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Endometrial cancer is the most common uterine cancer and research has shown that women who drink 4 or more cups of coffee per day are at reduced risk of endometrial cancer.

When researchers followed dietary details, lifestyle information and medical history of 67,470 women aged 34-59 from the start of the study in 1980 till 2006; they found that compared with women who drank less than 1 cup of coffee a day, those who drank 4 or more cups had a 25% lower risk of endometrial cancer. Participants who drank 2 or more
cups of decaffeinated coffee per day had a 22% lower risk of endometrial cancer.
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Treating early Breast Cancers with radiation and drugs, in addition to removing part of the breast itself, significantly decreases the risk of developing a more invasive form of cancer 15 years later, according to a new Stanford University study.

BestCancer HospitalIndia.com affiliate Hospital in India has recently treated a complicated case of colorectal cancer through Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS).  The patient had reached a critical phase where surgery was compulsorily needed to be performed.

BestCancerHospitalIndia.com  affiliate best cancer hospital in Bangalore,India, South Asia’s largest cancer care network, currently manages a network of 15 functioning cancer centers in India.  It has unveiled several new initiatives mulled by the hospital chain in creating awareness about breast cancer that would herald a new chapter in the approach to its treatment in India. To spearhead a mega awareness campaign to fight breast cancer it has roped in Shabana Azmi, a leading actress of parallel cinema and a social activist, as their ambassador.

The breast cancer awareness month is intended to spread the core message that breast cancer is not a single disease but it is multiple diseases behaving differently in each individual. Further, the hospital aims to communicate the importance of awareness about breast cancer in the first place and highlight the fact that early detection combined with proper diagnosis, staging and treatment would help in achieving long term control or cure.

Professor Frederic Amant will tell the Congress, “This is the first time children of 18 months and older have been examined after chemotherapy during pregnancy and the news is reassuring in respect of the effects of chemotherapy on cognitive and cardiac outcomes.” However, he will say that a significant number (47) of the 70 children born from 68 pregnancies were delivered pre-term and the researchers found that prematurity but not chemotherapy affect these children’s cognitive development significantly.

The study was funded by the Research Foundation Flanders Project and the Flemish government.

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