Cancer Risk

  • HealthYahoo Life UK

    A bottle of wine a week as bad as smoking 10 cigarettes for women

    Researchers hope the findings will help people make more informed decisions about their drinking.

  • NewsYahoo Life UK

    Your sofa and other weird things that are apparently increasing your risk of cancer

    Sitting on the sofa certainly isn’t one of them, but experts have warned that toxic chemicals used to fireproof your settee could be causing a surge in thyroid cancers. The research revealed that people who are exposed to high levels of flame retardants are more than twice as likely to develop the cancer. Thyroid cancer cases have risen by 74 per cent in the last decade in the UK, with researchers blaming the rising rates on flame retardants.

  • NewsGail Johnson

    More than half of people with melanoma have no moles

    Most patients with melanoma, it turns out, had few moles and no atypical ones at all. Published in the JAMA Dermatology online journal, the study looked at 566 patients with melanoma, which is the deadliest form of skin cancer. In patients younger than 60, having more than 50 total moles was associated with reduced risk of thick melanoma, a key prognostic indicator for the disease.

  • NewsSimone Olivero

    Your favourite comfort food may actually be killing you

    A surprising study out of the University of Texas has many people questioning their favourite comfort foods. “Previous research suggests increased levels of IGFs are associated with increased lung cancer risk. The glycemic index (GI) is a way of measuring the quality of dietary carbohydrates in food based on how quickly they raise blood sugar levels after consumption.