Recently added articles from Nutrition Health Review:
Exercising after having a mastectomy.
Jun 22, 2006 ... Exercise can help patients regain function and range of motion and increase quality of life after mastectomy (breast removal). Carrie Myers Smith, President of Women in Wellness, has some suggestions for patients recovering from the operation: 1. Know when it is safe to ...
Large-scale survey of cancer gene mutations.
Jun 22, 2006 ... A Study led by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard University provided the first demonstration of a practical method of screening rumors for cancer-related gene abnormalities. The results constitute an important step toward the era of personalized medicine, in which ...
Genes set scene for metastasis.
Jun 22, 2006 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Metastasis (spreading of cancer) is the cause of 90 percent of deaths from cancer, yet little is know about its underlying mechanisms. Biologists at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York identified a set of genes expressed in human breast ...
Nutrition, genes, and cancer prevention: an interview with Tim Radak, Dr.P.H., R.D.(Interview)
Jun 22, 2006 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Q: How long have scientists known about the link between nutrition and ovarian, breast, and prostate cancers? A: For many decades, the role of diet began to receive attention in the early 20th century, when food-coloring dyes were found to be ...
Tests miss genetic abnormalities in high risk families for cancer.
Jun 22, 2006 ... Researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle wanted to see how many genetic abnormalities were missed by commercial genetic testing in families that were at high risk for breast and ovarian cancer. They looked at 300 relatives within families in the United States that included ...