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A combination of two drugs destroys precancerous polyps in the colon without effects on normal tissues, which opens a new avenue for chemoprevention of colon cancer, a team of scientists from the University of Texas MD Anderson progress report of the Cancer Center Publishing online edition of Nature. The system, as tested in mouse models and human colon cancer tissues in the laboratory, appears to be a problem with chemopreventive agents – must take the long term remains effective, exposing patients to the possible effects side, said lead author Wu Xiangwei, Phil. D., Associate Professor at the MD Anderson Department of Head and Neck Surgery.

“This combination may be of short duration and periodically to provide long term, which would be a new approach to chemotherapy,” said Wu

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Deterioration of the quality of food that people increase the intake of alcohol drinkers were also more likely to eat less fruit and consume more calories from a combination of alcohol and foods high in unhealthy fats, added sugars, according A new study by researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Ministry of Agriculture (USDA). The study of more than 15,000 U.S. adults found that increased alcohol consumption is associated with the food quality has declined. The article in the April 2010 edition of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.

“Heavy drinking and dietary factors were independently associated with cardiovascular disease, certain cancers and other chronic health problems,” said NIAAA Acting Director Kenneth R. Warren, PhD. “This finding raises questions about whether the combination of alcohol abuse and poor diet may interact to further increase the health risks.”

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Scientists have found a way to identify patients with breast cancer are likely to respond to a type of chemotherapy. The new test also predict that is unlikely to see the benefit of treatment and help save unnecessary side effects.

The results – presented by researchers at the European Cancer Conference in Spain – that doctors should be able to tailor treatment to patients who will benefit and avoid the administration of toxic drugs to those who are not rescued.

As part of the consideration of four large studies of breast cancer, researchers have discovered an abnormality on chromosome 17, called CEP17 is an indicator of “very important” that the tumor response to chemotherapy with anthracyclines resource.

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A new minimally invasive surgery to correct a deformity of the chest wall – often called pigeon – have been shown at an international conference of surgeons in the United States, Canada, Argentina, Chile, Panama, Puerto Rico, Germany, Spain and known as pectus carinatum Russia.Technically, the causes of the condition of the chest wall that are projected outward, maintaining patient surveillance chest like a bird’s chest. In recent years, surgery to correct severe cases is very invasive and involved cutting open the chest to remove excess cartilage. Due to the invasive nature of surgery, the condition often have not been corrected.”For many years the medical community pectus carinatum treated as a rhetorical question,” said Dr. Robert Kelly, a pediatric surgeon at Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters (CHKD). “Keel chest causes real physical and psychological problems for young people. We want physicians to understand that this condition should be treated. No child should have to suffer with him.”

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