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New research has revealed that girls and young women who exercise regularly between the ages of 12 and 35 have a substantially lower risk of breast cancer before menopause compared to those who are less active...


A new study has found that regular and long-term consumption of omega-3 fatty acids and oily fish can slash the risk of developing colorectal cancer by up to 40 per cent. Over an impressive 22 years of study, both omega-3 and fish intake were associated with cancer risk reduction in the colon and rectum, according to findings by researchers from Harvard and Columbia University...


Someone at Reuters Health apparently wants you to stop taking antioxidant supplements. Why? The reason seems clear. Just look at this recent Reuters headline: 'Antioxidants more likely to raise cancer risk.' There you go. You don't want cancer, do you? Then don't take antioxidants! Simple. Just one problem: This provocative headline is wildly misleading.


For more than three decades, optical colonoscopy (OC) has been the primary method of colon cancer screening. But an alternative method called computed tomographic colonography (CTC) has been developed over the past few years. Obviously neither method is a day at the beach, but is CTC as effective as OC?


A series of clinical trials is underway in the UK to test the anti-cancer effects of bilberry extracts. The studies, led by Professor Andy Gescher of the University of Leicester, will look at the potential benefits of bilberry extract against colorectal and liver cancer...


In yesterdays e-Alert I told you how lycopene (found in high amounts in tomatoes) could help advanced cases of prostate cancer.


New research suggests that tocotrienols, the less studied form of vitamin E, may reduce DNA damage considered an important trigger in cancer development) by about 50 per cent. Researchers from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and tocotrienol-supplier, Golden Hope Bioganic, found that daily supplementation with a tocotrienol-rich supplement (Tri E Tocotrienol) showed greater effects in the older subjects a sub-population with higher rates of DNA damage...


In study led by Dr. Burns, his UI team recruited 43 cancer patients with moderate to severe malnutrition. Each subject had experienced at least two percent loss of total body weight in the month preceding the trial. All of the subjects received concentrated, high doses of omega-3 fatty acids in fish oil supplements...


Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer affecting men in the western world and the statistics make worrying reading.


Whilst natural remedies should not be thought of as an alternative to conventional treatment for breast cancer, they can help to prevent it and there is some evidence that they may help to combat the spread of the disease (metastasis) to other organs...


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