Cause And Prevention Research

Cause And Prevention Research

Aspirin to reduce cancer risk
Updated: February 23, 2017
Even a Federal Advisory Committee has supported the use of aspirin to reduce the risk of colorectal cancer in some people, but the researchers are investigating how aspirin works against cancer and whether it is for other cancers Can help reduce risk.

U.S. Cancer deaths fall, but some areas have left behind, study finds
Posted: 21 February, 2017
A study of the nationwide death rate data found that, between the 1980s and 2014, the U.S. Cancer deaths have occurred, disparities are maintained, and cancer death rate has increased greatly in 160 counties.

Changes in tobacco, types purchased in the US
Posted: January 23, 2017
According to a new study, consumption of cigarettes, small cigars and chewing tobacco in the last 15 years has decreased. This decline was partially offset by the increase in large cigars, pipe tobacco, and consumption of snuff

No safe level of smoking: Even low-intensity smokers are at increased risk of early death
Posted: 5 December 2016
Those people who used to smoke less than one cigarette a day in their lifetime, compared to those people who had 64 percent more risk than those who did not smoke.

CDC Update Recommendations on HPV Vaccine
Posted: November 14, 2016
Updating the CDC recommendations, people under the age of 15 are advised that instead of three, two doses of HPV vaccine are required.

Adolescents who did not smoked for e-cigarette
Posted: August 11, 2016
The findings of a recent study show that cigarette cigarettes are not using e-cigarettes as an alternative to conventional cigarettes, but are attracting new users of e-cigarette tobacco products.

Setting the stage for the next decade of tobacco control research
Posted: July 5, 2016
A new report from the NCI Working Group tells the recommended priorities of the Institute to help shape the future Tobacco Control Research portfolio.

Increased physical activity of low risk of 13 types of cancers
Posted: 16 May 2016
A new study of relationships between physical activity and cancer has shown that higher levels of physical activity of leisure-time were associated with the risk of developing 13 various types of cancers; Compared to at least active participants, the risk of developing seven types of cancer was less than 20 percent in most active participants.

Public Health Improvement through Increased Tobacco Regulation
Posted: 10 May 2016
NCI's Dr. Robert Crowall has discussed the release of a rule of the Food and Drug Administration which extends its regulatory authority on tobacco products to include cigars, e-cigarettes, hookah (waterpipe) tobacco.

The lack of vaccine in the targeted HPV infection in the US
Posted: March 9, 2016
Since the recommendation of HPV vaccination in the United States, human papillomavirus (HPV) types of infections targeted by the HPV vaccine have reduced by about two-thirds of teenage girls.

Mouse study points for obesity and mechanism for adding colorectal cancer risk
Posted: February 8, 2016
In coarse mice, a missing hormone can help to understand a long-term collaboration between obesity and increased risk of colorectal cancer in humans.

Antioxidants trigger tumors growth and confidence in mice
Posted: November 12, 2015
Metastatic tumor cells are particularly sensitive to oxidative stress, and increase the capacity of antioxidant supplements and metastasis.

CRISAR: Age of Genome Editing of Age
Posted: September 23, 2015
A technique for editing genes named CRISER-CS 9 has made it very easy and fast for cancer researchers to study mutations and test new therapeutic targets.

The burden of the disease of smoking: the first thought was worse than that?
Posted: 16 March 2015
According to a new study, smoking can be responsible for more deaths than before every year.

Gardasil protects vaccine against 9 additional HPV types
Posted: March 2, 2015
In a major random diagnostic test, a new human papilomavirus (HPV) vaccine effectively prevents infection and disease due to 9 HPV types, which include seven types, including cervical and other cancers - five of which are available before the HPV vaccine Did not come from- and two types due to genital warts.

Risk for smoking in the other hand, but inequalities continue
Posted: 13 February 2015
Since 1999, the exposure of second-hand smoke has fallen 50 percent, a new study has revealed, but millions of people are still regularly exposed to smoking regularly.

Study shows the increased number of cancers in HIV-positive population
Posted: February 9, 2015
In 2010, an estimated 7,760 new cancers were diagnosed in approximately 900,000 Americans who are living with HIV infection. According to the first comprehensive study in the United States, HIV-infected people are at risk of cancer similar to the general population, so more than half of these cancers were expected.

Report Offer Global Global Smoke-Tobacco Looks Comprehensive on Tobacco Use
Posted: January 7, 2015
The first report of its kind revealed that more than 300 million people worldwide use smokeless tobacco products and that they are associated with many cancers.

More than 300 million people use smokeless tobacco in at least 70 countries
Posted: 15 December 2014
For the first time on the public health and impact of tobacco smoking on public health, it is reported that in more than 70 countries, more than 300 million people use this harmful product. The title of this report is Smokeless Tobacco and Public Health: A Global Perspective.

Continue research on debates, e-cigarettes
Posted: 11 December 2014
Since they first started selling in North America in the mid-2000s, electronic cigarette has been a topic of intense debate. NCI's Dr. Michelle Bloch recently presented an update on some of the issues surrounding e-cigarette.

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine: Douglas R. Lovie, M.D. An interview with
Posted: November 20, 2014
NCI's Dr. Doug Lovie discussed the HPV vaccine, which includes the development of his efficacy, safety and next-generation vaccines.

