Garlic (Allium Sativum) has the ability to prevent heart attack, blood clots, lower cholesterol and blood pressure, reduce gastric ulcer, detoxifying, killing bacteria/fungus/parasite, binding free radicals, and many more. But, did you know that it can also cure cancer? Various studies have indeed demonstrated the ability of garlic in preventing and treating ...

About Noni The fruit and leaves of Noni contain a complete nutrients. In addition to various vitamins, proteins, and minerals, Noni also contains natural steroid; xeronine and proxeronine; trace elements; alizarine, lysine, <em>sodium, capric acid, caprylic acid, kaproat acid, arginine, and antraquinone; phenylalanine, selenium, magnesium, and some others. Among those nutrients, there are ...

Early prevention of breast cancer risk is very important for women, because most of this cancer occur in women and only about 1% occur in men. Besides of expensive cost for breast cancer treatment, this cancer often lead to death incidence in women, especially in middle-aged women and older. Because of breast ...

For many women, there is no disease that is more sinister than breast cancer. Breast cancer raises fears associated with loss of body image and sexuality, surgery, and death risk. Meanwhile, current medications or treatments such as chemotherapy often have side effects that may harm or leading to serious complications, although ...

Who does not like Soursop fruit? This fruit was not only delicious eaten directly or juiced but also the flesh, seeds, and its flower are very useful in overcoming and preventing cancers as well as several other diseases, such as liver disease, rheumatism, ulcers, hemorrhoids, ...

Pleural effusion is excess fluid in the pleura or lining of the lungs. This is not a usual medical condition and usually not extremely concerned. However, for those with past exposure to asbestos, pleural effusions may be very significant and should be treated with caution. Pleural effusion is a common sign of ...

Controversy regarding to cell phones cause cancer still continued. While this technology has become part of everyday life, however the concerning related to side effects has growth from long-term use of cell phones recently. Moreover, some of previous studies found strong evidence that long-term use of cell phones can cause brain ...

Close monitoring of AIDS during adolescence and adulthood is important, because when the AIDS carried since childhood, then this population might associated with cancer risk of Kaposi's sarcoma; lethal cancer of tissues beneath the surface of the skin or of the mucuous membranes that can spreads to other organs (such ...

Since Bevacizumab (Avastin) approved for the treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma, the overall survival benefits has not yet been observed, although the positive effects appeared to extend progression-free survival in advanced colorectal cancer and recurrent glioblastoma multiforme. However, several studies showed that early therapy with bevacizumab for breast cancer and ...

Although radiation therapy is important part for many women, particularly in women with breast cancer, however, because the radiation close to the heart area, until now little data about the radiation impact to other organ for over multiple decades. Therefore, due to this, the researchers from Gustave Roussy Institute in France, ...

The relationship between smoking and breast cancer (BC) risk is remain unclear. Although, the carcinogen inside tobacco smoke may increase the risk of breast cancer, however, cigarette smoking also has antiestrogenic effects, which may reduce the risk for breast cancer. Due to this, the researchers initiated a review from the study cohort ...

Breast cancer is the one major cancer for which there is no consensus on the main causes. The risk factors that are know so far included related to reproductive history, dietary intake, physical activity or exercise, and some others possibly causes. However, according to the the researchers from Israel, the dark ...

Lymphatic mapping for melanoma patients with regional disease by sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is not useful when the tumor thickness is thin or thick. According to the researchers, SLNB can be useful when the thickness of tumor is intermediate and had negative nodes clinically. They suggest that if the thickness of ...

Colposcopy is well medical diagnostic for premalignant cervical lesion by magnified the view of cervix and tissues of the vagina and vulva. However, rigorous training of colposcopists may resulting bad prediction during coloscopic examination. Therefore, in the study that published in An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology of BJOG on ...

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a necessary factor in the development of almost all cases of cervical cancer. Meanwhile, despite pros and cons of circumcision that the procedure has medical disadvantages, and some religion guides must to do that, however, several cases of diseases showed ...

