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‘Bad’ Cholesterol: It may protect against cancer

People who try to reduce the risk of heart disease by lowering their levels of the ‘bad’ LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol may develop cancer instead. more »

Breast Cancer Survival: It may have nothing to do with your genes

Breast cancer survival may not have as much to do with your genes as scientists like to tell us. Women with mutations in genes known as BRCA 1 and 2 were thought to have the more deadly version of br... more »

Radiotherapy: It causes heart problems, a fact the radiologist has known for 40 years

Radiologists have known for years that radiotherapy for women who’ve had breast cancer dramatically increases the risk of heart disease. more »

Breast Cancer: Vitamin D – or sunshine – helps keep it away

Women who supplement with vitamin D – or who do a little sunbathing once or twice a week – reduce their chances of developing breast cancer. more »

Prostate Cancer: You can beat it with a healthy diet, even if you have a genetic predisposition

Can we beat nature? The good news seems to be that we can. Even people with a genetic predisposition for a disease can reduce the risk with a healthy diet, researchers believe. more »

Cancer: What are the early tell-tale warning signs?

What are some of the early tell-tale signs that you may have cancer? It’s far harder to detect than you might think, and some of the usual suspects – such as rectal bleeding – usually aren’t signs of... more »

Cancer: Death rate drops 60 per cent if you have someone to talk to

Yet more evidence of a link between the body and mind comes in a new study of elderly people with severe depression. more »

Can You ‘Catch’ Cancer? No, not even from a blood transfusion

Can you ‘catch’ cancer from the blood of someone who is precancerous? Implausible as it sounds, some doctors suspected that several cancers, and especially non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, could be transmitte... more »

Bowen's disease

A reader asked for thoughts and suggestions on Bowen’s disease, a preinvasive form of squamous cell skin cancer. more »

Prostate Cancer

The most common cancer in elderly men, prostate cancer depends on male hormones called androgens, particularly testosterone. The usual management of early disease is with surgery and/or radiotherapy.... more »

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The poisoned generation

Perhaps the most underappreciated health scandal in modern times is the fact that, every day, we are all subjected to some 80,000 drugs—virtually all of which have not undergone a single regulat... more »

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DNA: it's not destiny

When we become ill, most of us lay the blame at the feet of our ancestors: my heart problem is like dad’s, who had a dicky ticker; I’m likely to get breast cancer because it’s what m... more »

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