Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Oesophageal cancer: Viagra could boost survival rates and make chemo more effective, study finds
dailystar.co.ukerectile dysfunction could also kill cancer cells, a recent study has claimed.Researchers have revealed that a chemical found in Viagra, known as phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5), could help shrink cancers found in the oesophagus.The blue pill was also found to make chemotherapy more effective in those who are resistant to the treatment.According to the NHS, oesophageal cancer can be found anywhere in the oesophagus, also known as the food pipe.There are around 7,900 oesophageal cancer deaths every year in the UK, this equates to 22 deaths every day.Oesophageal cancer has much poorer outcomes and treatment options compared to other diseases.Lead author of the study, Professor Tim Underwood, from the University of Southampton, explained that this cancer can be resistant to chemotherapy.Previous research has found that 80 percent of people with oesophageal cancer do not respond to the treatment.Professor Tim said: “Finding a drug, which is already safely prescribed to people every day, could be a great step forward in tackling this hard-to-treat disease.”Want the Daily Star's sexiest stories news straight to your inbox?
Sign up to our daily Hot Topics newsletter HEREViagra works by relaxing cells that can sometimes protect cancer cells - which happens in those for whom chemo doesn’t work.The PDE5 affects the structure of the protective cells, making them floppy and no longer helping the tumour to thrive and spread.The Southampton study saw researchers test PDE5 inhibitor drugs on cancer cells in the lab on mice.Chemotherapy was found to be effective in 75 percent of cases compared to the usual 20 percent of oesophageal cancer patients.The study, published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, hopes to start human trials.
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