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It’s vital to prevent chronic hepatitis

November 26th, 2011 No comments

Doctor links smoking with throat cancer

November 5th, 2011 No comments

A prominent U.S. physician says 80 per cent of all throat cancer in North America may be due to cigaret smoking and the use of alcohol.  Dr. Arnold Aronson of the Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minn. said there is increasing evidence that smoking causes organic illness affecting the voice box. Read more…

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Gene damage key to creating cancer test

September 19th, 2011 No comments

Researchers have moved one step closer to developing a test that could predict some women’s vulnerability to breast and ovarian cancer. According to a report in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association, the research team that last year identified a gene linked to a higher risk of hereditary breast cancer has now identified 38 mutations on the gene. Read more…

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Cancer treatment guidelines formed

September 1st, 2011 No comments

The nation’s top 13 cancer centers have joined to make sure doctors, not insurance companies, decide the best treatment for cancer patients. The fledgling coalition has developed treatment guidelines, a move experts hope will prevent standards from being watered down as managed care companies like HMOs increasingly decide what care patients receive. Read more…

Cancer can affect all colors of skin

August 22nd, 2011 No comments

Contrary to popular belief, African-Americans, Asians and Hispanics are not magically immune from the sun’s scorching rays. Sunlight can be toxic for everyone, regardless of skin color. “It’s a common belief that skin cancer does not occur in blacks or pigmented people,” said Dr. Lynda M. Crawford, a Maryland dermatologist, who highlighted the problem of skin cancer among minorities at the National Medical Association’s recent convention in Atlanta. “Although black people have more pigment, it is not complete protection against the sun.” Read more…

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Fighting breast cancer: How do we treat the problem?

August 19th, 2011 No comments

Today’s therapy for breast cancer is so immensely diversified, complex, and volatile that any summary of what is available now, and on the immediate horizon, must remain very slim and generalized. It may be fair to compare prior therapy to carpet bombing — techniques that obliterated everything, good or bad, in a wide swath to the recent precision, pinpoint shootdown of our decaying satellite last week as an example of today’s therapy. Read more…

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