Turmeric May Protect Against Leukemia -Scientist
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Turmeric, a spice used extensively in Asia as a key ingredient of curry, may be protecting children against leukemia, a scientist said on Thursday.
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A researcher at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland has found that a diet high in soy may keep breast cancer from spreading.
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MONDAY, Dec. 20 (HealthDayNews) -- The high price of the leukemia drug Gleevec is offset by the expected increase in survival rates among patients who take it, say two Duke University studies in the December issue of Cancer.
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New York - Sun exposure apparently has a protective effect against the development non-Hodgkin&#39;s lymphoma (NHL), a blood cancer, Australian researchers report.
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Umbilical cord blood, now used mostly to treat children with leukemia, could save thousands of adults with the disease each year who cannot find bone marrow donors, two large studies indicate.
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Lower rates of childhood leukaemia in Asian countries could be due to wide use of turmeric, researchers suggest. A team from Loyola University Medical Centre, Chicago, said the spice - often used in Asian
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NEW YORK  - Unlike cranial radiation,   chemotherapy for children with a certain type of leukemia does   not appear to have harmful long-term effects on intelligence,   even at high doses, a new study shows.
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It's best known as a weed-killer or a  favorite weapon of murderous old ladies, but arsenic could find  a new role as a mainstream treatment for leukemia, Iranian  researchers said Wednesday.
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Here you go, grandad, get your laughing gear round this phal US researchers have isolated a compound in turmeric - commonly used in the UK's national dish chicken tikka masala and other more deadly curry concoctions - which "may help stimulate immune system cells that gobble up the brain-clogging proteins that mark Alzheimer's disease", Reuters reports.â¦
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Well known as a poison that can kill, arsenic also can prolong the lives of patients with a rare form of leukemia, a new study out Saturday found.
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Dec. 6, 2004 (San Diego) -- A new generation of medications to treat leukemia is wiping out cancer in people who fail to benefit from the blockbuster drug Gleevec, researchers say.
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Blood from a newborn&#39;s umbilical cord, often thrown away but rich in cells that may rebuild the body&#39;s blood production system, is safe to treat leukemia in adults, two studies released on Wednesday show.
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Mystery ingredients in non- alcoholic  beer may protect against cancer, at least in mice.
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NEW YORK  - Recreational sun exposure could help prevent a type of blood cancer involving the lymph nodes called non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), according to pooled data from 10 studies.
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 29 (HealthDayNews) -- The anti-cancer drug Gleevec, highly touted for slowing the progression of chronic myeloid leukemia, also appears to stall a rare kind of skin cancer, a new study finds.
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A next-generation leukemia pill designed to help patients not cured by the successful drug Gleevec works even better than doctors had hoped, researchers said Sunday.
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Researchers claim chemicals used by plants to combat fungal infection could benefit cancer patients.