bladder cancer

Tart Cherries for Your Waistline and Heart, Yogurt for Your Blad...

admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:24:50 -0500

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Recent research has found that tart cherries are beneficial to heart health and your waistline, and yogurt can greatly reduce the odds of bladder cancer.

Bladder cancer detected via amplified gene in cells found in uri...

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) Counting the copies of a specific gene in cells gathered from a urine sample may provide a simple, noninvasive way to detect bladder cancer, a team led by researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reports in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Magnolia compound hits elusive target in cancer cells

admin — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(Emory University) The natural compound honokiol blocks survival signals from the Ras family of genes in breast, lung and bladder cancer cells. As a drug target, Ras is considered difficult to approach chemically.Honokiol comes from magnolia trees and has been used in Japanese and Chinese herbal medicines.

Patients unaware of link between smoking and bladder cancer

admin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(University of Michigan Health System) Even though cigarette smoking accounts for up to half of all bladder cancer cases, few people are aware of the connection -- including more than three-quarters of patients who have bladder cancer, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Pregnancy may help protect against bladder cancer

admin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(University of Rochester Medical Center) Pregnancy seems to confer some protection against bladder cancer in mice, scientists have found. Female mice that had never become pregnant had approximately 15 times as much cancer in their bladders as their counterparts that had become pregnant, according to new findings by investigators at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Their work appears online as a rapid communication in the journal Urology.

Extract of broccoli sprouts may protect against bladder cancer

admin — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:00:00 -0600

A concentrated extract of freeze dried broccoli sprouts cut development of bladder tumors in an animal model by more than half, according to a report in the March 1 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.