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The Link Between Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer And Indoor Tanning
Date: Apr-24-2013The widespread liking for sunbeds continues to place a huge amount of individuals at risk of developing non-melanoma skin cancer. Adding further concern to the link between sunbeds and non-melanoma cancer was a recent study carried out by the University of California, San Francisco. The results of the study were reported on the UCSF website, and predominantly warned that sunbed users are in greater danger the younger they begin to use indoor tanning equipment. Basal cell carcinomas are the growths that appear on the skin and these are categorised as the most common type of skin cancer...
Mammograms Reveal Response To Common Cancer Drug
Date: Apr-24-2013Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed a method for assessing the effect of tamoxifen, a common drug to prevent the relapse of breast cancer. The key lies in monitoring changes in the proportion of dense tissue, which appears white on a mammogram, during treatment. Women who show a pronounced reduction in breast density during tamoxifen treatment have a fifty per cent reduction in breast cancer mortality. This tool provides doctors with the possibility to assess whether a patient is responding to tamoxifen at an early phase of treatment...
The Epigenetics Of Pain In Endometriosis
Date: Apr-24-2013Most of us probably know at least one woman, and maybe quite a few more, with endometriosis. Despite the disease's prevalence, there is no consensus on the cause of it, the existing treatment options leave a lot to be desired, and there are too few ways for women to, at the very least, effectively numb the pain that the disease provokes. Scientists - who over the years have suspected hormones, the immune system, environmental toxins, genetics or some combination - still have a long way to go in terms of better understanding the disease's molecular bases. Researchers at the Joan C...
Oral Mucositis Treatment, Gelclair®, Launched In US
Date: Apr-24-2013The Swiss pharmaceutical Helsinn Group, a leading player in the cancer supportive care arena, have announced that DARA BioSciences, Inc., a U.S. specialty pharmaceutical company focused on oncology and oncology supportive care products, has launched Gelclair(R)into the U.S. market. Gelclair(R) is manufactured by the Helsinn Group and is an FDA-cleared product indicated for the treatment of oral mucositis. Oral mucositis is a painful inflammation and ulceration of the surface of the mouth and throat, which can result from a variety of cancer treatments...
Worrying Rise In Sodium Intake In US Over Last Decade
Date: Apr-24-2013Sodium intake around the world is well in excess of physiological needs (1) and public health authorities agree that chronic excess sodium intake can increase blood pressure and the risk of heart attack and stroke (2). However, despite recommendations to lower sodium consumption over the last decade, actual intake continues to rise...
'Revision' Procedures Often Needed To Manage Facial Dog Bite Scars In Children
Date: Apr-24-2013Dog bites to the face are a relatively common injury in young children, and often require repeated plastic surgery procedures to deal with persistent scarring, according to a report in the March Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health. In the study, Dr. Barry L. Eppley of Indiana University Health North Hospital, Carmel, and Dr. Arno Rene Schelich of Hans Privatklinikum, Graz, Austria, review a ten-year experience of the common dog bites of the face in children...
Potential Advantages Offered By Sheep, Minipig Models Of Huntington's Disease
Date: Apr-24-2013Scientific progress in Huntington's disease (HD) relies upon the availability of appropriate animal models that enable insights into the disease's genetics and/or pathophysiology. Large animal models, such as domesticated farm animals, offer some distinct advantages over rodent models, including a larger brain that is amenable to imaging and intracerebral therapy, longer lifespan, and a more human-like neuro-architecture...
The Effectiveness Of International Child Sponsorship
Date: Apr-24-2013Child sponsorship is a leading form of direct aid from households in wealthy countries to children in developing countries, with approximately 3.39 billion dollars spent to sponsor 9.14 million children internationally. A new study published in the Journal of Political Economy shows international child sponsorship to result in markedly higher rates of schooling completion and substantially improved adult employment outcomes...
14 New Genes Identified Which Could Have Important Consequences For Future Treatments Of Childhood Arthritis
Date: Apr-24-2013Scientists Dr Anne Hinks, Dr Joanna Cobb and Professor Wendy Thomson, from the University's Arthritis Research UK Epidemiology Unit, whose work is published in Nature Genetics looked at DNA extracted from blood and saliva samples of 2,000 children with childhood arthritis and compared these to healthy people...
Two Items Key To Decrease Symptoms And Prolong Survival For Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis Patients
Date: Apr-24-2013Lung cancer is one of the most common primary cancers that cause leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (LMC), when cancer spreads to the membranes surrounding the spinal cord and brain. Cases of LMC have increased because of the improved survival of lung cancer patients with the help of new advances in treatment. This is the type of cancer diagnosis facing Valerie Harper, who played Rhonda on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show...
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