning the FDA approval.

A symptom questionnaire accompanied with a complete blood examination boosts chances of early detection of ovarian cancerdefine by almost 80 percent, researchers of a new study report.

Good news for obese people planning to go under the knife. Bariatric surgery will not only help morbidly obese people regain a normal lifestyle but also reduce chances of cancerdefine. According to a study conducted at the McGill University in Montreal, Canada, fresh evidence states that patients undergoing bariatric surgery saw reduction in the risk for breast and colondefine cancer besides experiencing tremendous weight loss.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill have discovered that they can use adult stem cell transplants effectively for healing fractures. This is good news for those people for whom fractures take longer to heal.

Career or motherhood? This question seems to hold relevance for women more than ever before after a recent study conducted in United Kingdom which revealed that affluent women are more prone to breast cancerdefine than people with disadvantageous lifestyles.