A new study by the group of US researchers on breast cancer has revealed that more than half of the patients who have early stages of this cancer leave the full prescribed course of hormone therapy.

In this study the automated pharmacy records of 8,769 women were analyzed, most of them were those who were having type 1, 2 or 3 hormone sensitive breast cancer and it was found out that each woman filled at least one prescription of hormone therapy each year.

While discussing about the study the leading author of the study Dr. Dawn Hershman, an associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at Columbia University Medical Center, said in a news release from the Journal of Clinical Oncology said that “Physicians are often unaware of patient compliance, and this is becoming an increasingly important issue in cancer” and further “It’s very disturbing that patients under 40 had the highest discontinuation rates because those patients have the longest life expectancy”.

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The cancer is no doubt one of the most dangerous diseases that man has discovered but the test to detects cancers are also quite dangerous and complicated, recently a team of researchers from the US and Japanese universities have developed a new technique by which many different type of cancers can be detected and it is the simple Saliva test.

Mainly the Japan’s Keio University and University of California, Los Angeles have developed this new and amazing technique with which they detects the high probabilities of pancreatic cancer, breast cancer and oral cancer.

Professor Tomoyoshi Soga at Keio’s Institute for Advanced Biosciences while discussing about this new technique said that “The survival rates of pancreatic cancer and oral cancer are especially low, because they don’t show clear symptoms in early stages, which often delays spotting of the illness”.

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A group of researchers’ have found a very useful aspect of the red wine and according to that a special ingredient in the red wine named as Resveratrol helps in preventing the out-of-control blood vessels in growth in the eyes.

This ingredient is also found in grapes, blueberries, peanuts and other plants and all this research have been carries by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Washington University retina specialist Rajendra S. Apte, MD, PhD, the study’s senior investigator while discussing about this new study said that “A great deal of research has identified resveratrol as an anti-aging compound, and given our interest in age-related eye disease, we wanted to find out whether there was a link”.

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There have been some previous studies that tried to show that the cell phone towers brings the drastic effects on pregnant women by raising the risks of cancers in the child but recently a new study by researchers has shown that there is no such connection.

According to the lead author of the study Dr. Paul Elliott, a professor of epidemiology and public health medicine at Imperial College London “There is public concern about possible effects of mobile phone mast emissions on the health of children,” and further “This large national study found no association between mobile phone base station exposures and risk of early childhood cancers”.

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Loneliness is really a most irritating feeling that no one can ever enjoy, but recently some researchers have find out that this lonely behavior of people can prove to be the biggest enemy of their health.

The researchers have shown that the temporary friends of internet just like the ones in our friends list on any social network can’t remove the tag of being lonely from our life until there are some strong spiritual relations.

The two different studies have been published in the University of Arizona studies and it suggests that the superficial relations not only bring the blessing of social detachment but also contribute to certain health related problems.

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