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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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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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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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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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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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 said today as it published an atlas mapping the scale of the global
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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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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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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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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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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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_U.S. deaths as of Jan. 31, 2007: 3,080.
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There is an alarming ignorance about cancer and how to reduce the risk of  the disease, a survey suggests.
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MONDAY, Sept. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Global experts on child health are meeting in New York City on Monday to discuss an ongoing tragedy: the fact that 10.5 million children under the age of five die each year.
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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 U.S. government study suggested on  Thursday.
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Radon gas is responsible for a significant number of lung cancer deaths, research has found.
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DISTANT relatives of cancer victims have a higher than average chance of suffering the disease themselves, researchers say. Scientists looked at the family tree of about 32,000 patients