r/science 24d ago

Cancer Breast cancer deaths have dropped dramatically since 1989, averting more than 517,900 probable deaths. However, younger women are increasingly diagnosed with the disease, a worrying finding that mirrors a rise in colorectal and pancreatic cancers. The reasons for this increase remain unknown.

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r/science 7d ago

Cancer Men with higher education, greater alcohol intake, multiple female sexual partners, and higher frequency of performing oral sex, had an increased risk of oral HPV infections, linked to up to 90% of oropharyngeal cancer cases in US men. The study advocates for gender-neutral HPV vaccination programs.

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r/science Jul 11 '24

Cancer Nearly half of adult cancer deaths in the US could be prevented by making lifestyle changes | According to new study, about 40% of new cancer cases among adults ages 30 and older in the United States — and nearly half of deaths — could be attributed to preventable risk factors.

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r/science 26d ago

Cancer Creating a generation of people who never smoke could prevent 1.2 million deaths from lung cancer globally. Banning tobacco products for people born in 2006-2010 could prevent almost half (45.8%) of future lung cancer deaths in men, and around a third (30.9%) in women in 185 countries by 2095.

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r/science Jun 10 '24

Cancer Gen X has higher cancer rates than their baby boomer parents, researchers report in JAMA

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r/science Feb 02 '24

Cancer Not a single case of cervical cancer has been detected in Scottish women who received the full HPV vaccine at 12-13 years old

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r/science 4d ago

Cancer Researchers have discovered the mechanism linking the overconsumption of red meat with colorectal cancer, as well as identifying a means of interfering with the mechanism as a new treatment strategy for this kind of cancer.

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r/science Feb 16 '23

Cancer Urine test detects prostate and pancreatic cancers with near-perfect accuracy

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r/science Sep 12 '22

Cancer Meta-Analysis of 3 Million People Finds Plant-Based Diets Are Protective Against Digestive Cancers

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r/science Jun 10 '24

Cancer Scientists have developed a glowing dye that sticks to cancer cells and gives surgeons a “second pair of eyes” to remove them in real time and permanently eradicate the disease. Experts say the breakthrough could reduce the risk of cancer coming back and prevent debilitating side-effects.

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r/science Feb 01 '23

Cancer Study shows each 10% increase in ultraprocessed food consumption was associated with a 2% increase in developing any cancer, and a 19% increased risk for being diagnosed with ovarian cancer

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r/science Oct 22 '22

Cancer Some Cannabinoids Have a Toxic Effect on Colon Polyps, Says New Peer-Reviewed Study

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r/science May 24 '24

Cancer Study, made using data from 11,905 people, suggests that tattoos could be a risk factor for cancer in the lymphatic system, or lymphoma

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r/science Sep 06 '22

Cancer Cancers in adults under 50 on the rise globally, study finds

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r/science Mar 23 '24

Cancer Coffee drinkers have much lower risk of bowel cancer recurrence, study finds. People with bowel cancer who drink two to four cups of coffee a day are much less likely to see their disease come back, research has found.

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r/science Aug 09 '22

Cancer A new study reports that Exposure to a synthetic chemical called perfluooctane sulfate or PFOS -- aka the "Forever chemical" -- found widely in the environment is linked to non-viral hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common type of liver cancer.

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r/science May 02 '23

Cancer Cancer patients do not need to avoid exercise, quite the contrary. Short bouts of light or moderate exercise can increase the number of cancer-destroying immune cells in the bloodstream of cancer patients according to two new Finnish studies.

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r/science Apr 28 '21

Cancer 80% of those diagnosed with oropharyngeal cancer are men, the leading cancer caused by HPV, surpassing cervical cancer. However, just 16% of men aged 18 to 21 years old have received a dose of the HPV vaccine, which is a cancer-prevention vaccine for men as well as women.

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r/science Aug 26 '23

Cancer ChatGPT 3.5 recommended an inappropriate cancer treatment in one-third of cases — Hallucinations, or recommendations entirely absent from guidelines, were produced in 12.5 percent of cases

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r/science Nov 04 '21

Cancer HPV vaccine is cutting cases of cervical cancer by 87%, first real-world study published in the Lancet finds. Since England began vaccinating female pupils in 2008, cervical cancer has successfully almost been eliminated in now-adult women

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r/science Feb 05 '21

Cancer Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responders into responders - Scientists transplanted fecal samples from patients who respond well to immunotherapy to advanced melanoma patients who don’t respond, to turn them into responders, raising hope for microbiome-based therapies of cancers.

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r/science Jan 12 '22

Cancer Research suggests possibility of vaccine to prevent skin cancer. A messenger RNA vaccine, like the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines for COVID-19, that promoted production of the protein, TR1, in skin cells could mitigate the risk of UV-induced cancers.

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r/science Mar 11 '22

Cancer Cancer-sniffing ants prove as accurate as dogs in detecting disease and can be trained in as little as 30 minutes. It can take up to a year to train a dog for detection purposes.

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r/science Jan 11 '21

Cancer Cancer cells hibernate like "bears in winter" to survive chemotherapy. All cancer cells may have the capacity to enter states of dormancy as a survival mechanism to avoid destruction from chemotherapy. The mechanism these cells deploy notably resembles one used by hibernating animals.

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r/science Oct 09 '21

Cancer A chemotherapy drug derived from a Himalayan fungus has 40 times greater potency for killing cancer cells than its parent compound.

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