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The Pill and Cervical Cancer
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Multivitamin use prevents colon cancer
Antioxidants cut cancer death by 37 per cent
How safe is your milk
Brown seaweed may fight the flab
Sense and Sensibility
Genotoxicity of acrylamide
The cost of living on the NHS
Taking the pill
Ready washed salads and chlorine
Older mothers linked to childhood leukaemia
Men behaving badly
Is HRT still on the market
HRT - the new thalidomide
Diabetes and colorectal cancer
Causes of Breast Cancer
Carcinogens in supermarket salmon
Aspartame comes under review
Acid reflux and cancer risk
Vitamin D link with Breast cancer
To sleep, perchance to beat cancer
The protection of fruit and vegetables
The EU Go Nuts For Christmas
Red Alert For Shoppers?
FSA argument continues
Come again - Regular Sex
Can Your Body Reverse A Cancer?
Aspirin the Cancer Beater
Move Your Lymph
Lycopene lowers risk of pancreatic cancer
Vitamin D deficiency
Melanoma - sunscreen and the pill
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The Pill and Cervical Cancer
Unprotected sex and cervical cancer WOMEN who take the contraceptive pill may increase their risk of cervical cancer, according to a major study published in the Lancet. In the study, ...
Cancer Prevention Research pre 2009
Listed below are articles about research into cancer prevention that affect diet and lifestyle. Click on the title to read the research.Anti-oxidants Cut Cancer Death By 37 Per Cent Aspirin The Ca ...
Multivitamin use prevents colon cancer
FIRST CLICK HERE AND READ OUR OVERVIEW ON COLORECTAL CANCER Multivitamin use lowers colorectal cancer risk The American Cancer Society reported in 2003 on a study running bet ...
Antioxidants cut cancer death by 37 per cent
Three large studies show antioxidants cut cancer rates and death from cancer Scientists in France have recently finished a major 7-year study involving 13,000 men and women aged 35-60. Call ...
How safe is your milk
A study in the American Dietic Association Journal two years ago, pointed out that Insulin Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1) levels are higher in women who drink a lot of milk and those who consume more cal ...
Brown seaweed may fight the flab
Brown seaweed may fight the flab.According to the BBC (September 11th 2006), brown seaweed (used as a flavouring for a number of Asian dishes) contains fucoxanthin, the pigment that provides the b ...
Sense and Sensibility
Sense And SensibilityThank goodness the MP’s in the House of Commons have shown some good judgement and corrected the non-sense Tony Blair and Patricia Hewitt had concocted as an anti-smoking law ...
Genotoxicity of acrylamide
Be extra careful when your chips are down.And now scientists have discovered the ’genotoxicity’ of acrylamide. The toxin found in crisps, chips, biscuits, breakfast cereals and crispbreads, indeed ...
The cost of living on the NHS
You may think that diabetes has little to do with cancer but increased insulin levels can push up oestrogen levels, which are linked to a number of cancers from prostate to breast. Also there is a ...
Taking the pill
Taking the pill is directly linked to Breast CancerWomen who have ever taken the pill are 26% more likely to develop breast cancer than those who have never taken it.43% of women aged 25-29 take t ...
Ready washed salads and chlorine
Fears that ready-to-eat packs of salad are potential health hazards, have arisen after the finding that the washing solution normally contains chlorine at over 25 times the level found in swimming ...
Older mothers linked to childhood leukaemia
FIRST CLICK HERE AND READ OUR OVERVIEW Using data from the British National Registry of Childhood Tumours, the Oxford Childhood Cancer Research group found that children of older par ...
Men behaving badly
FIRST CLICK HERE AND READ OUR OVERVIEWMEN really are behaving badly in the sun. Their incidence of malignant melanoma has increased by 12 per cent in just six years, warns Cancer Researc ...
Is HRT still on the market
Cancer Research UK has just published a report that half of all UK women aged 50 - 64 have used HRT and a third still do. What has actually happened since the 5 year American research study was ac ...
