The Healthier Life
Receive valuable daily health tips and advice FREE by email
The Daily Health
Nutrition and Healing
Search our database of articles.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Keyword Search
 

Related products

13 FREE reports containing forbidden cures

FORBIDDEN CURES

Claim 13 FREE reports containing forbidden natural cures the medical establishment doesn't want you to have
more info...
How To Fight Prostate Cancer & Win

How To Fight Prostate Cancer & Win

by William L. Fischer
more info...
Super Foods Book

NEW! . . . SUPER FOODS FOR A SUPER-HEALTHY YOU

Unleash the secret healing power of Nature's ultimate foods - & 'programme' your body to remain free of illness
more info...
Cancer

Study Reveals Ways To Combat Anaemia Caused By Radiation Therapy


Date: 13/11/06
 
Keywords:
When breast cancer is treated with radiation, the body is assaulted twice: once by the disease and once by the therapy. Radiation therapy also causes anemia. A new study shows how women fighting breast cancer can easily and safely alleviate some of the harshest effects of radiation therapy...

When breast cancer is treated with radiation, the body is assaulted twice: once by the disease and once by the therapy.

A new study shows how women fighting breast cancer can easily and safely alleviate some of the harshest effects of radiation therapy. Red blood cells deliver oxygen from the lungs to tissues throughout the body. Anaemia occurs when the red blood cell count becomes depleted, resulting in fatigue, weakness, and hair loss in extreme cases. The two primary causes of anaemia are: 1) iron deficiency (often triggered by menstruation or internal bleeding), and 2) deficiency of two key vitamins: folate and vitamin B-12. Radiation therapy also causes anaemia.

In an upcoming issue of the journal Cancer, US researchers at the University of Michigan report on a study in which 20 women receiving radiation for breast cancer participated in an exercise intervention study.

To read the full article click here

Back to top

Click here to send to a friendShare thisPrinter friendly version



Post your comment

Name
 

Comment
(please add your comment
up to 1000 characters)
 

Email Address
(we will not publish this)
 




 Registered Office - Sea Containers House,
7th Floor, 20 Upper Ground, London SE1 9JD.

Agora Lifestyles Limited is registered in England and Wales
with company number 3303666 and VAT number GB 629 7287 94.

Copyright 2009 © Agora Lifestyles