The second biggest cause of death among women in Indonesia after cervical cancer (cervical cancer) is breast cancer. According to data from Dharmais Cancer Hospital (2009) there were 126 cases of breast cancer per 100,000 female population.

Actually, people with breast cancer can be cured. Mortality risk could be minimized, if cancer is detected early. For that as a woman you should know the symptoms of breast cancer. Immediately consult a doctor if you have the right of the following symptoms.

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Living in areas of high urban air pollution could trigger a rise in blood pressure. Source pollution can come from motor vehicles, dust, or pollutants from power plants.

The researchers conducted a study with 5000 people on the incidence of heart disease. The analysis was performed by observing the effects of air pollution on the blood pressure between 2000 and 2003.

“Air pollution is not only a trigger for heart attacks and strokes, but also influence the occurrence of the disease process,” said Dr. Barbara Hoffmann, the lead researcher.

High blood pressure is a risk factor ateroklerosis or hardening of the blood vessels that lead to heart disease and stroke. From previous studies have found that increased air pollution, blood pressure is increased, but long-term effect is unknown.

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Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer that develops in the thin cell walls that surround the abdominal cavity, called the peritoneum. Other types of cancer, including mesothelioma malignant pleural mesothelioma, which occurs in the cell wall that surrounds the lungs and malignant pericardial mesothelioma, which occurs in the pericardial wall of the house. peritoneal mesothelioma is the rarest form, the second of the disease and accounts for approximately 20% of cases of mesothelioma each year.

What causes peritoneal mesothelioma?

Peritoneal mesothelioma is known to be caused by exposure to asbestos. Asbestos is said to reach the abdominal wall by one of two methods. The first is through the ingestion of asbestos fibers that are processed by digestion and stay in the peritoneum. The other method is through the lungs and lymph nodes by inhaled asbestos fibers. Malignant pleural mesothelioma is also known to metastasize directly into the abdominal cavity, if disclosure is not slower.

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A protein that functions as a cancer drug for leadership in animal experiments has been developed by an international team that includes several researchers from the University of Western Australia.

The natural protein is known to play an important role in promoting cell death (for example in mammary cells after the young are weaned), prevention of cell proliferation, promoting cell differentiation, and in this new discovery, by blocking the formation of blood vessels.

The trial results, published in the American Journal of Pathology showed that the protein – related protein secreted curly 4 (sFRP4) – inhibits tumors in the same degree as a very successful antibody, Avastin ®.

Winthrop Professor Arun Dharmaraj UWA School of Anatomy and Human Biology and UWA, said Anna University (AU), Chennai, India, holders of patents on the use of sFRP4 as angiogenesis inhibitor and are eager to find a trading partner for project.

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A better understanding of Skp2 gene and its relation to cellular senescence can lead to the development of new agents that can suppress tumor growth in certain types of cancer, researchers at the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center report in the journal Nature. Journal Skp2 is involved in promoting cell cycle regulation, cell proliferation, cell growth and tumor formation, and is overexpressed in a variety of human cancers, according to lead author Hui-Kuan Lin, Ph.D., professor MD Anderson Cancer assistant molecular and cell biology.

Lin and colleagues found that inactivation oncogenes are overexpressed Skp2 after strangling cancer growth by inducing senescence – the irreversible loss of the ability of a cell to divide and grow. Harnessing the power of cellular senescence to push rapidly dividing cells in a dormant state could provide an alternative means of prevention or control of the common malignant tumors such as prostate cancer.

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