Bone-marrow transplants - Q:Please tell me the success rate for bone-marrow transplants in patients with leukemia. L G, Norwich. ...

Cancer link to bone marrow transplants - Bone marrow transplants often used to treat leukemia and other malignant diseases dramatically increase the risk of cancer. ...

Bone marrow transplants trigger diabetes - Long term survivors of bone marrow transplants have a substantial risk of developing insulin resistance, impaired glucose tolerance and type II diabet...

Hrt new evidence of cancer risks - A major re-analysis of the worldwide evidence linking breast cancer with HRT has concluded that the risk of the disease increased in women using HRT a...

Endometrial cancer risk greater with tamoxifen - New evidence from two studies show that women who take tamoxifen to prevent or treat breast cancer are at greater risk of endometrial abnormalities, i...

Marrow transplants don’t work for breast cancer - Few stories in medicine are as sobering as the American experience with autologous bone marrow transplantation (ABMT) for treating breast cancer. It h...

Pesticides:more evidence of cancer risk - New evidence confirms that exposure to organochlorine compounds raises a woman's risk of developing breast cancer. ...

Minimising breast cancer risk - Maintain a healthy weight. Obesity increases your risk of postmenopausal breast cancer by 50 to 100 per cent (Am J Clin Nutrition, 1987; 45: 289). It...