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Cancer prevention

risk of a number of cancers, including bowel and breast cancer. Maintain a healthy weight through a balanced diet and regular physical...

Colorectal cancer screening

effective: cervical cancer screening, breast cancer screening, colorectal cancer screening. Colorectal cancer...

Personalised invitations of Czech citizens to cancer screening programmes

cancer screening (men and women), as well as breast cancer screening and cervical cancer screening (women). Personalised... medical specialists: Clinical examination of breasts Mammography of breasts (women only) will be performed by a breast... invitations, breast cancer screening, cervical cancer screening, colorectal cancer screening,...

Leading colorectal cancer patient organisation calls on EU countries to improve poor standards of care

It causes over 50% more deaths each year than breast cancer, yet in many countries, breast cancer screening has been widely...

‘Junk DNA’ could spotlight breast and bowel cancer

DNA’ could spotlight breast and bowel... known as ‘junk DNA’, could help diagnose breast and bowel cancer. Their research is published in the journal Genomics... as chimeric transcripts - are more common in breast cancer cells. Five were only present in breast cancer cells while two were... DNA, chimeric transcripts, bowel cancer, breast...

Breath test could help to detect cancer

breath could be developed to detect lung, breast, bowel and prostate cancers, a team of scientists have discovered... could also identify the type of cancer - lung, breast, bowel or prostate - irrespective of a patient’s age, gender or l...

Alphavirus-based vaccine may slow some cancers

biomarker CEA, present in many malignant colon, breast, and lung cells. Read the whole article at...

World Cancer Day 2011: New physical activity guidance can help prevent breast, colon cancers

New physical activity guidance can help prevent breast, colon... reduce the risk of developing a NCD, including breast and colon cancers, by undertaking various amounts and intensities of physical...

Scientists identify new drug target for advanced bowel cancer

that an enzyme involved in the spread of breast cancer is also important for the growth and spread of bowel...

Physical activity linked to reduced mortality in breast and colon cancer patients

activity linked to reduced mortality in breast and colon cancer... activity is associated with reduced breast and colon cancer mortality, but there is insufficient evidence on the... (2012). Physical activity, weight control, and breast cancer risk and survival: clinical trial rationale and design considerations... activity, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, mortality...

Bowel cancer patients diagnosed through screening more likely to survive

save more lives. “Compared with breast and cervical screening, bowel screening uptake is worryingly low, particularly...

TCGA study shows colon and rectal tumours constitute a single type of cancer

common cancer in women, after non-melanoma skin, breast and lung cancer. The researchers observed that in the 224 colorectal cancer...

World’s largest cancer and lifestyle database revealed

added more than 2,600 papers on eight cancers – breast, prostate, bowel, pancreatic, endometrial, ovarian, bladder and kidney – and i...

New technology may enable earlier cancer diagnosis

studies have revealed that many cancers, such as breast cancer, are actually groups of several diseases with different genetic...

Study finds no evidence to link work stress to cancer risk

looked specifically at the risk of bowel, lung, breast and prostate cancer, and again found there was no link between any of these... stress, cancer risk, bowel cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, prostate...

Breast cancer gene provides vital clue to bowel cancer drug resistance

Breast cancer gene provides vital clue to bowel cancer drug... too many copies of a gene linked to breast cancer might be the reason why some bowel cancer patients fail to respond to... Livorno, Italy – looked for extra copies of the breast cancer gene ‘HER2’ in tumour samples from 170 advanced bowel cancer patients tr...

Invitation to cancer screening is an investment which will pay off in the future

of Czech citizens in screening programmes of breast, colorectal, and cervical cancer. The coverage rate of the target population... invitations, breast cancer screening, cervical cancer screening, colorectal cancer screening,...

IARC warns 'cancer burden growing at an alarming pace'

lung (1.8 million cases, 13.0% of the total), breast (1.7 million, 11.9%), and large bowel (1.4 million, 9.7%). The most common...

Colorectal cancer screening works; ‘irrefutable’ evidence that fall in death rates is attributable to screening programmes

Some of the resources currently being devoted to breast and prostate screening programmes, where the evidence of effectiveness is much... of over-diagnosis is low, unlike that seen in breast and prostate cancer screening. “The risk of bowel perforation with...

Launch of new European Code Against Cancer

participation in organized programmes for bowel, breast, and cervical cancer screening. This edition of the Code includes other...

Most types of cancer not due to “bad luck”, says IARC

for example those of the stomach, cervix, and breast, each known to be associated with infections or lifestyle and environmental...

A healthy lifestyle before diagnosis may improve bowel cancer survival

were also scored on whether or not they had breastfed. The greater the number of healthy behaviours a person had, the more highly...

The Czech Republic ranks among developed countries in cancer prevention

to nationwide screening programmes for breast cancer, colorectal cancer, and cervical cancer. Low participation rate of...

Scientists uncover four different types of bowel cancer

understanding that tumour types such as breast cancer, prostate cancer and now bowel cancer are actually multiple different...

Physical activity associated with lower risk of many cancers

has been associated with a lower risk for colon, breast, and endometrial... of the head and neck, rectum, bladder, and breast. The scientists controlled for factors such as age, sex, smoking status,... activity, colon cancer, breast cancer, endometrial cancer, cancer prevention, cancer...

New review concludes evidence for alcohol causing cancer is strong

oesophagus, liver, colon, rectum and female breast...

Excess weight linked to 8 more cancer types

of cancers of the colon, oesophagus, kidney, breast and uterus [3]. "Lifestyle factors such as eating a healthy diet,...

Public health in the EU: encouraging developments in the area of national cancer screening programmes

steep rise in national screening programmes for breast, cervical and colorectal... Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, said “Breast, cervical and colorectal cancer claim the lives of around a quarter of a... breast cancer screening, cervical cancer screening, colorectal cancer screening,...

New research confirms obesity link to 11 cancers

colon, rectum, biliary tract system, pancreas, breast, endometrium, ovary, and...

World Cancer Day: highlighting physical activity in the global fight against cancer

recurring. Research shows, for example, that a breast cancer patient’s risk of recurrence and of dying from the disease can be r...

Where body fat is carried can predict cancer risk

is linked to 13 types of cancer including bowel, breast, and pancreatic (Note 2). Dr Julie Sharp, Cancer Research UK’s head of h...

Preventing colorectal cancer: New report updates dietary and activity recommendations

incidence for 17 different cancer types plus breast cancer survivors. This evidence is analysed and interpreted by a panel of...

Focus screening efforts to ‘save thousands of lives’ from digestive cancers, say experts

digestive cancer screening lags behind breast and prostate cancer and UEG expert, Monique van Leerdam concludes; “Whilst we a...

CancerSEEK: Generalised screening for multiple cancer types

cancer, colorectal cancer, lung cancer, breast...

Cancer incidence continues to rise: 1 in 5 men, 1 in 6 women

on Cancer (IARC), GLOBOCAN 2018, lung cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, liver...

Eating foods with low nutritional quality ratings linked to cancer risk in large European cohort

49,794 incident cancer cases (main locations: breast, n = 12,063; prostate, n = 6,745; colon-rectum, n = 5,806). The researchers...