TUESDAY, Feb. 25, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Night shift workers face an increased risk of cancer, as their disrupted sleep cycle causes wear and tear on their DNA. But taking melatonin might help ward off this risk, a new study suggests. Folks on the night shift taking melatonin had aContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 25, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Breast cancer deaths are expected to increase during the next quarter-century, largely impacting the world’s poorest nations, a new international study says. About 1.1 million breast cancer-related deaths are projected to occur in 2050 worldwide, an increase of 68% from 2022, researchers estimated.Continue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Frequent exercise can help colon cancer survivors live longer, perhaps even outlasting average folks, a new study suggests. Colon cancer patients who were very physically active had three-year survival rates that were slightly higher than the general population, researchers report in the journalContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Many patients with incurable cancer aren’t getting care that could ease their suffering at the end of life, a new study suggests. Close to half of patients with advanced cancer received aggressive cancer treatment within six months of their death, researchers found —Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 21, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Adding a personalized mRNA vaccine to standard treatment could offer new hope for pancreatic cancer patients, a small yet promising study from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The study followed 16 patients, including Barbara Brigham, who joined the trial after a routine scanContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 21, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Cancer deaths among Black men and women in the U.S. have declined during the past decade in the United States, a new American Cancer Society (ACS) report says. The cancer death rate decreased 49% among Black men and 33% among Black women betweenContinue Reading
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THURSDAY, Feb. 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Smoking more than doubles the risk of unexplained strokes among younger adults, a new study warns. And heavy smoking is even worse, with stroke risk more than quadrupled among adults who smoke more than a pack of cigarettes every day for 20 yearsContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A mobile “Man Van” screening program detected dozens of prostate cancer cases in disadvantaged neighborhoods of London, researchers report. A team led by Dr. Masood Moghul of Royal Marsden Hospital in London reported its findings at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual GenitorurinaryContinue Reading
SATURDAY, Feb. 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Cancer screenings can save lives by detecting cancer early, when treatment is most effective. With an estimated 2 million new cancer cases expected in 2025, regular screenings are more important than ever, according to the American Cancer Society. February is National Cancer PreventionContinue Reading
Society says that without access to shared federal data, cancer research is compromisedContinue Reading