cancer prevention

Daily multivitamin reduces cancer risk, offering enormous medical potential
10/17/2012 - 13:48

One of the largest, longest, placebo-controlled clinical trials ever done on the use of a daily multivitamin/mineral to prevent cancer in men has shown a remarkable 8 percent drop in overall cancers during a 13-year study period – findings that may have repercussions on health care around the world.

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Commonly used painkillers may protect against skin cancer
05/29/2012 - 07:23

A new study suggests that aspirin and other similar painkillers may help protect against skin cancer. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the findings indicate that skin cancer prevention may be added to the benefits of these commonly used medications.

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How Cost-Effective Are U.S. Cancer Prevention Services?
03/21/2012 - 07:46

Prevention is better than cure; however, when it comes to screening for cancer new research shows that U.S. health services are not as cost-effective as international, and publically run, counterparts. The research, published in The Milbank Quarterly, compares U.S. screening services to screening in the Netherlands and found that while three to four times more screening took place in the United States, the rates of mortality were similar.

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Dietary fish oil may be a cancer chemopreventive agent
11/19/2011 - 20:20

Researchers now suggest that fish oil may have the potential to be developed as a cancer chemopreventive agent. Environmental carcinogens termed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons can bind to DNA to form DNA adducts (additional products), which may in turn lead to mutations in critical genes, causing cancer. They found a reduced level of DNA adducts in animals treated with fish oil.

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