HIV can be cured by cancer drug - Researchers

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Researchers say the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) can be flushed out of its hiding places in the body using a cancer drug.

Already, the anti-retroviral therapy, destroys the virus residing in the bloodstream, but leaves “HIV reservoirs” untouched.

This latest study shows that the cancer drug is “highly potent” at reactivating hidden HIV.

Experts say the findings are interesting, but it is important to know if the drug is safe in patients, to aviod complications.

A strategy known as “kick and kill” is thought to be key to curing HIV. The kick would wake up the dormant HIV, allowing the drugs to kill it.

This is good news!

MALE BREAST CANCER

When people hear about breast cancer, they think it can never happen to a man.
Well that's ignorance and that's why I chose to make out time from my busy schedule today, to talk about MALE BREAST CANCER.

Male breast cancer is a cancer that forms in the breast tissue of men. It is a rare condition but it exist.
It is the same as female breast cancer and occurs when a malignant tumour develops in the cells of the breast. The cancer may spread to surrounding tissue, to the lymph nodes and to other areas of the body.

It is rare but male breast is more common in men over the age of 50.

The cause of male breast cancer is not well understood for now, though scientist are currently working on it, but some of the risk factors includes;

Increasing age (over 50 years of age)


High estrogen levels (which can occur from obesity or as a result of diseases such as Klinefelter's syndrome).

Use of hazardous chemicals on skin

Exposure to radiation

Some testicular disorders

A strong family history of breast or ovarian cancers.

smoking causes 50% of total major cancer deaths

Smoking was responsible for nearly half of deaths due to certain types of cancers in the US in 2011.

About 48.5 per cent of nearly 346,000 deaths attributed to one of the 12 types of cancer known to be caused by smoking were due to cigarette use, according to the study published online in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The large number of deaths comes despite concerted efforts to reduce cigarette use across the US.

'Continued progress in reducing cancer mortality, as well as deaths from many other serious diseases, will require more comprehensive tobacco control, including targeted cessation support,' the report concluded.

Smoking prevalence has dropped in the US from 23.2 per cent in 2000 to 18.1 per cent in 2012, researchers said.

Of the lung, bronchus and trachea cancer deaths studied, some 80 per cent were attributed to smoking.

About 77 per cent of larynx cancer deaths studied were connected to smoking, the study said.

The researchers noted limitations in their data, including lack of racial diversity and that non-cigarette tobacco exposure was not included.

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