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(author unknown), American Cancer Society :: News and Features
A new report shows that fewer Americans are lighting up -- a sign control efforts like taxation and legislation may be working....
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Nov 13, 2008
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(author unknown), American Cancer Society :: News and Features
A new study finds racial disparities in cancer death rates have been declining since the early 1990s, at least for certain cancer types....
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Nov 10, 2008
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(author unknown), Cancercompass News: top stories
Breast cancer survivor celebrates her five-year anniversary from hereditary disease By Bridget McCrea For Jennifer Duch, breast self-exams were a way of life beginning at a young age. The BRCA1 gene mutation ? which is linked to certain hereditary cancers ? affected a high percentage of women in her family, including...
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Oct 30, 2008
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(author unknown), American Cancer Society :: News and Features
The National Cancer Institute has stopped a major clinical trial studying whether vitamin E and selenium can prevent prostate cancer because early analysis suggests the supplements don't work....
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Oct 29, 2008
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People with certain types of cancer and other diseases will now be able to get their federal disability claims processed much more quickly under the Social Security Administration's new Compassionate Allowances program....
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Oct 28, 2008
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(author unknown), American Cancer Society :: News and Features
People with a history of basal or squamous cell skin cancer may have a higher risk of developing other cancers later on, new research suggests....
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Oct 23, 2008
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(author unknown), Cancercompass News: top stories
Personal beliefs about inconclusive DNA testing for hereditary breast cancer are associated with cancer-related worry, and such beliefs are an especially strong predictor of whether women had been able to leave the period of DNA-testing behind, reports a study in the October issue of Genetics in Medicine, official journal of the...
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Oct 19, 2008
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(author unknown), Cancercompass News: top stories
While smoking poses a health threat to both men and women, women require less tobacco exposure than men to have a significant increased risk for colorectal cancer, according to new research presented at the 73rd Annual ACG Scientific Meeting in Orlando. In a separate analysis, researchers found smoking may increase the...
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Oct 19, 2008
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(author unknown), Cancercompass News: top stories
In a change from its previous recommendation, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force now recommends that adults age 50 to 75 be screened for colorectal cancer using annual high-sensitivity fecal occult blood testing, sigmoidoscopy every five years with fecal occult testing between sigmoidoscopic exams, or colonoscopy every 10 years. According to...
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Oct 19, 2008
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In a large U.S. population-based study presented at the 73rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology, metabolic syndrome patients had a 75 percent higher risk of colorectal cancer compared to those without metabolic syndrome. Dr. Donald Garrow and Dr. Mark Delegge of the Medical University of South Carolina...
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Oct 19, 2008
