Sentences with phrase «against endometrial cancer»

Her team is now crunching their data for prostate cancer and beginning a new study investigating possible exercise benefits against endometrial cancer.

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The NSW Cancer Council campaigns against junk food advertising to children because obesity is a risk factor for cancers including bowel, esophegal, pancreas, kidney, post-menopausal breast and endometrial.

Studies have shown that infants who are breastfed are less likely to develop diarrheal diseases, ear infections and asthma, and that breastfeeding can protect the mother against breast, cervical and endometrial cancer.

Use of oral contraceptives (usually referred to as «the pill»), even for just a few years, gives substantial long - term protection against endometrial (womb) cancer, and the longer the pill is used the greater the reduction in risk, according to a detailed re-analysis of all the available evidence, published in The Lancet Oncology journal.

Reducing the number of times a woman ovulates is actually good for her, says Serina Floyd, MD, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Duke University School of Medicine: «The longer you take the Pill the more it protects against endometrial and ovarian cancers.»

For many women, birth control pills provide huge benefits: They protect against unplanned pregnancies, can reduce symptoms of PMS and other hormonal issues, and might lower the risk of endometrial and ovarian cancer.

In other words, it maintains the secretory endometrium, it protects against fibrocystic breast, it helps to prevent breast cancer, it helps to use fat for energy, and it helps to prevent endometrial cancer.

Studies in humans have shown that lycopene is protective against a variety of cancers including prostate of course, but also colorectal, breast, lung, endometrial, pancreatic, bladder, cervical and skin cancers.

In fact, melatonin has a calming effect on several reproductive hormones, which may explain why it seems to protect against sex hormone - driven cancers, including ovarian, endometrial, breast, prostate and testicular cancers.

Among other benefits, breastfeeding: stimulates the release of the hormone oxytocin in the mother's body promoting bonding between mother and baby; satisfies baby's emotional needs; provides superior nutrition; helps prevent maternal breast cancer, endometrial cancer, ovarian cancer and osteoporosis; helps prevent future breast cancer in infant girls; promotes higher infant IQ; helps pass baby's meconium; provides immunization against disease; is more digestible than formula; aids in mother's post-partum physical recovery; helps protect the infant from Crohn's disease, juvenile diabetes, allergies, asthma, SIDS, hemophilus b. virus, cardopulmonary distress, ulcerative colitis, necrotizing enterocolitis, and other medical problems; enhances vaccine effectiveness, and is a natural contraceptive.