Fri Mar 2, 2012
Embargo lifted 21.00 hrs AEDT Thu 1 Mar US experts have found that taking high dose supplements of retinol, a form of vitamin A, may have a preventative role in melanoma among women. The researchers examined 69,635 men and women who were participants of the VITamins And Lifestyle (VITAL) cohort study to see whether dietary [...]
Fri Oct 21, 2011
Embargo lifted 9.30am AEDT Friday October 21, 2011 Danish researchers have investigated the risk of brain tumours in connection with mobile phones based on a study of 358,403 mobile phone subscribers over an 18 year period. It should be noted that the study is based on data from people with a mobile phone contract and [...]
Tue Feb 1, 2011
EMBARGO LIFTED AT 10.30AM AEDT, TUESDAY 1 FEBRUARY 2011 Japanese scientists have found that dogs can distinguish people with colorectal cancer by the smell of their breath. It is thought that dogs can smell a chemical produced by the cancer cells which circulates in the blood and is present in the breath of people with [...]
Wed Dec 22, 2010
Embargo lifted at 11am AEDT Wednesday 22 December Australian researchers contribute to an international study showing that for four major cancers (breast, ovarian, colorectal, and lung), survival rates at both 1 and 5 years are higher in Australia, Canada, and Sweden than in the UK and Denmark, while in Norway survival rates are intermediate. The [...]
Tue Nov 2, 2010
ONLINE BACKGROUND BRIEFING – Wed 3 November 10.30am AEDT online Australians have a love affair with the sun, however this also means we have the highest rate of skin cancer of anywhere in the world. In fact, over two-thirds of Australians will have a skin cancer at some stage during their life. With another sun-drenched [...]
Wed Jun 23, 2010
A new study from the UK suggests there is no association between risk of early childhood cancers and a mother’s exposure to a mobile phone base station during pregnancy. This is the first study to look at phone masts in Britain as a whole and is the largest of its kind.
Mon May 17, 2010
NATIONAL MEDIA BRIEFING – Tue 18 May at 10.15am AEST in Sydney (Also available online) Media reports this week have suggested a link between mobile phones and cancer. The reports are based on results of the Interphone study, the largest epidemiological study into mobile phones and cancer carried out to date. But what does the study [...]
Mon May 17, 2010
Increasing mobile phone use has led to public concern about possible cancer risks. Interphone is an interview-based, case-control study of mobile phone use in adults and focuses on the two main types of brain tumour, glioma and meningioma. It was coordinated by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and carried out in 13 [...]