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Daily Coffee Consumption May Help Prevent Skin Cancer Risk

Daily coffee consumption may reduce your risk of developing a type of skin cancer, a new research suggests.

"Our study shows that coffee consumption may be an important option to help prevent basal cell carcinoma. The amount of caffeine consumption was inversely associated with risk, meaning the more coffee consumed, the lower the risk of skin cancer," said lead researcher Fengju Song, a postdoctoral fellow in the department of dermatology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.

What You Need To Know About Cervical Cancer

Cervical cancer affects a woman's body in the cervical area. The womb of a woman found the opening through the cervix. Many times the human papilloma virus causes the disease. It is transmitted sexual exchanges. The cervix became the most important organs of the reproductive system requires proper attention as far as cancer onset is concerned. As cancer affects the other organs of the cervix and can cause damage to reproductive organs. This makes this disease being a fatal disease.

Although human papilloma virus is the leading cause of Cervical cancer but it is also diagnosed with women who are in the habit of smoking. Incidence of lung cancer and breast cancer associated with existing cervical cancer. This indicates that the vulnerability of women to have higher cancer by cervical cancer. The disease is indicated by the presence of warts in the area around the cervix. But the routine medical examination is needed because sometimes the warts may not even appear on the skin and the disease is not detected.

Two Substances That Help Reduce the Risk Of Cancer

Food helps us by providing many essential nutrients such as vitamins and minerals. Your genetic composition can make you vulnerable to some types of cancer. The ways you eat play a major role in increasing or reducing the risk of cancer.

Phytochemicals are non-nutritional substances found in plants. They protect us against diseases when they are in our bodies. Isoflavones and Lycopene are phytochemicals. Isoflavones reduce breast cancer risk for premenopausal women, while lycopene reduce the risk of prostate cancer in middle aged men.

Stages of Mesothelioma Cancer

Mesothelioma cancer is a rare form of cancer in the mesothelial tissue of the lung and stomach. Its rarity is one of the reasons why a lot of people not aware of this fatal disease. In fact, many people die of Mesothelioma undiagnosed. Although there now a growing awareness about the dangers of asbestos for health, still many have not heard of Mesothelioma and thus, do not understand the causes, signs and its treatment.

Even some doctors are difficult to detect Mesothelioma because the symptoms are similar to other diseases such as lung cancer and pneumonia. In addition, take several decades for a patient who was exposed to asbestos for develop Mesothelioma.

Being unaware of Mesothelioma poses higher risk because preclude the diagnosis and treatment. People who experience treatment must know the different stages of cancer or extent of disease. Possible recovery of Mesothelioma and type of treatment depends on the stage disease.

What is Mesothelioma?

Mesothelioma the medical name for cancer of the pleura or cancer of the peritoneum. This is usually caused by prolonged or persistent exposure to asbestos

Mesothelioma symptoms may not appear until between twenty to fifty years after exposure, which why so many new cases of this type of cancer that comes to light now, though long realized the dangers of asbestos and actions taken to reduce the risk of this disease.

As with various forms of cancer, mesothelioma tumor can spread rapidly, often infecting the opposite pleura, and proceed to other internal organs. Symptoms include chest pain, cough, shortness of breath and weight loss.

What is Breast Cancer?

Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women in the US. Every year, in the US itself, approximately 220,000 women are told they have breast cancer. After hearing this unexpected and unusual, a woman faced with having to make treatment choices within a very short time. While curable if detected early, breast cancer is the leading cause of death of women ages 35-54.

There are several types of breast cancer. The most common one is ductal carcinoma, which begins in the lining of the milk ducts in the breast. Another type, lobular carcinoma, begins in the lobules where milk is produced. If a cancerous tumor attacking nearby tissues, it is called invasive cancer.

Passive Smokers Are At Higher Risk Of Breast Cancer

U.S. scientists have proven that passive smokers or secondhand smokers are at higher risk of breast cancer. Earlier, their research also led them to the conclusion that young women smokers are more likely to get addicted to smoking than young men.

Breast cancer is the number one cancer in women and the number of victims has increased very rapidly. This is the first time that passive smoking has been directly linked to this type of cancers. WHO links smoking with 25 Cancer: Some of them are: uterine, kidney, cervix, pancreas, head neck and more.

 
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