Heart Health
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Beth Whaanga is 33 and was diagnosed with breast cancer and uterus in 32 birthday, but fortunately survived to tell the tale and decided to wear the scars of the disease to fight it.
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Annual mammograms in middle-aged women do not reduce deaths from breast cancer, this test is essentially as good as the physical examination reveals a new retrospective study of 25 years in Canada.
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Lung cancer is one of the most aggressive and causes more deaths. In 2011, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE), in Spain lung cancer was the third leading cause of death after ischemic heart disease and cerebrovascular disease, but while the figures for the latter two groups descend, cancer lung shows an upward trend. In 2011 died of lung cancer or bronchial 21,058 people (17,479 men and 3,579 women), 1.6% more deaths than in 2010.
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A new test to detect ovarian cancer seems to detect the disease at very early stages and, if confirmed in clinical trials, the test could become a routine for women.
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The amount and type of pigment called melanin present in the skin can indicate a person's risk of developing cancer in that organ. A study in which participated the National Research Council (CSIC) has found that the Raman spectroscopy technique is able to measure both parameters, for the first time, non-destructively.
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Prolonged use of certain medications for high blood pressure have been associated with increased breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women.
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Squamous cell carcinoma is one of the most common skin cancers both in Spain and in the rest of the world. Although this is not usually deadly tumor is unresectable and through minor surgery in some cases reaches highly malignant and metastatic stages are hardly treatable.
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From the Spanish Group of Patients with Cancer (GEPAC) express our concern and concern about the proposal to establish certain Autonomous Communities as therapeutic equivalents certain drugs belonging to the same family and share the same purpose but they are different molecules.
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The immune system uses various tools against pathogens that threaten the body. One is the production of memory T cells, specialized to remember these threats and attack the long term, for example after vaccination.
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Today has been presented in HM University Sanchinarro YOU a pioneering application developed for iPad and addressed to women suffering from breast cancer.