Black Friday 2010 predictions for Walmart deals

THE YEAR'S most popular discount shopping event in the United States, the Black Friday 2010 is now 26 days away and the bandwagon of pre-Black Friday sales has started to scorch the retail street.  Kohl's is going to start Power Shopping Sale from November 5 to 7. They are offering gifts, apparel, accessories, decor and more, including 180 Power Shopping offers.
Ace Hardware has released Black Friday 2010 sales advertisement, which features deep discount prices on electronics, home and garden tools, plumbing, tools, holiday decorations and more. The HP Compaq Presario Laptop CQ62-215DX will be available for $349. 99 from the Best Buy Black Friday worthy Laptop deals. This laptop released in 2010 with good looks and AMD CPU and ATI Graphics.
It is predicted that Walmart will feature a variety of toys, electronics, housewares and seasonal items at up to 30% off, starting at the beginning of November. It may include HDTVs, computers and digital cameras. The world largest retailers Walmart Toy Catalog sale will begin on November 7 and continue until Wednesday, November 24. The Kinect for XBox 360 will be available for $149 and the Ford F150 Ride-On Car for $298.
Fred has planned to provide a 20%- 50% discount on their products like electronics, home decor items, pet products, toys, kitchen supplies, sporting goods, office supplies, movies, perfumes and beauty products.

Genetic variants can cause Breast Cancer risk

Study suggests ,father's family history of Breast Cancer and Ovarian Cancer generally overlooked by both patients and doctors.

Genetic counsellor Jeanna McCuaig and her co-authors from Toronto's Princess Margaret Hospital  in Toronto and Montreal wrote in commentary in the journal “The Lancet Oncology”, Health care providers may be "unaware that these women might have inherited the mutated gene from their father …and might not routinely collect this information from their patients,"

Women don't recognize a paternal family history of cancer as a risk factor for the diseases, and are unlikely to volunteer the information unless directly questioned.

Women and Men  have 50 per cent risk of passing on mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 tumour suppressor genes, which increase lifetime risk for breast Cancer and ovarian cancer.

The researchers also determined patients were 5 times more likely to be referred with a paternal, than a maternal, family history of breast or ovarian cancer.

A study, led by researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, has suggested that genetic variants on chromosomes 10 and 20 may modify risk of breast cancer among women with a BRCA2 mutation.Researchers analysed DNA samples from 6,272 women with BRCA2 mutations in a two-stage genome-wide association study.

The chromosome 10 variant identified in the study, near the gene ZNF365, decreased the risk of breast cancer by approximately 25 percent in women also carrying a mutation of the BRCA2 gene.

Researchers suggested that health care providers should be familiar with general trends in genetic cancers, including:

Diagnosis at younger ages than sporadic cancers.

Several family members over generations might be diagnosed with cancer, particularly rare forms or breast cancer and ovarian cancer.

Diagnosis with many primary type of cancers.

According to a study, about 20 to 30 per cent of the more than 690,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer and nearly 190,000 diagnosed with ovarian cancer in developed countries have had a family history of cancer.

The BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations are linked to aggressive hereditary breast cancers, but only account for about 15 per cent of all cases.

About a month to go for Black Friday 2010

THE BLACK Friday, considered the largest and hottest shopping day of the year, is scheduled to be on November 26 this year. Celebrated a day after the Thanksgiving Day in the United States, Black Friday is a shopper's dream come true. The Thanksgiving is a religious day, observed to thank the Almighty. The Thanksigiving day every year falls on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and thus the term Black Friday.

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday in the country. The day after Thanksgiving is not a Federal holiday, but many companies announce an off on this day. The day, which is popular as Black Friday, is considered to be start of the Christmas shopping season. Almost all the retailers in the United States offer the black friday deals of the year on one of the busiest days of shopping.

The concept behind the term 'black' in the 'Black Friday' is that businesses record their losses in red ink and profits in black. Thus, on that particular Friday, cash registers go black with profit! Walmart, Amazon, E-bay, Target, Toys R Us, True Value, Sears, Best Buy, Babies R Us, KMart are among the hundreds of retailers, who offer the best deals of the year on the Black Friday.

On the Black Friday every year, many stores open as early as midnight on the start of the Friday and remain open for 24 hours throughout the day until midnight the following Saturday. More than 100 million people in the country participate in the Black Friday shopping rush every year. Consumers mainly look for the electronics, gadgets, toys, books, decorative and gift items on the largest shopping day of the year in the United States.

Taller men more likely to have Testicular Cancer

Scientists have found Tall men have a higher risk of developing testicular cancer.

An analysis of 13 previous studies, involving thousands of men, found that every extra two inches in height raises the odds of the disease by 13 per cent. It is not yet known what is behind the link, but it may be that the hormones involved in growth help fuel the disease.

Testicular cancer affects some 2,000 men in UK a year and, unlike other cancers, it is most common in the young. Half of cases occur in mens under age of 35, with those aged 25 to 34  are the most likely to be affected.

It is one of the most easily treated forms of the cancer disease, with survivors including seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong and Grand National-winning jockey Bob Champion.

US researchers made the link with height after crunching together data from more than ten studies from around the world. Researcher Dr Michael Blaise Cook,Writing in the British Journal of Cancer, said that genes, nutrition, hormones and other factors that affect height may also play a role in the cancer.

But British cancer experts urged tall men not to worry, saying that the cancer is relatively rare.

Now Check Breast Cancer with DIY breast cancer scanner kit

A new breast cancer scanner could revolutionise detection of the disease for tens of thousands of women suffering with the disease.The lunchbox sized kit will let women test themselves at home in just minutes.