NCI scientists have discovered protective mechanisms in the cells of progesterial patients against cancer
Posted: 2 October 2014
NCI scientists have studied the cells of patients with very rare genetic disorders, which are characteristic of aging before hard times and have discovered a new protective cellular system against cancer. They found that Hutchinson's patients with Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS), who do not usually develop cancer, have a tumor protection mechanism that is mediated by BRD4.

The study of NCI has shown that overweight obesity can reduce life expectancy for 14 years
Posted: 8 July 2014
According to the results of analyzing the data collected from 20 major studies of people from three countries, people with severe obesity have died of cancer and many other causes include heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and kidney and liver disease.

Low dose of HPV vaccine is equivalent to three dose in the immune response

Posted: November 4, 2013

NCI scientists report that two doses of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, which were trademarked in the form of cervix, compared to a standard three dose, similar to the two types of HPV (16 and 18) As a result of serum antibody levels.

New understanding of oral HPV infection in healthy men

Posted: July 2, 2013

Scientists report that newly acquired oral HPV infections in healthy men are uncommon and when presently, they go away within a year.

The possibility of large studies to build a genetic risk forecast model

Posted: March 4, 2013

NCI scientists have developed a new paradigm to assess genetic risk prediction in general diseases, such as prostate cancer. This concept of genetic risk prediction is based on polygenic analysis - a study of a group of common DNA sequences, called single nucleotide polyamorphism (SNP), each of which contributed very small amounts in the risk of overall disease, but Having a strong impact on grouping together

DNA breaks quickly in the replication process associated with B cell cancer.

Posted: 24 January 2013

Research by scientists at NCI has identified a new class DNA site in cells that break the initial in the replication process. They found that these break sites are often related to damaged damage in B cell cancers, such as spreading BB cell lymphoma.

NIH studies estimate physical activity of holiday time that is 4.5 years longer than life

Posted: November 6, 2012

According to a study by a team of researchers led by NCI, physical activity of leisure-time is linked to life expectancy for a long time, even at a relatively low level of activity and regardless of body weight. It was found in the study that the life benefits of the people who took part in physical activity of leisure-time were 5.5 years of life, which appeared on November 6, 2012 in Plois Medicine.

U.S. Men's growing anus related to HIV infection associated with cancer rates

Posted: 5 October 2012

According to the new research by NCI, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) contributes significantly to anal pandemic epidemic in men, but there is no number of women in the United States. The chart shows the overall rate of anal cancer in the general population with the dashed line shown with HIV infected people.

Dr. Diet and Cancer Conversation with Walter Willet

Posted: August 7, 2012

Dr. Walter Willlet, President of the Nutrition Department at the Harvard School of Public Health, answers questions about how ideas have developed about the dangers of diet and cancer.

Childhood CT spoons in the NIH study reveal that later life is linked to leukemia and brain cancer.

Posted: June 7, 2012

Children and young adults scanned, often scanned, often used in diagnostic tools by scanned temguri (CT), increased their risk of leukemia and brain tumors in a decade after their first scan is.

From the beginning of the decade of the 1990s, the country's report continues to decline in the mortality rate of cancer; The feature highlights the cancer associated with excess weight and lack of sufficient physical activity.

Posted: 28 March 2012

According to the National Annual Report on Cancer Status of 1975-2008, the rate of death of all cancers combined for men, women and children in the United States between the years of 2004 and 2008, continued to decline in the United States. The overall rate of the new cancer diagnosis, also known as the phenomenon, is due to a reduction of average 0.6 percent per year between men and women between 2004 and 2008. The incidence of total cancer incidence of women between 2006 and 1998 has declined by 0.5 percent from 1998 to 2006. Through 2008.

The new report highlighted the epidemic of tobacco and global health disparities

Posted: March 21, 2012

A new group of 11 global health studies focuses on the burden of tobacco related inequalities in low-and-middle income countries and found that socio-economic inequality is linked to the increase in tobacco use, the second hand is related to smoking and tobacco related Cancer and disease among the deprived population in Asia, Latin America and Africa.

Second HPV vaccine shows initial positive results

Updated: December 2, 2011

According to Lancet, June 30, 2007, Commentary Carrier® was 90% effective against two types of human papillomavirus (HPV), which could cause cervical cancer.

Exposure to Adding Obesity and Cancer Risk

Posted: November 15, 2011

Biological Process Is there an intermediary relationship between the excess body fat and the risk of increased cancer? Researchers are investigating that hormones, swelling, signaling molecules and other biological agents can play a role in the progress of cancer.

To detect cancer biology in adolescents and young adults

Posted: July 26, 2011

Evidence shows that some teenage and young adult can have genetic and biological characteristics in cancer, to identify possible clinical goals, researchers are trying to better understand the biology of these cancers.

Dr. Talk about cell phone use and cancer risk about Martha Linet

Posted: June 28, 2011

Head of radiation epidemiology branch in NCI's Cancer Pathology and Genetics Division, Dr. Martha Lennet responds to questions about ongoing research to study mobile phone usage and risk of cancer.

Despite initial suspicion, HPV vaccine proved effective

Posted: May 31, 2011

There are special symptoms in human papillomirus responsible for almost all cases of cervical cancer, which enable the vaccine to be particularly useful for vaccine development. This article describes the research that went into developing two vaccines approved by the FDA.

Reduction of radiation exposure during regular medical imaging

Posted: March 8, 2011

Risk of radiation has increased dramatically from medical imaging in the United States. NCI and many partner organizations sponsored a 2011 conference to boost efforts to reduce radiation exposure from medical imaging.