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Although Most Smokers Want to Quit… Only a Fraction Actually Do
Source: The Wall Street Journal Author: Betsy McKay More than two-thirds of American smokers want to quit, but only a fraction actually do, underscoring a need for more services, messages, and access to medications to help them kick the habit, according to a new government report out today. Nearly 69% of adult smokers wanted to quit [...]
Continue reading...Survey: use of internet to find health information increases
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Source: www.medscape.com Author: staff More than half of Americans looked up health information on the Internet last year, U.S. government researchers reported on Tuesday. But only 5% used email to communicate with their doctors, the survey by the National Center for Health Statistics found. The survey included 7,192 adults aged 18 to 64 questioned between January [...]
Continue reading...Pretreatment health behaviors predict survival among patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Source: Journal of Clinical Oncology, 10.1200/JCO.2008.18.2188 Author: Sonia A. Duffy et al. Purpose: Our prior work has shown that the health behaviors of head and neck cancer patients are interrelated and are associated with quality of life; however, other than smoking, the relationship between health behaviors and survival is unclear. Patients and Methods: A prospective [...]
Continue reading...- Accuracy of Dentists in the Clinical Diagnosis of Oral Lesions
- New Evaluation for HPV16 Related Cancers Using "Pap-Test Equivalent"
- New Study Indicates Tobacco Industry Was Aware of Their Own Products Dangers
- Increase in oral cancers linked to HPV
- Systems Strategies To Support Cancer Screening in U.S. Primary Care Practice
- Study Finds- Fewer Dying from Throat & Mouth Cancer in the U.S.
- UI professors: HPV editorial misses the mark
- Girls-Only Vaccine Could Be Best Weapon Against HPV
- Many Head and Neck Cancer Survivors Face Eating Problems
- The Gardasil Problem: How The U.S. Lost Faith In A Promising Vaccine
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- Keith Hern – Battling throat cancer, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and NLP
- Vitamin B veggies cut risk of mouth cancer
- Oral sex may cause more oral cancer than smoking in men, researchers say
- Big Tobacco Spending More Than a Super PAC to Defeat Cancer Research
- Actor’s Diagnosis Puts Spotlight on Oral Cancer
- Actor Michael Douglas Partners With Oral Cancer Foundation For Early Detection PSA Campaign
- 2009 Federal Tobacco Tax Increase Cut Number of Youth Smokers by At Least 220,000 in First Two Months Alone, New Study Shows
- Radiotherapy May Be Enough for HPV-Positive Throat Cancer
- Stem cell sparing radiotherapy for head and neck cancer may avoid salivary gland damage
- 1 of 6 cancer deaths worldwide caused by preventable infections
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