Cachexia (aka “wasting syndrome”) is a condition that causes your muscles to waste away. It comes with extreme weight loss and can include loss of body fat along with muscle. It's one of the symptoms you may have with chronic conditions, including: Chronic renal failure HIV Cancer Multipl...
The exact causes of breast cancer are largely unknown, but both environmental and genetic factors are involved. Specificmutationsin genes calledHER2,BRCA1,BRCA2,CHEK2, andp53have been linked to breast cancer. These mutations may beinheritedor acquired. Mutations that are inherited often substantially...
It causes stress in your own mind and body as well as in your relationships with friends and family. Cancer treatments can make it hard to do the things you’ve always done as a human being, a parent, or an employee. There’s nothing in your daily existence that cancer doesn’t touch...
Conclusions These data suggest that weight gain during adult life, specifically since menopause, increases the risk of breast cancer among postmenopausal women, whereas weight loss after menopause is associated with a decreased risk of breast cancer. Thus, in addition to other known benefits of health...
But we don't yet fully understand all the ways obesity causes cancer. So there's still more to know about how weight loss could reverse these effects. Why is there seemingly more of an effect in women? There are many possible explanations. It could be that because these female cancers are...
41 Our estimate for total lost earnings due to cancer death is lower than that of an earlier study ($115.8 billion in 2000).4 Unlike the prior study, we did not include cancer deaths in persons 85 years or older, nor did we generalize employment status in those 75 to 79 years to all...
What Causes Stomach Cancer? Scientists don’t know exactly what makescancercells start growing in the stomach. But they do know a few things that can raise your risk for the disease. One of them is infection with a common bacteria,H. pylori, which causes ulcers.Inflammationin your gut calle...
as well as developing overweight and obesity at younger ages in early adulthood might increase cancer risk. This suggests that overweight and obesity prevention should start in early adulthood and that weight management and weight loss interventions leading to shorter durations of overweight and obesity...
Additionally, obesity causes secondary changes that are related to insulin signalling and lipid deregulation that may also foster cancer development. Understanding these molecular links may provide an avenue for preventive and therapeutic strategies to reduce cancer risk and mortality in an increasingly ...
In cancer patients, a syndrome called cachexia causes changes in metabolism and appetite. It can lead to the loss of critical skeletal muscle and fat that weakens the body and, in some cases, can make cancer treatments less effective. Studies suggest that as much as 30% of all cancer deaths...