health - "cancer"

Feelings of happiness and optimism play a positive role against breast cancer. Research published in the open access journal BMC cancer suggests that while staying positive has a protective role, adverse life events such as the loss of a parent or close relative, divorce or the loss of a spouse can increase a woman's risk of developing the disease.

New research may explain why breast cancer tends to be more aggressive in women with denser breast tissue. Breast cancer cells grown in dense, rigid surroundings step up their invasive activities, Vanderbilt-Ingram cancer Center investigators report in the Sept. 9 issue of Current Biology. The findings suggest a cellular mechanism for the correlation between human breast tissue density and tumor aggressiveness.

UroToday.com - A report in the Journal of General Internal medicine by Dr. Lindsay Deuster and colleagues evaluates the ability of residents to communicate with patients about cancer screening - and specifically the use of jargon language during these counseling sessions. Jargon is defined by the authors as 'specialized language of a trade, profession, or similar group' that is not easily understood by others.

UroToday.com - This article, recently published in the online issue of European Urology, developed standard reporting methodology to define the type, incidence, and severity of early postoperative morbidities following radical cystectomy. Between 1995 and 2005, 1142 consecutive radical cystectomy patients were entered into a prospective complication database and retrospectively reviewed for accuracy.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. This year, 184,000 women and 2,000 men will learn they have the disease, according to the American cancer Society.

A GENE which triggers an aggressive cancer of the nervous system that mainly affects children under five has been identified by scientists. It is hoped the breakthrough will

Researchers have uncovered a big clue as to why some of the bacteria that cause stomach ulcers pose a greater risk for serious problems like stomach cancer than others; it turns out these bacteria can exploit the surrounding stomach cells to protect them from the immune system. Helicobacter pylori is a bacterial strain that can infect the human stomach and induce inflammation, ulcers, and potentially even stomach cancer. However, only a small fraction of H.