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The new medical reports suggest that hormonal drugs can cool the symptoms of hot flashes along with prostate cancer therapy. There are hot flashes that can be brought to suppression through therapies for prostate cancer. These are hormonal treatments that can be brought through the effects of cyproterone acelate and medroxyprogesterone acetate.
Androgen suppression can be considered to be a great treatment through advanced prostrate treatment works. There has been a study concluded through 311 prostate cancer patients. This suppression theory has been conducted with effective modes and can work as seen through the reports show remarkable improvements in these scenarios.
A new research has found that long term use of marijuana can increase the probability of an individual of developing the most aggressive Testicular cancer in his body. The intake of Marijuana can increase 70 percent risk of cancer.
The risk is basically to those individuals who are in a regular habit of using this Marijuana or to those who starts using this at early ages or in adolescence. Most of the individuals have this risk at the ages of 20s or 30s.
Some studies reveal that cancer is caused when Marijuana is correlated with the use of alcohol and habit of smoking. But till now it has been proved that Marijuana can independently cause cancer.
Scientists claim that they have found an absent link in the way cells shield themselves against cancer.
The researchers discovered how these cells lever a gene that is known as p53 and works against blocking the development of tumors sometimes.
According to the researchers, their findings have some important implications for diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
The study has been published in the Journal Genes and Development February issue and it was conducted by the researchers from the University of Dundee.
It was nearly 30 years back when the p53 gene was first discovered and it plays an important role to keep body in good health as it orders the damaged cells to kill themselves or hampered their further division.
In almost half of cancers, the p53 gene either becomes inactive or gets damaged and this damage of p53 allows damaged cells to divide freely and develop cancer.
A group of researchers at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Tennessee U.S stated on Tuesday said that
a child’s response towards cancer treatment is affected by genetic variations. These small variations are more than 100.
The researchers aimed to find genetic variations in inheritance that affect the cell functions in children. 476,796 inherited variations known as SNPs; single-nucleotide polymorphisms were examined. The SNPs influence the cancer cell number that is left after the first administration of chemotherapy, also known as the ‘minimal residual disease’.
To undergo the research, samples from two groups of children who were recently detected cancer patients, were taken. Around 102 inherited genetic variations were found in the results.
Mary Relling of St. Jude, whose study appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association, said, “We took those 102 and we tested whether they were involved in other related characteristics,”. It was found that 21 of these were related to active and early response to the treatments, and 21 amongst the rest were linked with relapse.
bone marrow, chemotherapy, lymphoblastic leukemia, single-nucleotide polymorphisms
Hormonal therapy may reduce the risk of colorectal cancer especially in those women, who are not taking hormone anymore.
The results published in journal of Cancer Epidemiology have created more doubts to already existing risks and benefits of hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
Previous studies have proven higher risk of breast cancer and heart problems, but a reduced risk of colon cancer. Recent studies have said that the age of woman can effect HRT. Such kinds of drug are specially given to those women presenting menopause symptoms.
The most recent studies have also proven that, the patients taking HTR therapy have lower risk of colon cancer.
breast cancer, colon cancer, colorectal cancer, heart problems, HTR therapy
