Vitamin D plays an incredibly important role in cancer prevention,survival and treatment. We summarized several reports on vitamin D andbreast cancer to give readers some ideas about the importance of thisvitamin. We will continue publishing more articles on this issue.
A study by researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Centerprovides an explanation why vitamin D may prevent prostate cancer andmaybe other types of cancer.
If you're convinced that you're selecting and eating the right foods, to keep lean, thin and beautiful, then you may have to reconsider your diet again. Experts opine that most people resort to unhealthy eating patterns which contribute to problems
People with bulimia have an eating disorder that causes them to binge on food and then, usually, throw up the food during binge-and-purge cycles. Some people may exercise excessively or abuse diuretics or laxatives. Although there is no known cause
It can take several weeks, and sometimes months, to determine if a particular cancer treatment is working, because it can take that long to observe any significant radiographic changes in tumor size or appearance," principal investigator Dr. Minetta Liu, of
If you are found to have [this type of colon cancer], then you should not be treated with chemotherapy. Surgery alone would be standard treatment," said Daniel Sargent, lead author of the study and a professor of biostatistics at the
The increase coincided with heavier usage of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) before surgery, according to the authors, who were expected to present their findings May 31 at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting, in Chicago.
Ustekinumab works by binding to two interleukins, proteins produced by the immune system that mediate inflammatory reactions in diseases like psoriasis. The binding stops the interleukins from reaching their specific receptors on the surface of cells.
The Dutch study, published in the May issue of Archives of General Psychiatry , supports previous speculation by researchers that vitamin D, depression and other psychiatric illnesses are linked, according to background information in the article.
The NK cells reduced by 60 percent to 85 percent human acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) and acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) cells in test mice with aggressive human leukemias, according to the study.
