Get physical to reduce risk of breast cancer

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Get physical to reduce risk of breast cancer

Physical activity is a known strategy helping to reduce the risk of breast cancer, particularly in postmenopausal women.   It’s common after menopause for women to gain weight often in the abdominal area – belly fat – increasing the risk not only for breast cancer but also type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, and other cancers.  Now it looks like women should “feel the burn” even more to reduce their breast cancer risk. 

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New breast cancer risks

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New breast cancer risks

To the “traditional” breast cancer risk factors, researcher Sanna Heikkinen from the University of Helsinki and Finnish Cancer Registry would add two more: the use of hormonal contraceptives and hair dyes.

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Starving cancer with amino acids

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Starving cancer with amino acids

Amino acids are protein's building blocks and give your cells their structure. They also feed cancer. Researchers at the Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute and the University of Glasgow are trying to formulate a diet that will starve cancer but still give you the amino acids you need for your cells to create proteins.

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Breast, prostate cancer linked to air pollution

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Breast, prostate cancer linked to air pollution

The highest incidences of any kind of cancer have been tracked back to the counties hosting the poorest environments. The biggest impact was exerted by air quality and factors of the “built” environment, e.g., the presence of major highways and the availability of public transit and housing. Water quality and land pollution had no measurable effect on cancer rates.

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How to minimize your risk of skin cancer

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How to minimize your risk of skin cancer

As the days get longer and the weather warmer that means one thing - more time spent outside in the sun.  Already many of us are venturing outdoors enjoying the warm spring days but there is one thing we must always do before we head outside – put on our sunscreen.  We’ve always known sunscreen use of SPF 30 or higher prevent sunburns but now researchers have proved it can also prevent melanoma, the most common form of cancer in the United States.

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Socioeconomic Status & Cancer

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Socioeconomic Status & Cancer

What your parents did for a living, and where you lived, when you were born not only have an overall effect on your life, but could actually determine what specific types of cancer you will contract.

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The New Treatment for Skin Cancer

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The New Treatment for Skin Cancer

Using new and innovative immune-therapeutic approaches to silence "don't eat me" signaling proteins recognized by specialized cells of the immune system, University of California, Irvine molecular biologists and their colleagues have identified an effective way to combat metastatic melanoma.

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Cancer Risk In Night Shift Workers

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Cancer Risk In Night Shift Workers

A handful of large studies of cancer risk factors have found that working the night shift, as nearly 15 percent of Americans do, boosts the chances of developing cancer.

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Is sexual activity okay during cancer treatment?

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Is sexual activity okay during cancer treatment?

Sometimes the overwhelming adjustment to being a patient and the uncertainty of your future may make sexual activity the last thing on your question list. 

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Lower risk of many cancers with more exercise

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Lower risk of many cancers with more exercise

Exercise is well known for helping lower and protect our risk of many chronic conditions and now it looks definitive that the risk of cancer is one more disease to be added to this list.

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Physical activity lowers risk of 13 cancer types

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Physical activity lowers risk of 13 cancer types

Once again, exercise continues to prove to be a valuable asset in keeping us healthy.   A study showed an association of leisure-time physical activity lowering the risks of 13 different types of cancer.  

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