Omega 3 Diet Reduce Cancer Risk

LONDON (Reuters) - An omega 3 fatty acid found in fish oils reduced the size of tumors in mice and made a chemotherapy drug more potent while limiting its harmful effects, Egyptian researchers reported on Thursday.
The findings, published in publisher BioMed Central's peer-reviewed Cell Division journal, add to evidence showing a range of health benefits from eating the fatty acids found in foods such as salmon.
A.M. El-Mowafy and colleagues from Mansoura University in Egypt looked at how an omega 3 fatty acid called docosahexanoic acid, or DHA, affected solid tumors growing in mice and how well it interacted with the chemotherapy drug cisplatin.
In March, U.S. researchers showed that a diet high in omega 3 fatty acids -- the kind found in fish such as salmon, mackerel, herring and sardines -- protected against advanced prostate cancer even in men more at risk of the disease.
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Study: A Heart Disease Risk Person is also a Cancer High Risk

Now, avoid heart disease, you may get free from cancer risk as well.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A protein that signals inflammation and heart disease may also show that a person has a high risk of cancer, researchers said on Friday.
People with high levels of C-reactive protein or CRP, already being studied for its links to heart disease, had a 30 percent higher risk of cancer, Danish researchers found. And cancer patients with the highest CRP levels were 80 percent more likely to die early, they found.
Five years after cancer diagnosis, 40 percent of patients with high CRP levels were alive, compared with 70 percent of patients with low CRP levels.
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Green Leaf Vegetables Reduces Cancer Risk

Beside the fact in this study that it is significant to men than women(?), we must take that consistently vegetables may lower colorectal cancer.

Our study, consistent with findings from the Cancer Prevention Study II Nutrition Cohort Study (observed that vegetable intake was related to lower risk of colorectal cancer for men but not for women. This gender difference may be partially explained by differential reporting errors. Studies have found that healthful attitudes, beliefs, and dietary habits were more strongly correlated with vegetable intake among women than among men and that women overreported foods perceived as healthy. Misreporting of fruit and vegetable intakes by women in our study would have led to exposure misclassification, resulting in an attenuated association.

In this large, prospective cohort study with 2,972 incident colorectal cancer cases and extensive information on diet and other colorectal cancer risk factors, the researcher observed that vegetable intake was associated with a lower risk of colorectal cancer for men but not for women. The association was stronger among individuals with very low intakes of fruits and vegetables, suggesting a certain minimum amount of daily fruit and vegetable consumption to avoid increased risk of colorectal cancer. Among subgroups of vegetables, green leafy vegetable intake was inversely associated with risk of colorectal cancer for men.

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Green Tea Drinkers have lower cancer risk

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who get plenty of mushrooms and green tea in their diets may have a lower risk of developing breast cancer, new study findings suggest
The study, of more than 2,000 Chinese women, found that the more fresh and dried mushrooms the women ate, the lower was their breast cancer risk.
The risk was lower still among those who also drank green tea everyday.
It's known that the rate of breast cancer in China is four- to five- times lower than rates typically seen in developed countries -- though the rate has been climbing over the past few decades in the most affluent parts of China.
Drink Green Tea is worthed.
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Aspirin may avoid colon cancer

Taking aspirin daily may cut one's chances of developing the polyps that can lead to colorectal cancer, giving people at high risk for the disease a useful preventive tool, researchers said on Tuesday.
Colon and rectal cancer kills about 630,000 people a year worldwide, and researchers are eager to find ways for people to lower their risk -- particularly those with a history of precancerous polyps, also called adenomas.
Bernard Cole of the University of Vermont and colleagues combined data from four studies involving 2,698 people from the United States, Canada, Britain, Denmark and France to see if daily aspirin prevented recurrence of these polyps.
The people who took aspirin were 28 percent less likely to develop advanced adenomas than those taking a placebo and 17 percent less likely to develop any adenoma.
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Family History Breat Cancer is Related to the Disease

If you are a woman with a family history of breast cancer but who test negative for two genetic mutations commonly linked to it, you still have a very high risk of developing the disease, according Canadian researchers said on Monday.
Reuters report that these women are fourty percent risk to develop breast cancer than the average woman, according to researchers led by Dr. Steven Narod of the University of Toronto.
"I think we were surprised that it was that high. But certainly at that level of risk, one would think about preventive measures," Narod, who presented the findings at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.
The women came from families with a history of breast cancer -- either two or more cases of breast cancer among close relatives under age 50 or at least three cases among close relatives of any age. Narod said it had been unclear exactly what risk breast cancer posed to women in these circumstances.
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Liver Cancer is Related to Diabetes?

Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have a significantly higher prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) compared to the common population, according to findings from a case-control study conducted in Italy.
The association of type (DM2) ... with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has been long suspected.
It should be a warning from the type 2 Diabetee, although the reports also add:
"However, the temporal relationship between onset of diabetes and development of HCC, and the clinical and metabolic characteristics of patients with DM2 and HCC have not been well examined," said Dr. Valter Donadon, at Pordenone Hospital, and co-authors note in the October 7 issue of the World Journal of Gastroenterology.
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Women with migraines are 30% Less Breast Cancer

Reuters report that women who have a history of migraine headaches are far less likely to develop breast cancer than other women, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
The study is the first to look at the relationship between breast cancer and migraines and its findings may point to new ways of reducing a woman's breast cancer risk, they said. They found women who had reported a clinical diagnosis of migraine had a 30 percent reduced risk of developing hormonally sensitive breast cancers.
Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among women worldwide, with an estimated 465,000 deaths annually, according to the American Cancer Society.
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