HRT - the new thalidomide
Professor Bruno Muller-Oerlinghausen, Chairman of Germany’s Commission on the Safety of Medicines has not minced his words. Following all the recent hard evidence linking HRT to increased cancer r ...
Diabetes and colorectal cancer
FIRST CLICK HERE AND READ OUR OVERVIEW Abnormal glucose metabolism seems to be linked to colorectal cancer. Research from Cancer Research UK and the Medical Research Council studied ...
Causes of Breast Cancer
Originally published in February 2003 iconThe density of breast tissue, a woman’s age and her BRCA1/2 status are the three main factors in breast cancer. But the New England Medical Journal 2002; ...
Carcinogens in supermarket salmon
The UK Government’s Veterinary Medicines Directorate have found traces of malachite green in salmon at Morrisons stores. The chemical, originally a dye for cotton, was historically used as a fung ...
Aspartame comes under review
The Samantha Dickson Brain Tumour Trust, which is helping to find a cure for brain tumours have funded a number of studies into the growth of malignant brain tumours in the UK. Brain Tumours are t ...
Acid reflux and cancer risk
Patients who have higher levels of acid reflux where gastric juices flow back into the oesophagus, are more likely to develop cancer. New research by Lin and colleagues at University of Medicin ...
Vitamin D link with Breast cancer
Originally published in May-June 2004 icon According to the Scotsman (March 23, 2004) low levels of vitamin D in the blood are linked with increased breast cancer risk. A recent study has shown ...
To sleep, perchance to beat cancer
Professor David Spiegel from Stanford Medical Centre in California has put together evidence that how people sleep affects their hormone balance and could be linked to cancer. One study found cort ...
The protection of fruit and vegetables
The ongoing Hiroshima and Nagasaki Life Plan Study has concluded that a good intake of Fruit and Vegetables protects against all cancers but specifically lung, liver and stomach cancers.
The EU Go Nuts For Christmas
As some people may have realised, there were few Brazil nuts in their shells available in UK shops at Christmas 2004. The EU decided that every imported batch must be tested for aflatoxins, a carc ...
Red Alert For Shoppers?
The Food Standards Agency (the Government watchdog on food) is proposing a traffic light scheme for foods, with red, amber and green symbols relating to fat, sugar and salt content.Apparently cons ...
FSA argument continues
As readers will recall, in May 2004 the FSA decided to publish a report claiming that certain vitamins were harmful in large doses. Dr Spreen an eminent nutritionist in the USA writes, ’The FSA ar ...
Come again - Regular Sex
FIRST CLICK HERE AND READ OUR OVERVIEWThe news all red-blooded men had hoped for has been finally delivered by researchers in Boston. Regular sex can help protect men against prostate c ...
Can Your Body Reverse A Cancer?
FIRST CLICK HERE AND READ OUR OVERVIEWThe answer is yes, according to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. In cloning experiments involving melanoma they concluded that whilst the body cou ...
Aspirin the Cancer Beater
The Mayo Clinic in the USA has come up with yet more research on aspirin. 1400 men studied over a five and a half year period showed that those who took a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (that’s a ...
Move Your Lymph
(Chris Woollams. CANCERactive) The lymphatic system in humans is an important part of the immune system. The whitish liquid flowing through it is called lymph and is important in preventin ...
Lycopene lowers risk of pancreatic cancer
Lycopene, a carotinoid and antioxidant found in tomatoes has been shown in research to lower the risk of developing pancreatic cancer, having previously been shown to have similar benefits with pr ...
Vitamin D deficiency
Can Covering Up From The Sun Lead To Vitamin D Deficiency? Vitamin D deficiency is rife in the Western world with approximately 80 per cent of people having low vitamin D plasma levels on c ...
Melanoma - sunscreen and the pill
Skin cancer risk factors - Suncreams have been found to offer inadequate protection against UVA, the more deeply penetrating form of sunshine and the contraceptive pill seems to double risk of ...
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