Health aNd Fitness Guide

Using vinegar and a halogen lamp to screen for cervical cancer is almost as effective as the more expensive methods used in the developed world, says a study by the Institute of Medical Sciences, Tamil Nadu, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer, France. Screening is done by wiping a woman’s cervix with acetic → Continue reading »

Researchers and medical experts have expressed hopes of a major breakthrough in cancer treatment soon with the development of vaccines for various forms of the disease. During a three-day international conference on environmental parasitology and community healthcare initiatives in Agra recently, E.P. Cohen of the University of Illinois presented his research papers on why cancer → Continue reading »

If your mom or her sisters never got breast cancer, you don’t have to worry, right? Wrong. You’re just as likely to inherit the BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations, the biggest genetic predictors of the disease, from Dad’s side of the family. → Continue reading »

Consumption of fried, grilled or roasted food may double the chance of women getting cancer, a study by Dutch researchers has found. Women who ate more acrylamide — a chemical produced when the food is fried, grilled or roasted — appeared to be more at risk. The experts said that other factors could also be → Continue reading »

Beef, pork, lamb and processed bacon, red-meat sausage, and poultry sausage can increase risk of cancer. The more red and processed meat you eat, the greater your risk of having a variety of cancers, said a study published in online journal PLoS Medicine from the National Cancer Institute, US. “Red and processed meat have been → Continue reading »