The U.S. government’s Institute of Medicine reported that asbestos, which is accepted as a cause of a number of respiratory ailments including lung cancer, may also be a source for laryngeal cancer. The larynx produces the sound of your voice. Each year in the United States, more than 10,000 people learn they have larynx cancer. [...]
Barbara McNair, 72, started out as a nightclub singer and moved into film and TV as more opportunities for black women opened up in the 1960′s. She eventually hosted her own show in 1969 called The Barbara McNair Show. Her best known film role came as Sidney Poitier’s wife in the classic crime drama They [...]
Mike Evans was the actor who played Lionel on All in the Family and The Jeffersons. He died of throat cancer on December 14Th, he was only 57. Evans also helped create and write for the sitcom Good Times. It was one of the first TV sitcoms that featured a primarily black cast. His last [...]
According to a new study, if you prefer having onions and garlic in your daily diet, you might have lower odds of certain types of cancers. After analyzing eight different studies from Switzerland and Italy, researchers found that adults who have the highest intake of onions or garlic in their diet had the lowest risk [...]
Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton will miss the beginning of the band’s upcoming tour as he recovers from throat cancer treatments. Hamilton, 55, has undergone a “seven-week course of radiation treatment for throat cancer,” the band’s publicist Marcee Rondan said Thursday. He is at home with his family, she said, but she had no further information [...]
Rock singer Kiyoshiro Imawano, 55, whose real name is Kiyoshi Kurihara, has been hospitalized after being diagnosed as having throat cancer, his spokesman announced Thursday. According to the spokesman, Imawano felt discomfort in his throat in June, and the result of a medical test showed he had throat cancer. Commenting on his official Web site [...]