More evidence that coffee cuts skin cancer risk

More evidence that coffee, particularly among female drinkers, has a positive effect against the most common form of skin cancer worldwide was released Monday at a major US medical conference.

Women who drank more than three cups per day of caffeinated coffee saw a 20 percent lower risk of getting basal cell carcinoma (BCC), a slow-growing form of cancer, than those who drank less than a cup per month.

Men who drank the same amount saw a nine percent lower risk, said the research presented at the 10th American Association for Cancer Research International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research in Boston.

"Given the nearly one million new cases of BCC diagnosed each year in the United States, daily dietary factors with even small protective effects may have great public health impact," said researcher Fengju Song, a postdoctoral fellow in the department of dermatology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

"Our study indicates that coffee consumption may be an important option to help prevent BCC."

The data was derived from the Nurses' Health Study (Brigham and Women’s Hospital) and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (Harvard School of Public Health).

The nurses study followed 72,921 participants from June 1984 to June 2008. The health professionals study tracked 39,976 participants from June 1986 to June 2008.

Basal cell carcinoma was the most frequently diagnosed skin cancer in the groups, totaling 22,786 cases.

The benefits of coffee drinking were not seen against the next two most prevalent types -- squamous cell carcinoma (1,953 cases) or melanoma (741 cases).

Basal cell carcinoma is a non-melanoma form of skin cancer, and is the most common cancer in the United States. Seventy-five percent of all skin cancers are basal cell carcinomas, according to the American Cancer Society.

It is most common in people with light hair and green or blue eyes, and can manifest itself as a skin sore that bleeds and doesn't heal, though it rarely spreads to other parts of the body.

Previous studies have shown coffee drinkers tend to have fewer incidences of breast, uterine, prostate and colon cancers, but the beneficial effects are not seen in people who drink decaffeinated coffee.

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Most Women Who Get Yearly Mammograms Will Face A False Alarm

Of women who get yearly mammograms, 61 percent will have at least one false-positive result over a decade, a new study shows.

And because of these 'false alarm' test results — which seem to indicate cancer but further tests reveal not to be tumors —7 to 9 percent of women will be recommended to get a biopsy.

If women are instead screened every other year, only 42 percent will have a false positive over a decade, but this lengthened screening interval brings a small increased risk of getting a later-stage cancer diagnosis, the study showed.

"We hope that by helping women know what to expect in terms of false-positive results, they'll be less likely to experience anxiety when they are called back for a repeat screening or biopsy," said study researcher Rebecca Hubbard, an assistant investigator at the Group Health Center for Health Studies in Seattle.

The study researchers say they recommend that women and their doctors develop a screening plan based on the patient's individual risk factors for breast cancer and her tolerance for dealing with such false alarms.

The study will be published online tomorrow (Oct. 18) in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.

Mammogram recommendations

The topic of how often women should get mammograms and at what age they should start has been controversial. The American Cancer Society recommends all women with average risk of breast cancer get a yearly mammogram starting at age 40, and the National Cancer Institute recommends women age 40 and older get a mammogram every year or two.

On the other hand, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued new recommendations in 2009 that women should wait until age 50 to begin the screening, and should have a mammogram every other year, citing false detections, and the unnecessary biopsies and anxiety they can bring.

The new findings emphasized the importance of radiologists being able to review a patient's previous mammograms because it "may halve the odds of a false-positive recall,'' the researchers wrote. Though recommendations for for further testing — fine-needle aspiration or surgical biopsy — are less common than false positives, they can lead to unnecessary pain and scarring. The additional testing also contributes to rising medical costs.

"We conducted these studies to help women understand that having a false-positive result is part of the process for mammography screening," Hubbard said.

The researchers used data from seven mammography registries in the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium, a comprehensive breast cancer registry. They looked at data from nearly 170,000 women from seven regions around the United States, and almost 4,500 women with invasive breast cancer.

Mammograms are going digital

A second study compared digital mammograms with the older technology, film mammograms. Digital mammograms are increasingly being used, the researchers said.

That study included data nearly 330,000 women between the ages of 40 and 79, also from the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium.

The researchers found that digital and film mammography were equally effective for women over age 50, but for women ages 40 to 49 — especially those with dense breast tissue — digital mammograms were slightly more likely to find a cancer. However there was also an increased risk for false positive results for these younger women.

The researchers found that for every 10,000 women 40 to 49 who are given digital mammograms, two more cases of cancer will be identified for every 170 additional false-positive examinations.

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Cara Mengatasi Mual Saat Hamil

Cara Mengatasi Mual Saat Hamil - Rasa mual dan muntah banyak dialami oleh ibu hamil, bahkan rasa mual tersebut sering diisyaratkan sebagai tanda awal kehamilan.

Keluhan mual dan muntah (morning sickness) umumnya terjadi pada trimester pertama kehamilan, terutama pada kehamilan pertama, dan akan hilang dengan sendirinya seiring memasuki trimster kedua dan ketiga.
Meski dinilai normal dan wajar, rasa mual saat hamil dapat menghambat aktivitas, bahkan dapat membuat ibu dan janin kekurangan gizi. Karena dalam banyak kasus, calon ibu merasa mual dan muntah saat mencium bau makanan, termasuk nasi.

Beberapa cara yang bisa dilakukan untuk mengatasi mual saat hamil ini diantaranya:

1. Konsumsi Gizi Seimbang
Pilihlah makanan yang tinggi karbohidrat dan protein. Konsumsi juga buah dan sayuran. Makanlah dalam porsi sedikit tapi sering. Hal ini untuk mencegah perut kosong dan mempertahankan kestabilan kadar gula darah.

2. Bergerak Perlahan
Jangan terburu-buru saat bangun pagi, duduklah terlebih dulu dan perlahan-lahan mulai berdiri.

3. Hindari Pemicu Mual
Setiap ibu hamil memiliki hal-hal tertentu yang dapat memicu mual, seperti parfum atau makanan berbau tajam.

4. Konsumsi Jahe
Untuk pengobatan tradisional, jahe adalah pilihan yang tepat. Konsumsi jahe sesuai selera anda, misalnya dibuat minuman ataupun langsung dikunyah.

Seperti yang telah disinggung sebelumnya, rasa mual saat hamil adalah hal yang normal dan akan menjadi pengalaman tersendiri saat anda mengandung.
Semoga bermanfaat.

Baca juga cara mengatasi badan lemas setelah melahirkan dan obat herbal agar cepat hamil.