Washington, May 25: A made-in-Canada therapy for bladder cancer shows promising results, according to a new research.

Lead researcher Alvaro Morales says that the breakthrough using the drug Urocidin follows thirty years of his research in this important area.

Washington, June 27: A new study on mice has found that pregnancy may give some protection against bladder cancer.

The findings by investigators at the University of Rochester Medical Center showed that female mice that had never become pregnant had approximately 15 times as much cancer in their bladders as their counterparts that had become pregnant.

The laboratory examinations made by US researchers on rats have found that a concentrated extract of freeze-dried broccoli sprouts reduces the growth of bladder tumors by more than half.

Dr. Yuesheng Zhang of Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y. stated that the new outcome supports human epidemiologic studies, which advise eating cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli is linked with reduced risk for bladder cancer.