Although breast cancer awareness increasingly recently, however several complications due to vitamin supplements used during breast cancer treatment continues debately. Despite what their references for using this vitamin supplement during breast cancer treatment such as radiotherapy, however, there is very few studies have investigated the role of vitamin supplement use during ...

The urologists from California warn the clinicians for using the online tool of prostate cancer risk calculator that may underestimate the probability of having aggressive form of the disease for their patients, and suggested using that tool with caution. The senior author of the study for this prediction tool, a urology ...

Current observational study from Denmark among 53,816 women treated for early-stage breast cancer from 1997 and 2006 said that obesity in breast cancer patients increased metastasis and death risk, and adjuvant treatment such as chemotherapy and endocrine therapy seemed to be less effective after long term basis. The authors of the ...

Adjuvant chemotheray is a one important treatment for patients with stage III Colorectal Cancer (CRC) due to significant survival benefit. However, several previous studies show that rates only from 39% to 71%. In the population-based study of Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Result-Medicare that involved 17,108 patients with stage III CRC, including ...

On December 7, 2010, the media reported Elizabeth Edwards (aged 61 years), wife of former Senator John Edwards, had worse condition due to breast cancer severing. A lump in her breast has been noticed at first time in late October 2004 while showering in a Wisconsin hotel due to the road ...

Gastric cancer or stomach cancer often asymptomactic that can developed in any part of the stomach and may spread to other organs such as esophagus, lymph nodes, lungs, and the liver. Although this incidence are much enough worldwide per year and an estimated of 800 000 death per year, however the ...

A new study concluded that 8 types of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) (types 16, 18, 31, 33, 34, 45, 52, and 58) confirmed to cause more than 90% of all cervical cancers worldwide. For HPV types 16, 18, and 45, the findings said as 94% of cervical adenocarcinomas causes. Therefore the researchers advised ...

Although never smoke or no consume alcohol, those people with Human papillomavirus (HPV) face to the risk of having Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OSCC, a head and neck cancer). The most common OSCC were tonsillar cancer and followed by base of tongue cancer. This suggestion just published on October 13 in Emerging ...

There is public concern among women with breast cancer and weakening estrogen effect from soy isoflavones consumption. Therefore, in recent study the researchers investigated the benefits from this compound intake in postmenopausal women with breast cancer in conjunction with endocrine therapy. The findings suggested that soy isoflavone intake linked to reduce ...

In 2004, the U.S. Preventive Service Task Force (USPSTF) recommend against screening for testicular cancer as the screening was unlikely to produce any additional benefits over clinical detection. This conclusion become a guideline, moreover, no evidence to support screening for testicular cancer until today. Due to the USPSTF decided to update the ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than one million American per year diagnosed with skin cancer that related to sun exposure, and 8,700 death each year related to melanoma. Meanwhile, the marketing of Sunless Tanning lotions recently so aggressive with 'popular old warning message'; excessive sun's ultraviolet ...

Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) is one of favorite medical treatment for surgically menopausal, perimenopausal and to a lesser extent postmenopausal women. However, since the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) clinical trial report in 2002 that found HRT also increased the risk of breast cancer, coronary heart disease, strokes, pulmonary emboli, and one ...

Although the evidence that the chemical in Bisphenol A (BPA) may linked to heart disease, certain cancers, and abnormal brain development in children still sparse, however, in recent study that published as September 6th issue in Pediatric, the researchers caution that BPA-related compounds are common ingredients in plastic-based dental filling ...

Due to androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in men with prostate cancer increase the risk both fragility and non-fragility fractures based on recent findings, therefore the researchers suggest supplementation with calcium and vitamin D needed to reduce fracture risk, unless they have contraindications. In addition, lead author of the study, Dr. Shabbir ...

The hypothesis that personality has an effect on cancer risk or cancer survival should be terminated caused recent report said that studies so far failed to find any epidemilogical evidence. As August 15 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology, psychologist concluded that cancer patients should not think that their personality ...