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Joint pain in breast cancer patients relieved by electro-acupuncture
In as little as eight weeks the use of electro-acupuncture (EA) produced significant improvements in fatigue, anxiety and depression in early stage breast cancer...
No benefits from androgen deprivation therapy
For decades, millions of men with early prostate cancer have been placed on drug therapy to suppress their production of testosterone, despite such significant...
Tamoxifen gel as effective as pill for breast cancer
A gel containing the drug tamoxifen and applied to the skin was as effective in reducing the growth of breast cancer cells in women...
Vitamin D could boost survival in bowel cancer patients
Bowel cancer patients with high levels of vitamin D in their blood are more likely to survive the disease. Reuters reports that scientists who...
Potential for cannabis to shrink cancer tumours
Cannabis can help shrink human cancer tumours in mice. The Daily Mirror reports that new research reveals the drug’s main psychoactive ingredient – tetrahydrocannabino...
Women with BRCA1 mutations should remove ovaries by 35
Women with BRCA1 genetic mutations should have preventive ovarian surgery by age 35- known as prophylactic oophorectomy - by age 35, as waiting appears...