The number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has fell in 2003. This is the first time since the nationwide data was compiled that the number of deaths has decreased. Nationwide data was first compiled in 1930.
Although the decrease in cancer deaths is small, experts are still hopeful that the trend will continue. […]

Research funded by the National Cancer Institute has resulted in a new type of drug in the war against cancer; these are the chemopreventive agents. Chemopreventive agents are drugs hoped to help prevent or reduce an individual’s chances of ever developing cancer.
Chemoprevention is the use of natural or synthetic substances to lower […]

Bone marrow transplants have been used successfully to cure some blood cancers, such as leukemia. These transplants require high doses of chemotherapy and/or radiation that destroy the patients bone marrow.
The bone marrow is full of blood stem cells, which are cancerous in patients with leukemia and other blood cancers. In bone […]

As you know, melanoma is a very serious form of skin cancer. A study perfomed at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City by Dr. Daniel Coit presents evidence that those who have already had melanoma are more prone to get it again.
The researchers estimate that the risk of a second […]

Vitamin D is the latest tool in the cancer prevention arsenal. A study from the University of California at San Diego Moores Cancer Center was published this week in the American Journal of Public Health. The study was headed by Cedric Garland, PhD. Dr Garland has been studying the effects of […]

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