Aspirins are said to be the "wonder drug" to ward off cancer yet how it would is still unknown. Thankfully, a group od Texas researchers had found out how aspirins would aid in being a cancer drug.
In yet another milestone achieved by the United States, the news has broken out the storm of happiness and national pride, with the US confirming 25 % slump in death rates caused primarily by Cancer.
In 2015 alone, around 2.8 million lives were lost due to lung cancer in China, which translates to about 7,500 people dying every day, says a study published in an American medical Journal.
Amgen Inc. revolutionary blood cancer drug Kyprolis has been fully approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a treatment for patients with multiple myeloma.
It is predicted that there will be 1.7 million new cancer cases this year with almost 600,000 predicted deaths in the U.S. However, prevention of cancer by different factors can help in decreasing risk of having the disease.
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the U.S. today. And in 21 states, it has overtaken heart disease as the number one killer. On the bright side of things, the number of cancer deaths have steadily dropped in recent years, according to the American Cancer Society.
The year 2015 has been filled with various health news and controversies that were subject to debate. From breast cancer, rape cases, Martin Shkreli and the Plant Parenthood fiasco, we list down five of the hotly talked about news that made it to the front page in 2015.
The incidence and mortality rates from several common forms of cancer have declined in recent years in many high-income countries (HIC), according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). Conversely, the same could not be said is true for low- and middle-income countries (LMIC).
