The latest cancer news and updates from around the world.
Yale researchers have identified factors that may contribute to widening cancer death disparities among counties across the United States. These factors, which include both socioeconomic and behavioral traits, may provide public health experts with specific targets for potentially reducing cancer...
When it comes to cancer survival, the United States is sharply divided by race. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the cancer death rate for African-Americans is 25 percent higher than whites, and Hispanics and Latinos are more likely to be diagnosed with cancer at a lat...
"CDC researchers said the risk of 13 cancers is increased by being overweight or obese, including cancer of the thyroid, gallbladder, liver, kidney, colon and pancreas. Being overweight also increases the risk of a blood cancer called myeloma, a spinal cancer called meningioma, a type of esophage...
Just in time for the holidays, the American Society of Clinical Oncology made an announcement calling attention to the ties between alcohol consumption and cancer. The announcement is a first for the organization who points out the rising number of evidence suggesting a strong link between alcoho...
Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of disease and death in India. About 63,000 new lung cancer cases are detected and about 52,000 people die of lung cancer every year in the country. As oncologists say, every cancer is different. Though lung cancer is often brought on by smoking tobacco th...
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR The incidence of mouth and throat cancers caused by the human papilloma virus in men has now surpassed the incidence of HPV-related cervical cancers in women, researchers report. The study, in the Annals of Internal Medicine, found that 11 million men and 3.2 million wom...
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Soil contamination occurs in most countries with a lot of farmland, heavy industry and mining. In Ukraine, for example, which has all three, about 8% of the land is contaminated. A chemical dump in upstate New York called Love Canal resulted in the poisoning of many residents and the creation...
Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, pictured here during a TED presentation Thursday in Rochester, MN, is chair of Neurologic Surgery at the Mayo Clinic complex in Jacksonville, Fl. His journey from undocumented migrant worker to Harvard graduate and brain surgeon is being made into a movie. (Cour...