Posts filed under 'Cancer News'
Breast cancer leading cause of death among Shanghai women
BEIJING, Oct. 15 – Breast cancer is the top killer of women in Shanghai, with the incidence tripling over the past 35 years, said medical experts over the weekend at a seminar promoting World Breast Cancer Awareness Month. There is one breast cancer patient among every 300 local women, the forum heard.
”Though breast cancer is the most [...]
Add comment October 16th, 2007
HK experts reveals lupeol in fruits helps combat cancer
HONG KONG, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) — A study found that a substance called “lupeol” contained in fruits may help beat head and neck cancer, announced the University of Hong Kong which made the result public here Tuesday. The study, conducted by the university’s Faculty of Medicine, revealed that lupeol, a compound rich in fruits, selectively targeted [...]
Add comment October 16th, 2007
U.S. Study: Higher education, lower cancer death rates
A new study in U.S. found higher education lowers the risk for black and white women and men, media reported Thursday.
Rresearchers collected data on 137,708 cancer deaths from 2001 involving black and white men and women between the ages of 25 and 64.
Researchers found that more education was associated with lower death rates from cancer [...]
Add comment September 13th, 2007
Asians In Texas May Be Seven Times More Likely to Develop Cancer
Asian-Americans may be seven times as likely to be diagnosed with certain cancers, according to the American Cancer Society and Melissa McCracken, first author of a study focusing on cancer rates in the U.S.’s Asian population, released earlier this week in CA, a Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
While Asian-Americans have a lower overall incidence rate of [...]
Add comment September 5th, 2007
A Cancer Survivor Story: The Power of Will
I learned the power of will during my cancer journey through a very unusual process: I called it “Shower Sequencing”. Since the cancer was in my neck and tonsil it was important to keep the lymph moving there. I discovered that a method of creating movement in the lymph was to first run hot water [...]
Add comment September 5th, 2007
But faith makes fate responsible for cancer
More than one quarter of humans believes that the fate determines, whether they get sick with cancer or not. To this result an inquiry of CAN cerium Research UK came. Women believe rather as men in the fact that planning determines its chances. Smokers believed by 50 per cent more frequently in it. In the [...]
Add comment September 4th, 2007
Asbestos and Its Dangers
Asbestos and Its Dangers
Asbestos is the name given to naturally occurring fibrous minerals that are contained within rock and mined in many countries. Asbestos has a number of valuable properties including physical strength, resistance to chemicals, non-combustibility and good thermal and electrical insulation. It is due to these properties that asbestos has been widely used [...]
2 comments August 31st, 2007
The Secret Internal Defenses of Your Immune System
The immune system can protect our body from injury and different invasions as long as they are not too serious, overwhelming, or the immune system is already weakened due to poor health.
The immune system has its own internal monitoring system that always knows when we are cut or sick. It even knows how to produce [...]
Add comment August 31st, 2007
Asians In Texas May Be Seven Times More Likely to Develop Cancer
Asian-Americans may be seven times as likely to be diagnosed with certain cancers, according to the American Cancer Society and Melissa McCracken, first author of a study focusing on cancer rates in the U.S.’s Asian population, released earlier this week in CA, a Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
While Asian-Americans have a lower overall incidence rate of [...]
2 comments August 31st, 2007
QuikChIP Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Kits
By: Stephen Jones
IMGENEX QuikChIP Certified Antibodies The Basics…
The principle of the ChIP assay is simple: selective enrichment of a chromatin fraction containing a specific target. However, the process can be technically challenging. It is with these challenges in mind that IMGENEX developed the QuikChIP Kit for chromatin immunoprecipitation. QuikChIP includes optimized ready-to-use buffers and inhibitory [...]
Add comment August 31st, 2007
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