Cancer, Cancer Treatment

A study that was published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association revealed that vitamin B supplements did not protect people taking them from developing cancer, although past research has suggested it did have the aforementioned effect.

Lead author of the study Dr. Shumin Zhang of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, along with his team, looked at 5,442 female health-care professionals throughout the United States, all of whom had been taking a supplement including vitamins B6, B12 and B9 (also known as folic acid) daily over a period of about seven and a half years.

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Coffee isn?t harmful to your health, a new study confirms that theory. Is it true that long term, regular coffee consumption may speed the progression of aggressive forms of breast cancer? The findings of a new study published in the Oct. Issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine suggest caffeine ?does not appear to be associated with overall risk of breast cancer.?

For the study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, study co-author Dr. Shumin M. Zhang, from the division of preventive medicine, in the department of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston and colleagues from Tokyo Women?s Medical University in Japan examined the diets of a pool of almost 39,000 women over the age of 45 over a period of ten years. The participants were asked to provide details of their diet, including their coffee habits. 1,188 of the 38,432 study participants developed invasive breast cancer over 10 years of follow-up.

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A study that was published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association revealed that vitamin B supplements did not protect people taking them from developing cancer, although past research has suggested it did have the aforementioned effect.

Lead author of the study Dr. Shumin Zhang of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, along with his team, looked at 5,442 female health-care professionals throughout the United States, all of whom had been taking a supplement including vitamins B6, B12 and B9 (also known as folic acid) daily over a period of about seven and a half years.

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WASHINGTON - Women who take hormone replacement therapy to treat menopause symptoms do not have a higher than usual risk of heart attack, especially if they use a cream or skin patch or take cyclic hormone combinations, Danish researchers reported yesterday.

Their study, published in the European Heart Journal, suggests it is not hormone replacement therapy that raises the risk of heart attacks in women, but the way it is taken.

It also shows that the Women’s Health Initiative, which frightened many women away from HRT after it was stopped in 2002, may not be the last word on treatment.

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