Ovarian cancer is a very important but often do not receive the necessary attention. Although not part of the most common types of cancer, is one of the most deadly if not caught early. Some early symptoms include recurrent pain in the stomach and pelvis, usually eating problems and excessive swelling of the abdomen.

This disease still has no effective screening test as many of your symptoms are linked to other ailments. For this reason it is always advisable annual checkups and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Obese women are more likely to develop this cancer, so it is recommended to follow a healthy diet.

An interesting point is that women who take birth control pills for a period exceeding 5 years are less likely to suffer this disease. Keep in mind that ovarian cancer does not differ in age and may suffer as a girl of 20 years as a woman who has already gone through menopause.

Researchers at the University of Medicine in New York in the United States have identified factors that cause the incidence of inflammatory breast cancer, a disease that is the growth of cancerous tissue derived metastases usually very quickly in the body patient.

The study was published in the journal “Nature”giving information data on this type of cancer and its origins.

On the one hand it was found that inflammatory breast cancer is a consequence of excess protein identified as eIF4GI. This protein on the one hand helps the cancer cells are more adhesive and is rapidly transformed into metastatic tumors.

Worth noting the extremely malignant nature of this type of cancer, at the same time is between 1 and 2 percent of breast tumors that invade the body affected.

According to experts, a new analysis that consists of five minutes is able to greatly reduce (% 40) patients with colorectal cancer fatal.

These tumors are the second leading cause of cancer death worldwide, after lung cancer. The vast majority of people die from colorectal cancer do so because the disease is not detected in due time.

The new test is called the Flexi-Scope and consists of a thin tube with a camera (called a flexible sigmoidoscope) that is inserted into the rectum to examine the lower intestine and remove any abnormal growth or polyp that can get to become cancerous. Removal of these polyps can reduce disease development by% 80 and also can prevent colorectal cancer deaths by about 40% of those who suffer.

In addition, Professor Wendy Atkin (responsible for directing this study) stated that this test combined with the traditional blood test can save thousands of lives around the world.

Unlike colonoscopy (which is commonly used method to detect this type of tumor), sigmoidoscopy does not require sedation and is much faster. In addition, the scientists said that patients should not undergo further testing to be tested after Flexi-Scope.

Finally, we mention that the doctor and director of the Cancer Research UK said that every government must give priority to add this test to the national cancer screening because it can save thousands of lives and prevented untold suffering to people.

Although there is no biological reason why more men die from cancer, it is believed that the reluctance of males to adopt a healthier lifestyle and visit the doctor, is widening the gap in cancer deaths among men and women .

According to a report by British experts in the cancers that affect both sexes, men are 60% more likely to develop disease and 70% higher risk of dying from it.

In research conducted by the British charity Cancer Research UK, the differences could be explained, considering that women take better care of their health. (more…)

A study published in the medical journal Gut by a group of scientists Netherlands, reveals that alcohol raises the risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, a tumor located in the upper esophagus.

The report also claims that smokers also have an increased risk of cancer of the esophagus and stomach, much higher. A study for 16 years over 120,000 people between 55 and 70 years confirms that smoking increases the likelihood of gastric cancer and esophageal cancer.

The risk varies between 60% and 263% among cigarette smokers compared to nonsmokers. Alcohol also affects, to a lesser extent, the study said.

People who drank the equivalent of about two or three glasses of wine a day were five times more likely to develop tumors than abstainers.

A person who has multiple family members with pancreatic cancer is six times more likely to develop the disease. The study shows that this risk is even higher, nine times the general population, if a family member developed cancer before age 50.

The cancer that starts in youth is a feature of many familial cancer syndromes but do not know if the family members of patients with familial pancreatic cancer at an early age had a higher risk than those of patients who later suffered his life. (more…)

The data are published in the online edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. ” However, these biomarkers become greatly elevated only in the year prior to diagnosis. Researchers do not know yet what stage the cancer is found at the time of the increase of the marker.

The molecules CA125, HE4, mesothelin, B7-H4, the decoy receptor 3 and espondina-2 have been identified as potential biomarkers of ovarian cancer but until now had not evaluated their behavior in the period before diagnosis, with the exception CA125.

The researchers analyzed the serum samples stored test Carotene and Retinol Efficacy of assessing the effects of beta-carotene and retinol on lung cancer incidence among individuals at high risk for the disease. The researchers identified 34 patients who were diagnosed with ovarian cancer and those with serum for the test and 70 control subjects even. (more…)