Could Your Immune System Be to Blame for the Spread of Breast Cancer?

Medicine & Technology Mar 30, 2015

For years researchers have been quite confused as to the contrary correlation between immunological responses and the spread of cancers. Though a strong immune system is often an indicator of a healthy attack against disease, in some forms of cancer it can also indicate civil war that will undoubtedly aid the cancer in the course of its infection. In particular, researchers investigating lethal forms of breast cancer have found shockingly active immune systems causing metastases of the cancer to other regions of the body, and now they think that they understand why.

Breast Cancer Patients Have Limited Knowledge of Their Disease

Jan 26, 2015

A new study published in the journal Cancer reveals that many women with breast cancer in the United States don't actually know much about their condition, with minority women being less likely to report accurate information about their tumors than Caucasian women.

Cancer Death Rates Spare More Than a Million Americans

Jan 03, 2015

According to a new report from the American Cancer Society, cancer is claiming the lives of fewer Americans than ever before. In the past two decades cancer death rates have dropped significantly by 22%, sparing the lives of over 1.5 million people in the United States alone. While cancer death rates have declined in every state, the report found substantial variation in the magnitude of the declines from state to state. Generally, states in the south showed the smallest decline, while states in the northeast had the largest decline. States in the south experienced drops in death rates of about 15%, with rates much higher in other parts of the country.

Study Shows How Red Meat May Cause Cancer in Humans

Dec 30, 2014

In the past, red meat consumption has been linked with many diseases, such as colorectal and breast cancers amongst many other. And while it has been strongly associated with higher risk of cancer in humans, as opposed to other animals, the mechanism for the meats' health risk have not been determined. But a recent study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences may have just discovered the science behind its carcinogenic effect, particularly in humans.

Lactose Intolerance Linked With Lower Cancer Risk

Nov 11, 2014

Lactose Intolerance Linked With Lower Cancer Risk, According to Study

Researchers find the relation between obesity, and Latina and Black women

Nov 03, 2014

Researchers find the relation between obesity, and Latina and Black women

Latinas May Have Genes That Help Make them "Breast Cancer-Free"

Oct 21, 2014

Genetic variant may protect some Latinas from having breast cancer.