Study finds radiation therapy for prostate cancer nearly doubles risk for rectal cancer
... radiation therapy for prostate cancer have nearly double the risk of developing rectal cancer when compared to men who opt to have surgery to treat prostate cancer. The study found that men who receive radiation for prostate cancer have about 70 percent higher risk of developing rectal cancer than those w...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for April 2005 (first issue)
...chemic time and long-term survival after single or double lung transplantation. (Graft ischemic time was defined as the interval between the application of the aortic cross clamp during donor organ removal and the reperfusion (restoration of blood flow) in the graft of the recipient.) According to the auth...Radiation therapy for prostate cancer nearly doubles the risk of rectal cancer
... undergo radiation for prostate cancer have nearly double the risk of developing rectal cancer when compared to men who opt to have surgery to treat prostate cancer, according to a study published today in the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) journal Gastroenterology . Men who receive radiat...Vigorously active adolescents are leaner, fitter
...nts in this study * and likely generally * need to double their amount of physical activity, he says. Parents play an important role by influencing how children balance their time, he says. "We still have the same demands for schoolwork. The body has the same requirements for fitness, but all these other ...Grandmothers' smoking linked to grandchildren's asthma decades later
...d whose grandmother smoked while pregnant may have double the risk of developing childhood asthma as a child...t the child's grandmother did-the child had nearly double the risk (1.8 times) of developing asthma. If both the mother and grandmother smoked while pregnan...Suicide in one partner substantially increases suicide risk in the other
...ners whose mental health was good. This was almost double the risk of men in the same circumstances, who ran nearly a fourfold risk. But men who had lost their partner to suicide were 46 times as likely to commit suicide themselves. This was around three times the risk of women bereaved by suicide. Men mig......th strands wind around each other in the form of a double helix with the base pairs acting as the 'stairs' in a staircase. The sequence of these base pairs stores genetic information. During cell division genetic material is copied and the enzymes responsible for this must be able to transcribe the base seq...Measuring enzymes at end of cancer pathway predicts outcome of Tarceva, Taxol
... on whether CDK2 activity was repressed. They then double checked those findings by "putting CDK2 back," Ueno says. "We found that the effects of Tarceva were reduced when CDK2 was given back to the cells, so this shows us that CDK2 is the real target of Tarceva. "This presents a concept that describes how ...Obesity adds risk of cardiovascular disease in siblings in families with a history of heart problems
...ates of 15.3 percent and 16 percent, respectively, double the rate in siblings with a normal weight. Accord...ht - 40 percent and 20 percent, respectively - and double the rate in siblings with normal-weight siblings. When compared to siblings with low FRS scores and...Newborn's first week may be critical period for developing obesity in adulthood
... gain is desirable for infants," he added. "Babies double their birth weight during the first four to six months. During the first week of life, however, a too-rapid gain in weight may increase the risk of future weight problems." After adjusting for other factors, Dr. Stettler's team found that each additi...Milk thistle does not reduce deaths from liver diseases, best studies find
... three times daily, is too low. "I would certainly double it," he says, "especially since at the current dose we're not seeing any improvement in acute viral or chronic hepatitis, and we've shown that silymarin is totally safe." "The problem is, there is no cure for viral hepatitis except bed rest and diet,...Diabetes and pizza: Slow and steady insulin delivery wins the race
...favorable range than a single dose of insulin or a double dose taken over a shorter period." This study titled, "Optimal Insulin Pump Dosing and Postprandial Glycemia Following a Pizza Meal Using the Continuous Glucose Monitoring System," was published in the April issue of Diabetes Technology & Therapeuti...Combination treatment improves survival for pancreatic cancer
A combination of chemotherapy drugs could double survival rates for pancreatic cancer, suggests a study published online today by THE LANCET ONCOLOGY. Pancreatic cancer has a poor prognosis. More than 80% of patients present with advanced disease at diagnosis, and mortality is high. A single chemot...Biologic therapies for bowel disease show promise in clinical trials
...led in the 27-week randomized, placebo-controlled, double blind trial and received either placebo or the study drug, which was prepared from extracted colon proteins. Trial participants were monitored for response based on the Crohn's Disease Activity Index (CDAI) and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnai...New kidney function test better than standard at predicting death and cardiovascular outcomes
... and that even a small loss of kidney function can double a person's risk of developing cardiovascular disease. "This study affirms the important link between kidney function and cardiovascular health and survival in the elderly. If these findings are confirmed in other studies, cystatin-C could be a usefu...Combating fatigue associated with liver disease
...treal, and Calgary) were included in a randomized, double blind placebo-controlled crossover trial, in which they received the drug in one four week period and a placebo in the other. The crossover design was chosen because fatigue is a subjective symptom and taking both the drug and the placebo in two sepa...New data show the efficacy of EQUETRO in patients with Bipolar I Disorder
...sis involved 115 patients from the two randomized, double blind placebo-controlled trials. There is a need for further clinical trials that are prospectively designed. About Bipolar Disorder Bipolar disorder is one of the six leading mental disorders worldwide, according to the World Health Organization....Stress may increase long-term success of vaccinations
...ickness of the stressed, immunized mice was nearly double that of the mice in the other two groups. The researchers also found that stressed mice had much higher numbers of macrophages and lymphocytes, as well as other kinds of immune cells and proteins in their skin, and higher numbers of memory T-cells in...US specialists call for heart patients to be screened for psychological distress
...cally significant, but for those who had MI it was double that of the healthy population and triple for those with heart failure. In each disease category the level of distress was higher if the illness had been diagnosed within the last 12 months. "Because of the way the NHIS conducts its survey we know th...National Service Framework for heart failure urgently needed
...reatments, they say. Timely treatment can roughly double life expectancy and reduce the need for repeated hospital admissions. Yet heart failure continues to be inadequately investigated and treated. Dr Andrew Clark and Professor John Cleland of Castle Hill Hospital, in Hull, north east England, point to t...