Gastric bypass surgery, popularly known as weight loss surgery may lower the chances of getting cancer in the morbidly obese people, new findings suggest. Gastric bypass surgery decreases the incidence of cancer by more than 80 percent over the five years following the procedure, Canadian researchers reported Wednesday.

The treatment for obesity has already known to reduce heart disease and diabetes but researchers have now found that incidence of two of the most common tumors, breast and colon, were reduced by 85 percent and 70 percent respectively

Women with early-stage breast cancer who were treated with the drug Zometa to prevent bone loss had a better chance that the disease would not come back, a study has found.

Zometa, made by Novartis AG, is currently used for cancers that have already spread to the bone. Recent studies indicate that the drug also substantially cut the risk that the hormone-positive breast cancer would return

Two pathologists in Vancouver and Saskatoon are offering a Web-based laboratory test that would provide a second medical opinion for only $600.

The system is in response to recent discoveries of wrong test results on Canadian women at labs in Newfoundland and Labrador which failed to detect for several years errors of a breast cancer test

Women who get an adequate amount of vitamin D through daily exposure to the Sun are less likely to develop breast cancer as compared to women who do not, new studies suggests.

The "sunshine vitamin," when taken in high doses may cut the risk of breast cancer by 70%. Vitamin D is synthesized naturally in human body after the skin is exposed to the ultraviolet (UV) rays and lack of UV exposure is linked to higher risk of breast cancer

Inadequate exposure to the sun, the main source of Vitamin D, was linked by a Mount Sinai Hospital study to breast cancer. Data used by researchers included a study on 512 Canadian women with an average age of 50 undergoing breast cancer treatment at three University of Toronto hospitals from 1989 to 1995.

Findings showed that 94 percent of women had higher chances of having breast cancer if they lacked sufficient exposure to sunshine. But getting Vitamin D is linked with geography. In cold countries like Canada, the strong ultraviolet rays from the sun is only available on certain months