Tobacco and poverty drive cancer in developing world
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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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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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Women who develop breast cancer are  no more likely to have aggressive or advanced tumors if they  are cigarette smokers than if they do not smoke, researchers  said on Sunday.
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Secondhand smoke can cause cancer. It&#39;s what the surgeon general says. So too the Environmental Protection Agency. And the World Health Organization.
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NEW YORK  - People who use chewing tobacco expose themselves to even higher levels of a particular cancer-causing compound than tobacco smokers do, according to a new study.
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Every year, 500,000 new cases of cervical cancer are reported, and 230,000 women die of disease. Nearly 80 percent of these cases occur in underdeveloped and poverty-stricken countries.
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US researchers have found that a history of smoking can affect survival in patients with cancer of the head and neck. Researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center said patients who had
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Obesity is on its way to being deadlier than smoking as a cause of cancer, a leading researcher said Friday. Being obese is currently associated with about 14 percent of cancer deaths in men and 20 percent in women, compared with about 30 percent each for smoking, Dr. Walter C. Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health, told the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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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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Despite the scary statistics about cancer and death, and the disgusting realities of yellow teeth and bad breath, there are still 46 million people in the United States who smoke.
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WASHINGTON - Second hand smoke can cause cancer. Itâs what the surgeon general says, so too the Environmental Protection Agency and the World Health Organization.
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One billion people will die of tobacco-related diseases this century unless governments in rich and poor countries alike get serious about preventing smoking, top World Health Organization (WHO) experts said on Monday.
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Tobacco-related diseases including cancers and heart disease will kill 6.4 million people a year by 2015, 50 percent more than AIDS, a study said on Tuesday.
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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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India is in the grips of a smoking epidemic that is likely to cause nearly a million deaths a year by 2010, more than half of them among poor and illiterate people, according to a study released Thursday.
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Lack of sunlight may increase the risk of developing lung cancer, research suggests.
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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.