Tag Archive for Bowel
08
Feb 2012
Cancers From B to T – Most common Types of Cancer – - Bowel (Colorectal ) Cancer
Bowel cancerBowel cancer also known as colorectal cancer, is defined as a condition of the abnormal proliferation of cells in the colon, rectum, or vermiform appendix. Bowl is divided in 2 parts, the first part of the bowel, the small bowl, is involved with the digestion and absorption of food. The 2nd part, the large bowel which consist the the colon and rectum, is involved in absorption of water from the small bowel contents and broken down of read more
03
Feb 2012
Can You Help Prevent Bowel Cancer by Taking Fish Oil Tablets?
Fish oil tablets contain 2 essential fatty acids called DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) and EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid), which are otherwise known as omega 3 essential fatty acids. Over the last 40 years many studies have established the benefits of Omega3 fats to many areas of our health including our heart health. Studies have also shown a link between fish oil and breast cancer prevention and fish oil and prostate cancer prevention. However there a read more
02
Feb 2012
Roche’s Avastin rejected by UK cost body for Bowel cancer
The U.K.’s health-care cost regulator Wednesday said it won’t recommend Roche Holding AG’s (ROG.VX) Avastin to treat patients with bowel cancer, due to the medicine’s high cost and limited efficiency.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, or NICE, said Avastin in combination with chemotherapy fails to meet the body’s standards, amid which the benefits of a drug need to justify its costs.
The deci read more
01
Feb 2012
How to Manage Bowel Cancer?
As years are passing by the number of patients with bowel cancer is increasing rapidly and it does not matter whether the patent is young or old or whether is women of men.
Generally cancer can not be cured but if one patient is diagnosed in an early stage of bowel cancer than there is hope of good recuperation after therapy.
The colon and rectum are a part of the large intestine and their function is to absorb nutrients and water fro read more
31
Jan 2012
Bowel cancer patients must do without life-extending drug, says Nice
Bowel cancer patients must do without life-extending drug, says Nice
Medicine that typically gives an extra six weeks of life is too expensive for NHS, watchdog rules
Bowel cancer patients will not get access to a potentially life-extending drug, health watchdog Nice confirmed today.
Bevacizumab, known as Avastin, can help patients with advanced bowel cancer that has spread to other organs, usually the liver and lungs.
Nice (the National Institut read more
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30
Jan 2012
Vitamin B deficiency can increase the risk of bowel cancer
According to research from Cornell University in New York, studies carried out on nutrition and genetics in mice can help us to gain a greater understanding of how bowel cancers develop. This can be done by identifying a gene that increases the risk of bowel cancer in mice when the animals’ diets are deficient in folate. Folate is a water-soluble B vitamin that occurs naturally in food.
The study, which is published in the March issue of Ca read more
28
Jan 2012
Exercise Reduces the Risk of Bowel Cancer
People who lead healthy and active lifestyles are up to three times less likely to develop polyps, which can develop into bowel cancer, according to scientists from the Washington School of Medicine in St Louis, USA.
A polyp is a growth in the bowel, which although not cancerous, can develop into cancer over long periods of time. Most bowel cancers develop from polyps, with approximately 1 in 4 of the UK population having one by the age of 50, read more
26
Jan 2012
Bowel cancer – causes and symptoms
There are still some mysteries surrounding bowel cancer, but medical experts agree that diet is a major factor in the development of the disease. If you have previously suffered other diseases of the bowel, particularly those that cause inflammation, you may be more likely to develop bowel cancer as well if other family members had the condition before the age of 50.
The good news is that your chances of developing bowel cancer can be reduced b read more
25
Jan 2012
Who’s most at risk from bowel cancer?
Bowel cancer is one of the UK’s most common cancers, with around 37,000 people diagnosed each year. General symptoms of the disease may include blood in your faeces, sudden weight loss or loss of appetite, pain in the abdomen and changes to your bowel habits over a long period of time. However, it’s important to remember that these symptoms may also be caused by other diseases so, while you should make sure to visit your doctor straig read more