Tobacco and poverty drive cancer in developing world
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Rising tobacco use and poverty will  fuel cancer across the developing world, more than doubling the  number of new cases to 27 million by 2050, experts predicted on  Thursday.
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NEW YORK  - Cigarette smoking dramatically increases the risk that a woman who has undergone radiation treatment for breast cancer will develop lung cancer later on, a new study shows.
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Smoking has long been known to cause cancer, heart disease, impotence and so on -- now, damage to your IQ can be added to the list.
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Women who develop breast cancer are  no more likely to have aggressive or advanced tumors if they  are cigarette smokers than if they do not smoke, researchers  said on Sunday.
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Women who develop breast cancer are no more likely to have aggressive or advanced tumors if they are cigarette smokers than if they do not smoke, researchers said on Sunday.
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Peanuts are rich in cancer-preventing chemicals, researchers have found.
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Cancer deaths will more than double  to 17 million people each year in 2030 with poor countries  shouldering the heaviest burden from the disease, the head of  the United Nation&#39;s cancer agency said on Monday.
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NEW YORK  - Independent of cigarette smoking, infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is associated with an elevated risk for developing lung cancer, a study shows.
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NEW YORK  - Heavy alcohol use, diabetes,  and viral hepatitis combine synergistically to raise the risk  of developing liver cancer, according to a new report.
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Smoking a joint is equivalent to 20  cigarettes in terms of lung cancer risk, scientists in New  Zealand have found, as they warned of an "epidemic" of lung  cancers linked to cannabis.
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Treatment with a derivative of vitamin A called retinoic acid may help to cut former smokers' risk of lung cancer.
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Health agencies on Thursday called for tackling cervical cancer which has taken on epidemic proportions in developing countries from Brazil to India due to a lack of screening.
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NEW YORK  - People who use chewing tobacco expose themselves to even higher levels of a particular cancer-causing compound than tobacco smokers do, according to a new study.
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Health efforts in the developing world should not ignore the growing problem of non-communicable conditions such as cancer and obesity and need culturally appropriate, cheap solutions, an expert said on Thursday.
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Smoking is killing nearly a million people a year in India, exacting a higher toll than previously thought, but allied problems are often different to those seen in the West, according to research published on Thursday.
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A study of more than 1 million South Koreans suggests diabetes can raise the risk of developing and dying from several types of cancer, including digestive-tract tumors.
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NEW YORK - Television stations in Ghana carry a hip-hop contest sponsored by British American Tobacco. On Mexican billboards, drivers can still see the Marlboro Man, Philip Morris&#39;s masculine image of a smoker.