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Saturday, October 24th, 2009

Soy Foods Can Cut Breast Cancer Risk in Half

Although improved treatment modalities and better early detection techniques have greatly decreased the impact of breast cancer it is still estimated that more than 40,000 women will die as a result of the disease in 2009, and although breast cancer in men is rare there will still be approximately 2,000 male cases of the disease [...]

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Fish Killing Algae may also Defeat Cancer Cells

A toxin called euglenophycin is a well documented fish killer, but years after that fact was revealed researchers have now discovered that it also has the potential to be an effective cancer treatment as well.
Back in 2002 a fish farm in South Carolina was hit by a rash of mysterious deaths amongst the fish in [...]

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

For Breast Cancer Treatment; Is it good to get the Healthy Breast Removed – For Survival?

A new study released that focused on women in New York State diagnosed with breast cancer has found that there are a rising number of women opting to remove a healthy breast when the other is found to be cancerous. Even though there is no proof of increasing survival rate after removing healthy breast along [...]