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Worries over skin cancer mean that some people shun the sun altogether - which could increase their risk of brittle bone disease.

A long-time microbial inhabitant of the human stomach may protect children from developing asthma, according to a new study among more than 7,000 subjects. Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that has co-existed with humans for at least 50,000 years, may lead to peptic ulcers and stomach cancer. Yet, kids between the ages of 3 and 13 are nearly 59 percent less likely to have asthma if they carry the bug, the researchers report.

Researchers have identified two potential molecular markers that may predict outcomes for patients with stomach cancer, one of the most common and fatal cancers worldwide.

Canadian researchers have discovered that there is a low risk of adverse effect from reducing pre-op chemo by up to 25%, according to findings published in the online journal ecancermedicalscience.

The veteran radio broadcaster Alan Jones has reportedly had successful surgery for prostate cancer.

Allison Boyd, a 24-year-old Trent University graduate student, is embarking on a leading-edge breast cancer risk study, emboldened by a $27,500 Canadian Breast cancer Foundation fellowship.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and Canadian researchers have taken steps toward developing a gene test to determine whether a patient's lung cancer is especially aggressive, or whether radical treatment can be avoided.

Breast cancer research needs to investigate how a person's ethnicity influences their response to treatment and its outcome, according to a new Comment piece in The Lancet (18 July) by researchers from Imperial College London. Emerging evidence suggests that particular drugs may benefit people from one ethnic group more than others, because of differences in their genetic makeup.

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HealthDay - SUNDAY, July 20 (HealthDay News) -- A sweeping genetic analysissuggests that the activity of certain genes might someday allow doctors topredict which lung cancer patients need more aggressive therapies andwhich do not.