Browsing Tag: Cancer

Whenever I used to see an article on breast cancer, I would flip the page thinking, "Oh, it will never happen to me!" not giving it much attention. But it can happen to anyone.

Excess weight can now officially be added to the growing number of factors that contribute to cancer according to the UK's Million Women Study.

Sikhi has kept me alive. The ability to recite Jaapji in the mornings, and listen to Sukhmani Sahib whenever I feel weak is a constant reminder of what my husband tells me. My work isn’t done yet. I need to continue fighting and Sikhi gives me the strength to do so

The cancer care centre will be built over 10.75 acres for Rs 45 crore. It will be built in place of the old TB hospital in Fatehgarh area of the city. The hospital has been lying abandoned for years.

THOUSANDS of pounds have been raised by Sunderland’s Sikh community to help beat cancer in rural India.

“This is life. We just have to keep pulling on,” laughed Kaur. “Just like this train.”

"It's all about the steps."

“We now have the first evidence from living human volunteers that acetaldehyde formed after alcohol consumption damages DNA dramatically,” Balbo said.

The fact that what we eat is one of the factors that can result in a higher occurrence of cancer is well known. About 40% of all forms of cancer can be prevented by eating a well balanced diet, maintaining a normal body weight and engaging in a moderate amount of exercise.

A long-term study finds that eating any amount and any type increases the risk of premature death. Eating red meat is associated with a sharply increased risk of death from cancer and heart disease, according to a new study, and the more of it you eat, the greater the risk.

The genes could lead to new ways of diagnosing and treating hormonal breast cancer, also known as oestrogen receptor positive breast cancer, which is responsible for four out of five cases, or 36,000 a year in Britain. In particular, they found one gene which appears to drive the growth of tumours.

Many times, cancer patients respond very well to chemotherapy initially only to have their disease return, sometimes years later.

The chips should also be able to see when an abnormality turns precancerous. "You want to catch it early on,... to the earliest stages of cancer, and get it in stage one. Then the five-year survival rate is very high..."

Do you believe in miracles? If not, meet 60-year-old Vasu Bhardwaj, who was suffering from bone cancer two years ago and doctors had shown their helplessness to cure him. Today he is a fit man. There is no sign of malignancy in his body.

Even people who are not too fat may be at risk. Cardiovascular death risk seen especially higher.

At major cancer centers across the country, patients are putting themselves in a better "position" to cope with their cancer.

Vegetarians are generally less likely than meat eaters to develop cancer.

40 Kauragious Sikh women raised over ₤4,000 for Cancer Research as part of the Race for Life project at Cannon Hill Park

Locals call train No. 339 by a chilling name — "the cancer train."

They found capsaicin, an ingredient of hot peppers, triggers cancer cell death by attacking mitochondria - the cells' energy-generating boiler rooms.

People who drink their tea piping hot run a higher risk of throat cancer than counterparts who prefer a cooler cuppa, according to an investigation published Friday by the British Medical Journal.

Today, 13th March 2009, Gurmukh Pyaare Bhai Nirmal Singh jee (UK) passed away in the early hours of Amrit-velaa, having bravely accepted the Hukam of terminal cancer.

A vegan low fat diet combined with yoga and exercise can help fight prostate cancer, new findings show.

He is scheduled to cover the 500-mile journey on foot over five weeks and reach the House of Parliament in London in July nine.