Estudo sobre cancro pâncreas vai iniciar

Um dos cancros mais letais vai ter um estudo que quer determinar quais as melhores opções de tratamento:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-39370595

Sobre o cancro do pâncreas (EN):
http://www.precisionpanc.org

Citando:
"A new pancreatic cancer project has been launched to find ways to speed up scientific discovery to improve the survival rates of patients.

Cancer Research have invested £10m in the PRECISION-Panc project, which aims to find quick ways of finding the right treatment for individual tumours.

Researchers at Glasgow University will receive £8m from the fund.

Prof Andrew Biankin said due to the aggressive nature of the disease, patients did not always get treatment.

"It's essential that the most suitable treatment is identified quickly," he said."

Gene associado a desordens ao nível do colesterol

... que se não forem tratadas (com estatinas desde cedo) podem levar a morte prematura:
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15106022.Gene_puts_thousands_at_risk_of_early_heart_attack_death/

Citando:
"The British Heart Foundation is calling for improved screening to pinpoint those affected by the inherited condition, known as familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH), after new estimates indicated the genetic defect is more common in Scottish children than type one diabetes and is likely to affect around 21,000 people in Scotland."
(...)
"FH causes abnormally high levels of cholesterol in a person’s blood, meaning that otherwise healthy individuals are at a much greater risk of having a heart attack at a young age.

Without treatment, people with FH can die prematurely in their 20s, 30s or 40s. Each child of a parent who has FH has a 50 per cent chance of inheriting the condition.

Early treatment with statins can bring a carrier’s life expectancy back to that of someone without the condition. However, the BHF warns that people are needlessly dying because most people are not diagnosed and treated for the condition, despite one of the faulty genes responsible for the majority of FH cases first being discovered 30 years ago."

Exercício só ao fim de semana tem ainda assim imensos benefícios

Este é o estudo que quem trabalha à semana estava à espera para ficar um pouco mais descansado e chamar uns quantos menos nomes a quem corre dia sim dia não a horas impossíveis (para os primeiros):
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38560616
Citando:
"Cramming all your recommended weekly exercise into one or two weekend sessions is enough to produce important health benefits, a study suggests.
And being active without managing 150 minutes of moderate activity a week was still enough to reduce the risk of an early death by a third.
The findings are based on a survey of about 64,000 adults aged over 40 in England and Scotland."

Publicidade dos anos 80 e aumento do cancro do pulmão

http://www.heraldscotland.com/News/14499022.Lung_cancer_rates_among_women_on_rise_due_to_80s_adverts/


Citando:
"Gregor McNie, Cancer Research UK’s senior public affairs manager in Scotland, said this reflected trends in the popularity of smoking. He said: “Male smoking peaked in the 1970s and started declining at that point. For women it was more in the 1980s.




“Also tobacco marketing focused more on women in the 1980s, targeting housewives.
“The lung cancer rates are a decade behind for women.”
If the figures are adjusted for age, incidence of cancer in general dropped by 3% for men but increased by 6% for women over the decade to 2014. "