Tanning Industry Under Fire
The Bottom Line Sun, 02 May 2010 10:01 AM PDT
The 5 billion dollar indoor tanning industry has come under criticism in recent years for its link to cancer. In late January, U.S. Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-New York) and Charlie Dent (R-Pennsylvania) introduced the Tanning Bed Cancer Control Act. The bill would allow federal regulators to set limits on the usage of beds as well as the amount of ultraviolet radiation emitted by tanning ... |
Older Women with Diabetes Face Higher Risk for Colon Cancer
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance Sun, 02 May 2010 10:00 AM PDT
NEW ORLEANS----A research team led by Mayo Clinic physicians has found that older women with diabetes face a more than doubled risk for some types of colorectal cancer. The findings are being presented at Digestive Disease Week 2010, the annual meeting of the American Gastroenterological Association. |
Gene's role in breast-tumor growth unlocked
New Kerala Sun, 02 May 2010 09:55 AM PDT
Washington, May 2 : A new research helps explain why breast-milk cells lose their structure, causing them to clump up in strange ways and sometimes become cancer tumors. |
New studies examine adverse outcomes associated with obesity and more applicable measures of obesity
EurekAlert! Sun, 02 May 2010 09:33 AM PDT
( Digestive Disease Week ) Pay-for-performance reimbursement models may create unintended financial incentives for doctors to discriminate against obese patients, measuring a patient's waist circumference may be more effective in predicting surgical outcomes than the more traditional body mass index measure, and childhood obesity doubles the risk of developing colon cancer, according to data ... |
Weekend Events
Waxahachie Daily Light Sun, 02 May 2010 09:24 AM PDT
Relay For Life Ennis will kick-off at 6 p.m. Friday, April 30, continuing through the night to 6 a.m. Saturday, May 1, at the Texas Motorplex. This is an annual fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. |
Relay for Life offers hope, empathy
The Wahpeton Daily News Sun, 02 May 2010 09:23 AM PDT
After 11 years of participating in Relay for Life, Wahpeton resident Jodie Waclaw speaks from personal experience when she says it gives cancer patients hope. |
The Star Architects And Cancer
Arts Journal Sun, 02 May 2010 08:58 AM PDT
"The Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres put the seriousness of architecture to the test. They are notable for two things: offering ways of helping cancer sufferers beyond medical treatment, and doing so in places designed by leading contemporary architects. |
Breast Cancer Survivors May Face Second Cancers if they Smoke
Newswise Sun, 02 May 2010 08:48 AM PDT
Women who survive early-stage breast cancer and smoke have an increased chance of developing a new second cancer in their other breast or elsewhere. Investigators from New Jersey's only NCI-Comprehensive Cancer Center say the findings, being presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Radium Society, show that women can exercise some control over a known risk factor for developing a new ... |
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