Recent Posts Tagged With 'cancer risk'

• Alcohol consumption increases cancer risk in men, too.

  Posted on Thursday August 20th, 2009 at 07:04 in MEN, Cancer, prostate cancer, esophageal cancer, cancer risk, alcohol consumption, liver-cancer

  It was only earlier this year that the Million Women Study reported the following: alcohol consumption even at low levels increases women’s risk for cancer. It seems that the same is true for men as well. Canadian researchers have recently repo...

• Cancer risk and advanced maternal age

  Posted on Wednesday August 5th, 2009 at 09:47 in Cancer, childhood cancer, older moms, cancer risk, advanced maternal age, increased risk

  The trend among women nowadays is to put off having children as late as possible. A lot of factors contribute to this trend. One of these is something to do with the changing role of women in society and how they have to combine career and motherhood...

• Diet and cancer risk: vegetarians are the winners

  Posted on Tuesday July 28th, 2009 at 01:22 in diet, Cancer, vegetarian, cancer risk

  This is probably one of the largest studies to investigate the effect of diet and cancer risk. The study included more than 60,000 British residents and lasted for more than 12 years. And the results indicate that a vegetarian diet lowers the risk fo...