| Obesity-related cancers take a toll in Southern Africa: Study reveals alarming trends |
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The latest breast cancer news from News Medical |
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 | | |  Study suggests licorice-derived liquiritigenin has breast cancer prevention potential for high-risk postmenopausal women Researchers evaluated the potential of three licorice (Glycyrrhiza) species, i.e., G. glabra (GG), G. uralensis (GU), and G. infata (GI), and hops (Humulus lupulus), and their main bioactive polyphenols, to prevent breast malignancy. | | | | |  Obesity-related cancers take a toll in Southern Africa: Study reveals alarming trends Research analyzes the prevalence and mortality rates of obesity-related cancers in 16 Southern African countries. It identifies leukemia, esophageal cancer, and colon/rectum cancer as leading causes of cancer mortality in males, and breast cancer, leukemia, and esophageal cancer in females. | |
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| | | | |  While physicians mostly applauded a government-appointed panel's recommendation that women get routine mammography screening for breast cancer starting at age 40, down from 50, not everyone approves. | | | | |  The federal government is reconsidering a decision that breast cancer patients, plastic surgeons, and members of Congress have protested would limit women's options for reconstructive surgery. | |
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