10 lifestyle habits that lower cancer risk dramatically Times of India AIIMS, Harvard gastroenterologist shares 8 drinks that can lower cancer risk: Which of these do you already consume? Hindustan Times Can the right food bring down your risk of Cancer? Times of India A cancer-fighting diet: Managing symptoms and food safety Mayo Clinic Press Eating habits can fight and fuel cancer Tribune India Source …
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Many Americans take a dark view of nicotine. The stimulant, which occurs naturally in tobacco plants, is what makes cigarettes so addictive, with smoking responsible for 490,000 American deaths each year. When people try to quit smoking, it’s often cravings for nicotine, and the surge of dopamine it releases in the brain, that foil their attempts. In this sense, nicotine …
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Mice and housing conditions All in vivo experiments were conducted in accordance with protocols approved by the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) and Stanford University IACUC. Mice were housed according to the standard guidelines with free access to food and water in a 12 h light:12 h dark cycle. For brain tumour allograft experiments, NSG mice …
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For the longest time, 10,000 steps has been known to be the gold standard when it comes to walking for health. Whether it is heart disease, blood pressure or even weight loss, walking 10k is said to be almost miraculous, but now experts say that one does not need to walk that much. Rather, research shows that daily walking of …
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Millions of men could benefit from a faster 15-minute prostate cancer scan that paves the way to a national screening programme. The new MRI scan takes half the time of the current one and costs half as much but was just as accurate at diagnosing the disease in a landmark trial. UK researchers say their findings are likely to lead …
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Mice This study was performed in accordance with FELASA recommendations and with European Union and German guidelines. The experiments were approved by the local ethics committee on animal experiments (Landesamt für Natur, Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz Nordrhein-Westfalen). Mice were housed in groups of up to five animals per cage and supplied with standard pellet food and water ad libitum with a …
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Assembly and quality control of DNA methylation data We assembled and processed with a harmonized pipeline14 (v4.1; see Code availability section) 2,430 bulk sample Illumina methylation array data of normal and neoplastic lymphoid cells from previous publications14,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30. As healthy control samples, this dataset contained sorted CD19+ B cells (n = 40), CD3+ T cells (n = 35), peripheral blood mononuclear cells (n = 6) and whole-blood …
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When I turned 60, I knew something wasn’t right. I lost weight. I felt drained. I had no appetite. I had a gut feeling — literally, abdominal discomfort — and a sense that something serious was going on beneath the surface. So I asked my doctors to test everything. Full body scans. Colonoscopy. Endoscopy. Cardiac function tests. Every lab test …
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Dormant “sleeper” cancer cells, long untouchable, can now be destroyed with common drugs, stopping breast cancer from returning. Credit: Shutterstock Researchers have discovered that dormant breast cancer cells can be detected and wiped out with existing drugs, dramatically lowering the risk of relapse. The breakthrough brings new hope to survivors haunted by the fear of recurrence. Breakthrough Trial Targets Dormant …
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