Cancer expected to skyrocket in Asia
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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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Survivors from the gargantuan tsunami that swept across Asia will face a host of new threats in the coming days and weeks: viruses and bacteria in the water, diseases seeping from human remains, and the vulnerability to bugs and other predators that comes from having no shelter.
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Asian women who eat a diet rich in meat and puddings may be at higher risk of breast cancer, a study claims.
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A study of more than 1 million South Koreans suggests diabetes can raise the risk of developing and dying from several types of cancer, including digestive-tract tumors.
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BEIJING/SEOUL  - A baby boom is about to hit parts of Asia, as couples try to ensure their newborns get a happy, wealthy life by starting off in the Year of the Pig.
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International health officials are increasingly concerned that the elements giving rise to a long-feared international epidemic of influenza are falling into place in Asia, piece by piece.
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Even distant relatives of cancer victims have a higher than average chance of suffering the disease themselves, researchers said. A study based in Iceland, where scientists have access to unique family tree
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The world's leading cancer experts have begun laying the groundwork in Bangkok for the development of a regional training network to fight the growing cancer crisis in Asia.
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Diagnosed cases of cancer rose by 10 percent in Europe over two years, an increase attributable to the continent's ageing population, the effects of smoking and better screening for breast cancer, doctors reported.
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More than 10,000 people die across Asia in massive waves triggered by the largest earthquake in 40 years.
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Close relatives of cancer patients are often at substantially higher risk than the population at large of developing cancer themselves, a study of 32,000 cancer patients over nearly 50 years has revealed.
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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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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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Providing psychological services for millions in Asia will become critical in the coming weeks.
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MONDAY, Dec. 17 (HealthDay News)  -- Cancer continues to cut a deadly swath across the globe, with the American Cancer Society reporting 12 million new cases of malignancy diagnosed worldwide in 2007, with 7.6 million people dying from the disease.
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Rising skin cancer rates are more likely to affect wealthy people, Northern Ireland researchers find.
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In a study of prostate cancer  patients living in California, most Asian men with the disease  survived longer than their white counterparts. The exception  was men from South Asia; their survival was worse than that of  white men.