by drstegallio | Jul 13, 2017 | Cancer, Cancer Nutrition
Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have used animal models to reveal new information about the impact — positive and negative — that soy consumption could have on a common breast cancer treatment. The scientists have uncovered the...
by drstegallio | Jul 10, 2017 | Cancer, Cancer Nutrition, Cancer Research
Feeding pregnant female mice a diet high in fat derived from common corn oil resulted in genetic changes that substantially increased breast cancer susceptibility in three generations of female offspring, reports a team of researchers led by scientists at Georgetown...
by drstegallio | Jun 28, 2017 | Cancer, Cancer Research
The study questions whether reliance on insufficiently-validated antibodies has led science down a dead-end path since the discovery of estrogen receptor beta (ESR2) in the 1990s. Cecilia Williams, a researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and the...
by drstegallio | Jun 19, 2017 | Cancer, Cancer Research
The new study explores the link between popular hair products and breast cancer risks. In particular, chemicals in these products, including dyes and relaxers, have been implicated to be carcinogenic in some animal studies. However, the evidence for this link remains...
by drstegallio | Jun 16, 2017 | Cancer, Cancer Nutrition, Cancer Research
French authorities are considering the implementation of a simplified nutrition labelling system on food products to help consumers make healthier food choices. One of the most documented candidates (Five-Color Nutrition Label/Nutri-score) is based on the British Food...
