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Breastfeeding offers many benefits for both baby and mom. A recent study found that breastfeeding provides protection against cancer for women who have been treated to overcome various types of cancer during childhood. In this article we tell you more details on this finding and other benefits of breastfeeding and breast milk.

Breast milk not only provides essential nutrients and antibodies against diseases to babies. As mentioned earlier, the benefits of breastfeeding are not just for newborns. Mums can also benefit from breastfeeding or breastfeeding. Read the rest of this entry »

In recent years, researchers have directed their efforts to develop compounds that could selectively inhibit the enzyme tyrosine kinase, as we have seen, is responsible for the uncontrolled proliferation of blood cells. The tyrosine kinase inhibitors slow or stop the actions of BCR-ABL, leading to immediate death of cells containing the Philadelphia chromosome.

In most patients, these drugs are able to achieve good control of the disease over time. It’s the reason they have become the initial treatment of choice in most patients with newly diagnosed chronic myeloid leukemia.

Imatinib or Glivec is a drug that can be used in all phases of the disease, which has shown great benefits. Thus, 97% of patients achieved a complete hematologic response rate and 76% a complete cytogenetic response. Read the rest of this entry »

The main goal of treatment is to reduce or eliminate cells containing the abnormal Philadelphia chromosome. This is measured through the so-called cytogenetic response. If the treatment is effective, will cause the cell count returns to normal. This is measured through the call haematological response.

If a hematologic response is achieved will reduce the severity of symptoms associated with this disease, but progression of the accelerated and blastic phases will continue unless a cytogenetic response is achieved. Achieving a hematologic response is important, but does not ensure that the disease is adequately controlled. Read the rest of this entry »

The Chronic Myeloid Leukimia has three phases:

- Chronic Phase: courses with fewer than 5% blasts in the bone marrow circulation. Most patients (85%) are in this phase are initially diagnosed. Usually lasts several years and readily controlled with medical treatment with oral drugs.

- Accelerated phase: gradually affects the maturation of white blood cells. Detected between 10 and 20% blasts in blood or bone marrow. At this stage the number of diseased cells in the body is more difficult to control with drugs, probably due to new mutations appeared in the blasts. Read the rest of this entry »

Basically it is a chronic disorder of the bone marrow, the spongy tissue that fills the long bones and produces all the body’s blood cells (red and white cells and platelets).

Patients with this disease have become an anomaly that breakage of a chromosome that attaches to another chromosome. This alteration results in the emergence of a new abnormally short chromosome called the Philadelphia chromosome. Read the rest of this entry »

Quite likely you know someone who has had cancer, like a family older than you or a relative of a friend of yours. But sometimes the cancer also affects adolescents and, when the affected person is you, then the word cancer takes on new meaning, a meaning that you can live as something very personal and frightening.

If you have been diagnosed with cancer, you should know that although it is rare that people will develop cancer during adolescence, you’re not alone. The good news is that most teens who get cancer survive and can resume a normal life.

The word cancer actually includes a group of diseases, rather than be single. What they all have in common is that the body’s cells (tiny units that make up all living things) behave abnormally, growing and multiplying uncontrollably and eventually form tumors.

Many people who have cancer (or who knows someone who has cancer) finds out about it helps you better understand your situation and have the feeling that the more control. Being informed about cancer, it helps people feel more prepared to ask relevant questions and to take responsibility for therapeutic options. Read the rest of this entry »

To help prevent cancer, specifically, blood would have to drink, at least, about five cups of green tea per day, according to findings of a recent Japanese study.

This ancestral infusion and has been linked with big benefits to our health: since it is good for the heart until it is useful to treat overweight or obese.

According to Dr. Toru Naganuma, School of Medicine of Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, green tea also “would have a favorable effect on some cancers.”

In this timely study, Naganuma and colleagues gathered information on food habits and consumption of green tea from nearly 43,000 Japanese men and women between 40 and 79 years to see the possible development of blood cancers or “lymphatic system”.

These adults, at baseline, were healthy and showed no tumor history. After nine years of follow up, there were about 157 blood cancers, spinal cord and lymphatic system within the group examined.

Thus, the team found that the overall risk of developing cancers of the blood was up to 42 percent lower among those who had the habit of drinking five or more cups of green tea per day.

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