Cancer

New study shows that vitamin C injections have the potential to treat cancer, by reducing the size of a tumor.

The researchers who conducted the new study on mice discovered an unexpected effect of vitamin C, promising its use as a drug for cancer treatment.

German scientists discovered that hops that is used in beer production had essential cancer-fighting agents. The results of the study showed that xanthohumol, found in hops contains agents that inhibit enzymes which trigger cancer. Besides, xanthohumol helps in fighting carcinogens.

Almost 8,000 of US people who received a vaccine against cervical cancer reported about serious side effects, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Gardasil is a vaccine that helps protect against 4 types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that cause cervical cancer and genital warts. It was given around 2.2 million doses of the vaccine in 2006 and 11.3 million on 2007 in the US.

Natural antioxidant found in red wine has the potential to fight with pancreatic cancer cells, study says.

Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center suggest that antioxidant resveratrol in grape skins and red wine can reach to the mitochondria, a core of cell's energy source and damage its function. Also if the treatment includes the combination of using resveratrol and irradiation, it resulted in apoptosis, the cancer cell death.

Scientists uncover a breakthrough drug for the treatment of the severe prostate cancer that claims to be more effective than chemotherapy.

The promising drug called abiraterone has a potential to treat 80 percent of the patents, suffering from severe forms of prostate cancer, for whom chemotherapy proved to bó ineffective.

Researchers from the U.S. National Cancer Institute found that a drug, which is used in treating patients infected with AIDS virus, has shown positive results in fighting cancer.
U.S. scientists examined the way drugs, called protease inhibitors, which are used in combination with some other drugs to combat HIV, acted against several types of cancer; this includes non-small cell lung cancer.

Scientists discovered that, regardless of the anatomic site, smoking is the main cause of developing head and neck cancers in both men and women. A study, published in "Cancer", proved that there is a strong connection between current and past smoking of cigarettes and head and neck cancers in men and women.