Official: Oral Cancer Can Strike Anyone
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About 30,000 Americans each year contract oral cancer, and 8,000 of them will die, but people remain ignorant of a disease that can be cured if caught in the early stages, a University of Medicine &amp; Dentistry of New Jersey official said Wednesday.
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Scientists in Iceland find relatives of patients are at a significantly higher risk of developing cancer than are members of the general population.
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Men should be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted wart virus to protect them against a type of mouth and throat cancer, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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Researchers are puzzled over what may cause high levels of respiratory and throat cancers found in various clusters across the county.
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Toxic chemicals don't just hurt us in big doses. An environmental oncologist argues that myriad tiny amounts of cancer-causing agents in our environment--and even in our shampoo--can make us sick.
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A study conducted in Iceland indicates that your chances of getting certain types of cancer increase dramatically if someone in your family had the disease, including even a distant relative.
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Secondhand smoke can cause cancer. It&#39;s what the surgeon general says. So too the Environmental Protection Agency. And the World Health Organization.
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Mouth cancer rates could soar because young people are smoking and drinking more, experts have warned.
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By Dr Koshy Philip  IF statistics are anything to go by, alarmingly more lives have been lost to cancer than to war. And this status quo may continue.
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Cancer can really mess up a person&#39;s life, even years after he or she has beaten the disease, US researchers reported on Tuesday.
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One in four U.S. women ages 14 to 59 is infected with the sexually transmitted virus that in some forms can cause cervical cancer, according to the first broad national estimate.
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NEW YORK  - Men who consume high quantities of fruits, especially citrus fruits and juices, have a significantly lower risk of developing oral premalignant lesions, irregular tissue that has not yet developed into cancer, according to the findings published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
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There are totally 1.8 million cancer sufferers in China, with an incidence of disease reaching 70/100,000, said Wu Fan, director of the National Center for Chronic and Non-communicable Disease Control and Prevention.
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By Tulsa World, Okla.  Feb. 13--OKLAHOMA CITY -- An Oklahoma City lawmaker said Monday that she won't press her bill that would require all girls entering the sixth grade to be immunized against the human papillomavirus, which is said to lead to cervical cancer.
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Thyroid cancer, a disease that afflicts about 23,600 people in the United States each year, usually is curable, except for a rare variety that is among the deadliest of all tumors.
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Dec. 27, 2004 - If your cousin has cancer, you may also be at risk for the disease. That&#39;s according to a new study that suggests the family-associated increased risk of some cancers may extend well beyond the immediate family.
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MONDAY, Jan. 3 (HealthDayNews) -- A major advance in using saliva to detect oral cancer is outlined in a study funded by the U.S. National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research.