Report sees 7.6 million global 2007 cancer deaths
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About 7.6 million people will die this year worldwide from various types of cancer, with lung cancer -- heavily driven by smoking -- killing 975,000 men and 376,000 women, the American Cancer Society said on Monday.
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The U.S. death rate from cancer has continued a steady decline that began in the early 1990s but it will still kill a projected 565,650 Americans this year, the American Cancer Society said on Wednesday.
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Cancers among children and older teenagers are increasing more quickly in Europe than 30 years ago, according to a major study published today.
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Alcohol abuse kills some 75,000 Americans each year and shortens the lives of these people by an average of 30 years, a US government study suggested on Thursday.
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Scientists believe they have found a way to spot which breast and ovarian cancers are most likely to be fatal.
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Some 1.6 million people, mainly small children, die each year from a "kitchen killer" -- disease brought on by inhaling smoke from cooking stoves and indoor fires, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
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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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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's cancer agency said on Monday.
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Life expectancy in the United States has increased to almost 78 years, the country's highest on record, amid a downturn in deaths from heart disease, cancer and stroke, according to new federal estimates published on Wednesday.
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The World Health Organization (WHO)launched here Thursday an atlas of heart disease and stroke, graphically detailing a global epidemic that is the leading single cause of death worldwide.
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According to the American Cancer Society, smoking will cause about 30 percent of the 563,700 cancer deaths this year. The American Cancer Society also reports that
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Almost a quarter million women worldwide die from cervical cancer each year although the disease is largely preventable, the U.N. health agency said Thursday.
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Indonesia reported nearly 7,000 new  deaths on Friday from the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami it  produced, taking its toll of confirmed dead to 101,318.
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Over the past 14 years there have been 114 deaths from cancer in Huangmengying, a village with a population of more than 2,400 in Shenqiu County, Central China&#39;s Henan Province.
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Heart diseases and strokes kill 17 million people every year, more than any other cause, and are increasingly likely to afflict people in poor countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.
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Heart diseases and strokes kill 17 million people every year and are increasingly likely to afflict people in poor countries, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday as it published an atlas mapping the scale of the epidemics.
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NEW YORK  - The number of breast cancer surgeries that a hospital performs seems to be associated with the likelihood of subsequently dying from breast cancer, Milwaukee-based researchers have found.