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Increased intake of vitamin C from the diet, but not from supplements may slash the risk of mouth cancer by 48 percent, says an epidemiological study. The study, published in the International Journal of Cancer, used data on supplement use and diet for 42,340 men in the Health Professional Follow-Up Study. During the course of [...]
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Boise State basketball player Coby Karl, son of Denver Nuggets coach George Karl, had surgery 13 months ago to remove his thyroid after he was diagnosed with papillary carcinoma, a form of treatable cancer. And while Karl received chemotherapy to kill off any lingering cancer cells, he must undergo cancer surgery once again. Karl, who [...]
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High-fat diet may increase breast cancer risk. According to a large study of middle-age women with a wide range of fat in their diet shows that eating a high-fat diet raises the risk of developing invasive breast cancer. This report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, stem from the National Institutes of Health-AARP [...]
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More research points to the medicinal effects of red wine. Researchers say the consumption of more than three glasses of red wine a week reduced the risk of colon cancer. Joseph C. Anderson, M.D, and his colleagues at SUNY Stony Brook, compared the drinking habits of 360 red and white wine drinkers with similar lifestyles [...]
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Doctors prescribing anemia drugs for patients with kidney disease and cancer were urged by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday to carefully dispense of these drugs due to an increased risk of death and other serious problems, such as blood clots, strokes, and heart attacks in patients with chronic kidney failure and rapid [...]
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He first played on professional football teams, the San Diego Chargers, the Houston Oilers, and the Kansas City Chiefs, and then found fame and fortune in professional wrestling, a sport that landed him in the World Wrestling Federation Hall of Fame. He is Ernie “Big Cat” Ladd. And on Saturday night, he died of cancer [...]
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Devastating blood born fungal infections that can be lethal for cancer, HIV/AIDS, and organ transplant patients may be treated more successfully, thanks to a new drug delivery method of Amphotericin B developed by researchers at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Because the oral form of the drug is easier to administer and cheaper [...]
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FRIDAY, March 2 (HealthDay News) — A component of green tea, combined with low doses of the cox-2 inhibitor painkiller Celebrex, may be able to slow prostate cancer growth, according to a U.S. study. Previous research found that, individually, both the green tea polyphenol epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), a known antioxidant, and cox-2 inhibitors helped fight prostate [...]
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Attorney General and Tsawwassen resident Wally Oppal has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, but he says the treatment shouldn’t keep him away from his work for long. Oppal said he is scheduled to have surgery March 20, and after the initial shock of the diagnosis he is confident about his recovery. “I play basketball, I [...]
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Yaisah Vargas Associated Press Mar. 2, 2007 08:52 AM Â SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A U.S. federal grand jury indicted seven people in a case where terminally ill cancer patients were allegedly injected with a bogus cure made from the patients’ own blood, the U.S. attorney’s office in San Juan announced Thursday. Four Puerto [...]
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