Radon gas linked to cancer deaths
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Radon gas is responsible for a significant number of lung cancer deaths, research has found.
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THURSDAY, Aug. 19 (HealthDayNews) -- Preliminary research suggests that benzene emissions from gas stations and auto repair shops may quadruple the risk of leukemia in children.
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NEW YORK  - The results of a study published in the International Journal of Cancer indicate there is an association between dietary calcium and the risk of prostate cancer.
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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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Minneapolis (WCCO) Did you know this? Lung cancer is the deadliest of all cancers -- killing more people than breast, prostate and colon cancer combined.
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20 November 2004 -- A new study says more than 800 people in northern Sweden may have cancer as a result of the fallout over the region from the Chornobyl nuclear accident in 1986.
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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.
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THURSDAY, Sept. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Living next to heavy industry may boost lung cancer risk, suggests new research.
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Stanford researcher finds first link between rising levels of carbon dioxide and increased human mortality, a finding that could bolster efforts by California and 15 other states to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles.
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TREATING prostate cancer with a combination of radiation and hormone therapy could cut the death rate from the disease by half.
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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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Isotopes of lead and polonium could help scientists to form more accurate estimates of when people have died.
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Smoking greatly reduces the chances of survival for people with head and neck cancer, says new research in the Oct. 1 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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TUESDAY, June 12 (HealthDay News) -- Decades after residents of a region in northern Chile were exposed to high levels of arsenic in their drinking water, they still suffer from high lung and bladder cancer death rates, concludes a study by U.S. and Chilean researchers.
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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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Genes play a key role in the development of lung cancer, boosting risk up to 3.5-fold among family members, according to a study of the Icelandic population in the Dec. 22 Journal of the American Medical Association.
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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.