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Cancer Drug That Shrinks All Tumors?
"Researchers are one step closer to uncovering a cancer treatment that could be applicable across the board in killing every kind of cancer tumor ( Read more... ) -
Mobile phones can cause cancer
In February, the National Institutes of Health published a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association that indicated that cell phone radiation boosts brain activity ( Read more... ) -
Unsafe at Any Dose
As we know from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it takes years to get cancer. Leukemia takes only 5 to 10 years to emerge, but solid cancers take 15 to 60. Furthermore, most radiation-induced mutations are recessive; it can take many generations for two recessive genes to combine to form a child with a particular disease, like my specialty, cystic fibrosis ( Read more... ) -
Common flower could revolutionise treatment of leukemia
"An extract from the white flower commonly known as Baby's Breath can boost the efficiency of anti-cancer drugs by a million times, according to experts ( Read more... ) -
17 Years Later, Stage 4 Survivor
"There’s a small subcategory of people with Stage 4 breast cancer, it turned out, who live for years and years. “Twenty. Thirty,” said my doctor, George Raptis. This group constitutes about 2 percent of all cases. Doctors can’t predict who will fall into this category." disease, medicine, cancer, survivorsWorkplace Chemicals May Boost Breast Cancer Risk
"Women exposed to acrylic fibers at work had a seven-fold increased risk of breast cancer, while the risk was almost double among those exposed to nylon fibers. Exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (found in petroleum products) before age 36 tripled the risk of breast cancer, the study authors reported ( Read more... )