The cancer treatment that means women can still have children
Four days after the birth of her second child, Helen Mayoh, 41, was told she had advanced kidney cancer. But thanks to remarkable immunotherapy treatment she not only recovered but has also had another child. Here Helen describes her life-changing treatment

Risk Of Relapse For Patients With Anorexia Nervosa Not Decreased By Use Of Anti-depressant
Use of the anti-depressant fluoxetine did not help patients with anorexia nervosa who had restored their body weight maintain that weight or reduce their risk of relapse, according to a study in the June 14 issue of JAMA.Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder primarily affecting young women and marked by an extreme fear of becoming overweight that leads to excessive dieting to the point of serious ill-health and sometimes death. [click link for full article]

Obesity In Prostate Cancer Patients Predicts Cancer Recurrence And Progression
Obesity in a patient is an independent predictor of whether localized prostate cancer will progress following radiotherapy treatment, say researchers at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.In a study reported in the Aug. 1 issue of the journal Cancer, researchers found that moderately and severely obese patients had a 99 percent greater risk of developing biochemical failure (an early marker of cancer progression) than other patients. [click link for full article]

How accurate are the calorie counts on gym machines?
"I worked out for 30 minutes on the elliptical trainer yesterday and it said I burned 850 calories!" This is what one of my clients told me excitedly when...

Abdominal Obesity May Be Associated With Colon Cancer Risk
Waist circumference and a person's waist-to-hip ratio were linked to an increased risk of colon cancer, a new study suggests.Tobias Pischon, M.D., of the German Institute of Human Nutrition in Potsdam, and colleagues examined the link between abdominal obesity and colon and rectal cancer in 368,277 subjects from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. The subjects were followed for an average of 6.1 years. [click link for full article]