Archive for May 15th, 2008

Vitamin C supplements can help halt the serious depletion of vitamin E in smokers and possibly help prevent cancer, U.S. researchers report. The study led by investigators at Oregon State University is the first to demonstrate this type of interaction between the two antioxidants in humans. They researchers say the findings also suggest a...
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ex-smokers were reminded that the habit they kicked may come back to haunt them. The newscaster Peter Jennings announced that he has lung cancer, even though he quit smoking 20 years ago (except for a brief relapse after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks). Smokers who quit are rewarded quickly when it comes to heart...
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Women who smoke are more likely to develop lung cancer than men who smoke. However, women smokers are less likely to die of the disease than their male counterparts, according to new research. Reactions to the findings, published in the July 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association , were slightly circumspect. “It’s not...
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Preliminary research suggests that nicotine can cripple chemotherapy in lung cancer patients, even if it comes in a patch or gum designed to help a smoker quit the life-threatening habit. The researchers only looked at a sampling of human cells in the laboratory, and they don’t know if nicotine could potentially derail chemotherapy for other...
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New parents who smoke are putting their infants in danger because secondhand smoke contains cancer-causing chemicals, a new study found. These carcinogens were found in urine samples from nearly half of the infants of parents who smoked, the researchers said. “There were detectable levels of a lung carcinogen that comes from cigarette smoke in...
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U.S. researchers have pinpointed a key killer compound in cigarette smoke. The chemical acrolein — found in tobacco and also some cooking oils — appears to be a prime cause of smoking-related lung cancer and some nonsmoking-related lung cancers as well, according to studies conducted with lung cancer cells. Acrolein can trigger DNA mutations in cells...
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A U.S. study concludes there is no link between smoking marijuana and increased risk of lung cancer — even among heavy, long-term users. The California researchers also found that smoking marijuana does not appear to increase the risk of head and neck cancers, such as cancer of the tongue, mouth, throat or esophagus. The...
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Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese men in California have a cancer death rate three times greater than that of South Asian females living in the state. In fact, the cancer death rate for California females of Asian origin is one of the lowest in the world, according to a University of California, Davis, study. The reason?...
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While the nicotine in tobacco and in nicotine-replacement patches and gums doesn’t cause lung cancer, it may help it along, a new study finds. “Nicotine can promote the growth of new blood vessels and new cells — two things that are correlated with the progression of cancer — and our study shows how this...
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