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When the Heart Stops Beating (HealthDay)
HealthDay - MONDAY, Jan. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Deanna Babcock's heart stopped
beating on July 20, 2007. Just like that.
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Smoking ban leads to major drop in heart attacks (AP)
AP - A smoking ban in one Colorado city led to a dramatic drop in heart attack hospitalizations within three years, a sign of just how serious a health threat secondhand smoke is, government researchers said Wednesday.
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Study points to way of stopping lung cancer spread (Reuters)
Reuters - Lung cancer cells produce a compound that helps the tumor spread to other parts of the body, a finding that could lead to a new way to prevent this dangerous development, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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Teens are influenced by health risks of smoking (Reuters)
Reuters - Teenagers who underestimate the risks of smoking -- or overestimate the social value -- are substantially more likely than their peers to take up the habit, a new study suggests.
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Gene Mutation Tied to Inherited Fatal Lung Disease (HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Dec. 30 (HealthDay News) -- A mutation in a gene
previously found to help protect the lungs against toxins may also be
linked to lung cancer and some inherited cases of a lethal lung disease
affecting older adults, a new study says.
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No cancer risk reductions seen with antioxidants (Reuters)
Reuters - In the large Women's Antioxidant Cardiovascular Study, participants who took beta carotene, vitamin C, vitamin E, or a combination of supplements had no significant reductions in their risk of cancer.
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Many studies needed to tie genes to cancer: study (Reuters)
Reuters - Many genes linked to various cancers do not appear to raise the risk of getting cancer after all, according to an analysis of hundreds of studies published on Tuesday.
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Antioxidants fail again in cancer prevention study (Reuters)
Reuters - Beta carotene, vitamin C and vitamin E supplements taken for years failed to lower overall cancer risk in the latest study to cast doubt on the possibility that such dietary supplements can prevent cancer.
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Food Phosphates Might Spur Lung Cancer (HealthDay)
HealthDay - MONDAY, Dec. 29 (HealthDay News) -- A diet rich in the inorganic
phosphates found in many natural and processed foods accelerated the
growth of lung cancers in rats, South Korean researchers report.
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Processed food may fuel lung tumors: Korean study (Reuters)
Reuters - Common food additives known as phosphates may help lung cancer tumors grow faster, at least in mice, South Korean researchers reported on Monday.
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Lung Cancer: Still the Biggest Cancer Killer, by Far (HealthDay)
HealthDay - SATURDAY, Dec. 27 (HealthDay News) -- It's the leading cause of
cancer death in the United States, killing more people each year than
breast, prostate, colon, liver, kidney and melanoma cancers combined.
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Smoking ups risk of common heart rhythm problem (Reuters)
Reuters - Offering yet another reason to never start smoking, a new study finds that both current and former smokers run an elevated risk of the heart rhythm disorder atrial fibrillation.
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Drug shields mice from chronic lung disease: study (Reuters)
Reuters - An experimental drug protected mice exposed to tobacco smoke from developing chronic lung disease, raising hope for a treatment in humans, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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Cancer Medicine Advances on Many Fronts (HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Dec. 23 (HealthDay News) -- The war against cancer
gathered steam in 2008, as new drugs tackled the toughest cancers with
some success, and advances were made in both disease prevention and risk
factor identification.
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Gene Variant Tied to Smokers' Risk of Lung Cancer (HealthDay)
HealthDay - MONDAY, Dec. 22 (HealthDay News) -- People may face an increased
risk of lung cancer if they have a gene variant that metabolizes the most
potent of cigarette smoke carcinogens, a new study says.
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Experts identify gene variants linked to lung cancer (Reuters)
Reuters - Researchers in China and the United States have identified mutations of two genes which appear to make ethnic Chinese more susceptible to lung cancer, they wrote in the journal Cancer.
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Lung cancer deadliest tumor for Australia women (Reuters)
Reuters - Lung cancer has overtaken breast cancer as the biggest killer of Australian women with cancer, as females who started smoking in the 1970s and 1980s as they gained equal rights with men are diagnosed with the deadly disease.
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Fatal attraction: How leukemia seduces blood cells (Reuters)
Reuters - Leukemia cells use powerful chemical signals to lure healthy blood-forming stem cells into their cancerous lairs, where they lose their power to make healthy blood cells, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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Low Levels of 2 Enzymes in Ovarian Cancer Cells Shortened Survival (HealthDay)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Dec. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Women with ovarian cancer
who had low levels of either of two enzymes associated with their tumors
tended to die much sooner than women who had higher levels of one of the
two enzymes, new research shows.
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Colonoscopy not as effective as thought at finding cancers: study (AFP)
AFP - A colonoscopy, the procedure in which a doctor looks for dangerous growths in the large intestine, may not be as great a protection from death from colorectal cancer as once thought, a study found Tuesday.
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