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“Still, consumption of a Mediterranean diet, which is based on plant foods, fish, and extra virgin olive oil, is known to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and is safe”. It also replaces butter with healthy fats, such as olive oil.

“Since its inception in 1997, the Safe & Sound campaign has worked tirelessly to raise awareness about breast cancer among the UAE community”, says Leigh Regan, COO of BurJuman.

Researchers randomly assigned more than 4,200 women, ages 60 to 80, to eat either a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra virgin olive oil or with nuts, or a low-fat control diet. The others were asked to only reduce the intake of fat in their routine diet.

The West Central Georgia Cancer Coalition seeks to partner with local faith-based organizations to educate their congregations and the community on breast cancer, breast health and the importance of early detection while raising awareness about the disease. Events will target...

If an implant could detect the traveling cancer cells earlier, as well as help prevent their spread, it could help doctors treat the disease earlier and improve the chance of the patient beating the disease.

Based on cases reported to the Friends of Cancer Patients Society charity in the UAE during the first half of this year, breast cancer was the highest form of cancer among women. The charity announced the new trial as it launched its breast cancer campaign, Paint it Pink.

I would say it’s a personal loss to me.

The author, who helped explain several oddities in the brain to the world, died of cancer in his New York City home, New York Times reports. Sacks’s 1973 book Awakenings inspired the 1990 film, starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams (below). According to the Times,...

Dickinson mentioned Oscar-winning “Wall Street” actor Michael Douglas, who alluded to oral sex as a cause for his own case of throat cancer years ago but directly connected it to his tongue activities.

Bollywood singer-composer Aadesh Shrivastava, who was battling a relapsed cancer, passed away post midnight in Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani hospital in Mumbai.  He was 51. Shrivastava had been undergoing cancer treatment at the hospital in Andheri for over 40 days.

The church said that on Sunday mornings visitors would be given numbers “to ensure orderly and fair entrance into President Carter’s class”.

“I get my first radiation treatment for the melanoma in my brain this afternoon”, Carter said.

The liver tumor was removed during surgery at Emory University, where doctors also will use targeted radiation on Carter’s brain tumors and injections of a medication the Food and Drug Administration designated as “breakthrough therapy” and fast-tracked for...

Early this month, Carter announced that advanced cancer had spread from his liver to his brain in the form of melanoma. He will undergo four treatments scheduled at three-week intervals, he said.

Carter spoke briefly about his health before quickly moving on to church lessons.