Ovarian Cancer Rates Leveling Off Across Europe
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 27 (HealthDayNews) -- Ovarian cancer incidence and death rates are dropping in most parts of northern Europe but are on the increase in a few southern and eastern European countries, says a large study in the Oct. 25 online issue of the International Journal of Cancer.
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Being obese or even overweight may increase a person's risk of developing up to a dozen different types of cancer, European researchers report in a new study.
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NEW YORK  - Ovarian cancer is much more  curable if detected early, but the disease doesn't usually  produce symptoms until it is advanced and current blood tests  are not very sensitive in picking it up. A new test may improve  the situation, researchers have shown.
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BELGRADE, Sep 11 (IPS) - Serbian health authorities have finally confirmed  what was long suspected -- the nation tops the list in Europe for  lung cancers.
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Jewish women of Eastern European descent who have ovarian cancer and carry certain genetic changes live longer than those without the mutations, according to a study published on Tuesday.
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Women treated for pre-cancerous lesions are at increased risk of developing cervical or vaginal cancer for at least another 25 years, according to a study suggesting that follow-up tests fall dangerously short.
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LONDON -- Women on the birth control pill are protected from ovarian cancer, even decades after they stop taking it, scientists said.
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NEW YORK  - The risk of ovarian cancer  increases with increased exposure to diesel exhaust, according  to a new study published in the International Journal of  Cancer.
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Ovarian cancer is much more curable if detected early, but the disease doesn't usually produce symptoms until it is advanced and current blood tests are not very sensitive in picking it up. A new test may improve the situation, researchers have shown.
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FRIDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDayNews) -- Since 1988, the incidence of cancer among Asian Americans in California has declined 5.9 percent and cancer deaths have fallen 16.3 percent.
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Since 1988, the incidence of cancer among Asian Americans in California has declined 5.9 percent and cancer deaths have fallen 16.
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Death rates from many cancers in Ireland are higher than in the rest of Europe, a cross-border report finds.
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There is an alarming ignorance about cancer and how to reduce the risk of  the disease, a survey suggests.
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The results of a study  published in the International Journal of Cancer suggest that  most factors that may cause inflammation of the ovaries are not  associated with a statistically significant increased risk of  ovarian cancer.
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Rising skin cancer rates are more likely to affect wealthy people, Northern Ireland researchers find.
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Asia is bracing for a dramatic surge in cancer rates over the next decade as people in the developing world live longer and adopt bad Western habits that greatly increase the risk of the disease.
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NEW YORK  - Invasive breast cancer rates have fallen since the substantial decline in postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT) occurred, even after a decline in breast cancer screening rates, according to findings published in the 5th Journal of the National Cancer Institute.