Sunday, April 1, 2012

Health News: [cancer]


A power plant, cancer and a small town’s fears
CBS 6 Richmond Sun, 01 Apr 2012 09:58 AM PDT
"My hair is 68 parts per million uranium," said one woman. "And then my husband started breaking out in disfiguring hives. His kidneys started acting really bizarre."

Swift's fan date cancelled
Calgary Sun Sun, 01 Apr 2012 09:58 AM PDT
Taylor Swift will have to attend Sunday night's Academy of Country Music Awards solo after her date with a teenage cancer suffered was cancelled.

Study: Long use of any hormones poses cancer risk
Erie Times-News Sun, 01 Apr 2012 09:58 AM PDT
New research suggests that long-term use of any type of hormones to ease menopause symptoms can raise a women's risk of breast cancer. It is already known that taking pills that combine estrogen and progestin pills, the most common type of hormone therapy, can increase breast cancer risk.

Hormone use for menopause raises cancer risk: study
CTV.ca Sun, 01 Apr 2012 09:57 AM PDT
New research suggests that long-term use of any type of hormones to ease menopause symptoms can raise a woman's risk of breast cancer.

Common diabetes drug 'may help prevent primary liver cancer'
New Kerala Sun, 01 Apr 2012 09:55 AM PDT
Washington, Apr 1 : Metformin, a drug that is widely used to treat Type II diabetes, may help to prevent primary liver cancer, a new study has claimed.

Long use of hormones a cancer risk: study
Brisbane Times Sun, 01 Apr 2012 09:53 AM PDT
Long-term use of any type of hormones to ease menopause symptoms can raise the risk of breast cancer, a study has found.

Researchers going global to improve Arab health
Detroit News Sun, 01 Apr 2012 09:36 AM PDT
Detroit— When Adnan Hammad started working on programs to improve the health of Arab Americans in the mid-1990s, he lacked important information such as the rates of cancer, diabetes within that community, or the prevalence of post-traumatic stress among refugees.

Blacks have trouble clearing HPV, study finds; may help explain cervical cancer rate disparity
The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News Sun, 01 Apr 2012 09:33 AM PDT
CHICAGO - Provocative new research might help explain why black women are so much more likely than whites to develop and die from cervical cancer: They seem to have more trouble clearing HPV, the virus that causes the disease.

Blacks have trouble clearing cervical cancer virus
Forest City Summit Sun, 01 Apr 2012 09:31 AM PDT
Provocative new research might help explain why black women are so much more likely than whites to develop and die from cervical cancer: They seem to have more trouble clearing HPV, the virus that cau

Kris Humphries -- Has a Date with a 16-Year-Old Girl
TMZ Sun, 01 Apr 2012 09:29 AM PDT
Being with Kris Humprhies may not be Kim Kardashian's wish anymore, but it is for a 16-year-old cancer patient in upstate NY ... and the NBA star is making it come true, TMZ has learned.Friends of Kaely Kwitek started a Twitter account called…




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