Cancer Deaths Up By 5,000
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U.S. cancer deaths rose by more than 5,000 in 2005, a somewhat disappointing reversal of a two-year downward trend, the American Cancer Society reported
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FRIDAY, Dec. 8 (HealthDay News) -- There were important advances in the detection and treatment of cancer this year -- more people than ever are now surviving the disease -- but cuts in government cancer research dollars could slow progress in the fight.
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The study, conducted by deCODE Genetics in Iceland, examined the rates at which cancer occurred among all first to fifth-degree relatives of 32,000 patients who had cancer diagnosed between 1955 and 2002.
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University of Mississippi researchers have determined in a animal embryo model alcohol use fuels the growth of cancerous tumors. For almost a hundred years mounting evidence has linked alcohol use to an increased
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On smoggy days, deaths from heart and respiratory ailments and other diseases rise, causing several thousand more people throughout the United States to die each year, according to a study published Tuesday that links air pollution and mortality in 95
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Developing countries are facing a growing cancer epidemic and expected to see more than two thirds of new cases worldwide over the next 10 years, UN health officials warned on Monday.
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Smoking killed nearly 5 million people worldwide in 2000, with men more than three times as likely as women to go to an early grave, according to a study published on Wednesday in the journal Tobacco Control.
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Asia is bracing for a dramatic surge in cancer rates over the next decade as people in the developing world live longer and adopt bad Western habits that greatly increase the risk of the disease.
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Pesticides or chemicals in the environment may be behind the steady rise in cases of childhood leukemia, which have increased five-fold since the early 1900s, scientists said on Monday.
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Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer cases and cancer deaths around the world, claiming 1.3 million lives each year.
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By MARK PRIGG  BRITAIN'S fish population is facing a cancer epidemic, government scientists said today.   They claim that in some species, up to 25 per cent of the population suffers from liver cancer.
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Cancer death rates are down in the United States, but certain cancers seem to becoming more common. Why?
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NEW YORK  - In women with breast cancer,  the probability of dying from that malignancy, as opposed to  some other cause, can range from 3 percent to 85 percent,  depending on factors such as disease stage and patient age at  diagnosis, new research shows.
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(HealthDayNews) -- After cancers of the lung and breast, colorectal cancer is the third-leading cause of cancer deaths among U.S. women. About 130,000 new cases of colorectal cancer are diagnosed in the United States every year, resulting in 56,000 deaths.
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Mouth cancer rates could soar because young people are smoking and drinking more, experts have warned.
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Some numbers shed light on prostate cancer. For example, one in six American men will be diagnosed during his lifetime. One in 32 -- nearly 30,000 men -- will die of the illness this year.
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Blacks still have a much higher  death rate from cancer than whites even though U.S. cancer  death rates are down overall and among blacks as well, the  American Cancer Society said on Thursday.