Although people who love to use tanning beds and the beds’ businesses will say otherwise, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that the medical community fears the effects of the tanning beds and booths.
They have sounded warnings in the past about the use of tanning beds and booths, but they are still popular among many, particularly the younger adults and teens. The tanning done by this method allows strong ultraviolet rays to hit the skin and cause damage. This damage has a high chance of developing into skin cancer years down the road.
Researchers looked at 20 different studies and, using those study …read more

The United States has been taken to task for using outdated methods of measuring allowable radiation levels to prevent development of cancer. Currently, the rules are based on white, so-called, average men. However, the community is made of people from all ethnic backgrounds, men and women, different sizes, and of course, children.
According to an article that appeared in the New York Times yesterday, “The report, from the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, said the rules were still too heavily based on Reference Man,’ a standard created by the International Commission on Radiological Protection in 1975. That standard is a …read more

A new study in the UK revealed that gum disease may increase the risk of cancer.
Though the link is still unclear, people with gum infections have increased amount of inflammatory markers in the blood — inflammation has previously been linked to cancer.
According to lead researcher Dominique Michaud, a cancer epidemiologist at Imperial College London (UK):
“Men with history of periodontal disease had a 14 percent higher risk of cancer than those who did not have periodontal disease, and the increase persisted among never smokers.
This new finding needs to be examined in other populations and among women, but it at least suggests …read more

Obesity has always been linked by experts to high risk of developing metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes and most especially cardiovascular diseases . In fact, all these conditions are closely linked to one another.
Now, as reported by European researchers, being obese or even overweight may increase a person’s risk of developing up to a dozen different types of cancer.
Doctors have long suspected a link between weight gain and certain cancers, including colon and breast cancers.
But the new study, published Friday in the journal Lancet, suggests it could also increase chances for cancer of the esophagus, thyroid, kidney, uterus and gall …read more

For the first time, doctors have shown that although endometriosis is associated with an increased risk of various cancers, this risk does not depend on the number of times women with the condition have given birth.
Dr Anna-Sofia Melin, a specialist doctor in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Karolinska University Hospital (Stockholm, Sweden) presented earlier in the week at the 23rd annual meeting of the European European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology:
“Several epidemiological studies have shown an increased cancer risk among women with endometriosis, especially ovarian cancer.
Infertility and never having given birth (nulliparity) are also known risk …read more

In populations with high rates of colorectal, prostate, and breast cancer, cancer risk can be moderately reduced with a daily dose of adult-strength aspirin (at least 325mg/day) if taken for at least five years.
Eric Jacobs, Ph.D., of the American Cancer Society, together with colleagues looked for associations between long-term daily aspirin use (at least 325mg/day) and cancer incidence in a group of nearly 70,000 men and 76,000 women and during the 12-year follow-up found the following:

daily use of adult-strength aspirin for at least five years was associated with an approximately 15 percent relative reduction in overall cancer risk …read more