The scanners can be fitted over the bra and there is no need to apply liquid gel, as used in ultrasound.Any tumours are shown by a red dot on a screen.The device was invented by Prof Zhipeng Wu at Manchester University.Professor Wu believes  scanners are small enough to fit inside a lunch box and could eventually be used at home to allow at-risk women to continuously monitor their own breast health, cutting waiting lists for GP tests.

He said: 'The system is portable and as soon as you lie down you can get a scan - it's real-time. The real-time imaging minimises the chance of missing a breast tumour during scanning.'Other systems also need to use a gel, such as in an ultrasound, to work but with our system you don't need that - it can be done simply in oil, milk, water or even with a bra on.

A university spokesman said: "Not only is this a quicker and less intrusive means of testing, it means women can be tested at GP surgeries, which could reduce waiting times and in some cases avoid unnecessary X-ray mammography.Prof Wu added: "This will benefit millions of women in developed and developing countries bearing in mind one in nine may develop breast cancer.

"It could also be used at home for monitoring of breast health."It could also dramatically improve cancer monitoring and treatment in developing countries.

"Although there is still research to be done, the system has great potential to bring a new way for breast cancer diagnosis."Some 45,000 UK women are diagnosed with the disease each year. It claims around 12,000 lives a year.

A £600 million fund for cancer drugs was yesterday confirmed by Health Secretary UK Andrew Lansley - after speculation the plan faced cutbacks.

Cancer on the rise among Scottish women

Women lung cancer death rates bIncreased by nearly 12% over 10 years.

Lifestyle choices including ladette behaviour are driving up the risk of women developing the cancer disease, while levels among men are falling.

Figures of people diagnosed with cancer in Scotland has been on the increase for some time. According to the new data, 28,638 patients tested positive in 2008, compared with 25,771 in 1998. This is largely because cancer is more common among the elderly population.In shifting age profile into account, there was a 6% drop in the incidence of cancer among Scottish men during the decade to 2008. However, it rises by 4% among women.NHS Scotland statistics division, which conducted analysis, said it is the first time when this significant trend had been seen among women.

Women suffering lung cancer and breast cancer are driving the problem. Death rates from lung cancer in women have increased by nearly 12% over the last decade.Nell Barrie, Cancer Research UK’s science information officer, said: “Breast cancer rates have been increasing for some time. This is partly because of lifestyle factors like alcohol consumption, obesity and the trend to have children later in life, which increases their risk of the disease, but it is also partly because more cases are being picked up through the national screening programme.

“Lung cancer rates in women are also going up in Scotland.Number of men dying from lung cancer will continue to fall in Scotland, while female deaths will increase slightly up to 2014. This is mainly because of historical differences in smoking patterns between men and women.”

Ms Sturgeon said: “Skin cancer is clearly linked to excessive exposure to sunlight or use of sunbeds. Those with alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver, a disease that has increased markedly in Scotland in recent years have a significantly increased risk of liver cancer.The incidence of both types of cancer is increasing sharply.

Incidence of skin cancer has also risen sharply,upto 68% in men and 71% in women between 1998 and 2008.People not realising the risks in the past,have to look at the statistics in the coming years to see if the awareness message is getting across.”On a more positive side,new report showed large improvements in the number of sufferers who have survived cancer.We must redouble efforts to change attitudes about making healthy lifestyle choices in Scotland and raise awareness of the serious risks associated with making poor lifestyle choices.

Healthy lifestyle could Prevent cancer risk

Researchers believe making diet and lifestyle changes could prevent bowel cancer.A study published today makes a firm relation between an unhealthy lifestyle, person’s weight and bowel cancer cases, which is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in Wales.

The researchers from Denmark found these recommendations on waist circumference,physical activity,smoking,alcohol and diet could reduce the risk of developing the disease upto 23%.Bowel cancer is the third most common cancer diagnosed in Wales, affecting more than 2,000 people a year.

Researchers from Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, in Copenhagen, said: “Our study reveals the useful public health message that even modest differences in lifestyle might have a substantial impact on colorectal cancer risk and emphasises the importance of continuing vigorous efforts to convince people to follow the lifestyle recommendations.”

The Danish research, which is published by the BMJ today, studied more than 55,000 men and women aged 50 to 64 to examine the relation between healthy lifestyle advice and the risk of bowel cancer in middle-aged people. The participants were followed for 10 years and questioned about their lifestyle habits and diet.

The researchers created a healthy lifestyle index using internationally-accepted public health recommendations from the World Health Organisation, World Cancer Research Fund and the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations.These included being physically active people for at least 30 minutes a day,having no more than 7 drinks a week for women and 14 drinks a week for men,being a non-smoker,having a waist circumference below 88cm for women and 102cm for men and consuming a healthy diet.

During follow up, 678 people were diagnosed with bowel cancer. After looking at how participants managed to keep each of the five lifestyle recommendations, the researchers calculated that if all participants except the healthiest had followed even one additional recommendation, it was possible that 13% of the bowel cancer cases could have been prevented.If all participants had followed all five recommendations, then 23% of the bowel cancer cases could have been avoided.

Dr Rosemary Fox, acting director of the screening division of Public Health Wales, said; “In Wales bowel cancer is the third biggest killer of men and women and around 1,000 people die every year from the disease. However, if it is picked up early, it’s also one of the most treatable forms of cancer“.“Screening aims to detect bowel cancer at an early stage in people with no symptoms. That is why it is so important for everyone aged between 60 and 69 to take up the opportunity to be screened and make it part of their regular health check.”

A second study, also published today, suggests adults with low education should be given access to a decision aid to help them decide whether to take part bowel cancer screening.