News that has caught Rachael Babin’s eye this week
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New research shows Reiki aids the wellbeing of cancer sufferers
A research project claims that the complementary therapy named Reiki can improve the quality of…
Overweight children may be at higher risk of oesophageal cancer as adults
Overweight children may be at higher risk of oesophageal (gullet) cancer when they grow up…
Farming men’s cancer incidence below other rural men
A large health study is challenging the view that male farmers are more cancer-prone than…
Why the causes of cancer are more than just random ‘bad luck’
By Darren Saunders, Garvan Institute. What causes cancer? This deceptively simple question has a devilishly…
One in two people in UK will get cancer, study says
One in two people will develop cancer at some point in their lives, according to…
New App for Clinical Skin Cancer Diagnosis Launches on World Cancer Day 2015
On World Cancer Day 2015 general practitioners physicians and dermatologists in the United States United…
Informed Aussies less likely to want a prostate cancer test
By Rae Thomas; Jenny Doust, and Paul Glasziou. Screening for prostate cancer using the prostate…
New method shrinks metastatic ovarian cancer and reduces chemotherapy dose
New research published in the February 2015 issue of The FASEB Journal, may eventually help improve…
Metformin may lower lung cancer risk in diabetic nonsmokers
Among nonsmokers who had diabetes, those who took the diabetes drug metformin had a decrease…
Fizzy drinks cause early puberty and increases cancer risk in girls, study finds
Girls who frequently drink fizzy sugary drinks are putting themselves at risk of breast cancer,…