30th March 2010

Smoking can cause several diseases

Smoking addiction is presented by an individual to snuff, caused primarily by one of its active components, nicotine, has just degenerated into abuse or tobacco consumption. Smoking is a chronic systemic disease belonging to the group of addictions. Today smoking is considered a chronic addictive disease treatment options.
Snuff smoke contains toxic gases which 3 are nicotine, carbon monoxide and cyanide. Read the rest of this entry »

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24th February 2010

NASA Agency inroads with nanotubes in cancer research

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) NASA announced today that it has joined City of Hope, a research and cancer treatment to explore the use of nanotubes to diagnose and treat brain tumors.

JPL reported in a statement, nanotechnology could revolutionize medicine with the promise of playing a role in selective cancer therapy. Read the rest of this entry »

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24th February 2010

Poverty and snuff, main causes cancer growth in developing countries

Poverty and increasingly higher smoking rates in the coming years will be the main causes of cancer in developing countries, U.S. experts said today.

Life expectancy in people is increasing, but that causes people to take a larger amount of bad habits, like smoking, an activity that lead to an increase in the number of cancer cases, said Dr. Nancy Davidson of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Read the rest of this entry »

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16th February 2010

Develop methods to guide magnets drugs directly to tumors

The new technique could also be used to transport therapeutic genes to treat other diseases such as ischemia or arthritis of the joints.

British scientists have developed a revolutionary treatment using microscopic magnets to guide directly to tumors drugs used in chemotherapy. Read the rest of this entry »

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16th February 2010

Discover an enzyme inhibitor that acts as an anticancer substance

Researchers at the University of Galway (Ireland) have discovered a substance capable of reducing the size of tumors because it inhibits an enzyme involved in DNA synthesis, according to an article published in the British science journal Nature Chemical Biology. Read the rest of this entry »

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1st February 2010

Cervical cancer deaths may double by vaccination in Latin America lack

The reported mortality rate for this cancer in the United States is 2.5 per 100,000 women, but some countries in Latin America is ten times higher, experts say

The registration of 30,000 deaths per year in Latin America for cervical cancer, caused by human papilloma virus, can bend if not covered by the vaccine to prevent it, said an expert from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Read the rest of this entry »

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6th January 2010

Kaposi’s sarcoma, a tumor opportunistic

tumor-opportunisticSince 1981, this tumor was much higher in an epidemic, affecting homosexuals and patients with impaired cellular immunity.

This associated with AIDS and even one of its diagnostic criteria: Thus it is considered as an opportunistic tumor that appears and develops in individuals with depressed Read the rest of this entry »

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6th January 2010

Glomus

glomusIt is a neoplasm whose cells resemble smooth muscle, changed the normal glomus body.

Body is a neuro-myo-arterial glomus cells containing contractile. The normal glomus body is a specialized form of arteriovenous anastomosis that serves in thermal regulation. Read the rest of this entry »

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28th December 2009

Good nutrition could save cancer patients

cancer-patients1No doubt taking into account the importance of having an immune system resistant and strong, it is important nutritional care to protect him and keep him healthy and energized.

Suffering from Read the rest of this entry »

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24th December 2009

Lung cancer could be detected with a test Nanoparticles

nanoparticlesA major cause of mortality worldwide and is cancer within the many existing cancers, which cause increased mortality from lung cancer is usually caused by smoking or environmental pollution that today affects us all as know cancer is curable in the first stage and for that nothing better than prevention. Read the rest of this entry »

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