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Uninsured have higher mortality from head and neck cancer than insured

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Source: professional.cancerconsultants.com Author: staff Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh have reported that patients with “Medicaid/uninsured and Medicare disability were at increased risk of death after the diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN) when compared with patients with private insurance.” The details of this study were published online on November 20, 2009 [...]

Patterns of alcohol and tobacco use affect head and neck cancer risk

Saturday, November 7, 2009

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Source: www.rtmagazine.com Author: staff Assuming that total exposure is the same, it is worse to smoke lightly for many years than to smoke heavily for a few years when it comes to the risk of head and neck cancer, new research shows. With alcohol use, however, the opposite is true. The results, which were published in the October [...]

Analysis of cellphone studies finds tumor risk

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

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Source: www.latimes.com Author: Shari Roan Scientists looking at 23 studies involving almost 38,000 people initially see no connection. But a closer look at the highest-quality studies tells another story. The answer to the question of whether cellphones increase the risk of brain, head and neck tumors is truly a matter of whom you ask. An analysis published Tuesday of [...]

Periodontitis associated with fourfold increased risk for squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

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Source: www.hemonctoday.com Author: staff Results of a study involving 473 participants showed that periodontitis was linked with the development of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. Researchers conducted a hospital-based case-control study between June 1999 and November 2005. The study involved 266 patients with head and neck cancer treated at the Roswell Park Cancer Center’s department [...]

Career choice determines cancer risk, study finds

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

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Source: www.yle.fi Author: staff A new study shows that cancer risk could depend on a person’s job description. A recently released Nordic study shows how different careers contribute to different forms and incident rates of cancer. Lifestyle factors that are linked to specific careers are often a major influence on who gets cancer and who does not. [...]

Guidelines needed for optimal vitamin D supplementation in cancer patients

Friday, April 17, 2009

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Source: www.medscape.com Author: Roxanne Nelson A growing amount of research suggests that vitamin D may be beneficial to cancer patients. In addition, laboratory, ecologic, and epidemiologic studies have shown some evidence that higher levels of vitamin D might lower the risk for colon, breast, endometrial, and prostate cancers. But although the “evidence is intriguing,” an editorial published online [...]

Study links drinking hot tea to throat cancer

Sunday, April 5, 2009

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Source: www.scoop.co.nz Author: Megan Anderson Hot tea drinkers are being warned to slow down and cool down, after a recent study has linked drinking hot liquids to an increased risk of throat cancer. Oesophageal cancers kill more than 500,000 people per year. The Iranian study, published in the British Medical Journal, found that drinkers of hot tea (65-69 [...]

Row erupts over oral cancer paper authorship

Thursday, February 19, 2009

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Source: www.theaustralian.news.com.au Author: Guy Healy An international expert on oral cancer withdrew from joint authorship of a paper that drew a link between the disease and the Listerine mouthwash made by his university laboratory’s corporate sponsors, it has been claimed. The research paper’s co-authors say Newell Johnson, whose Griffith University laboratory was funded by pharmaceutical firm Pfizer, Listerine’s [...]

Coffee may protect against oral cancers

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

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Source: www.reuters.com Author: Megan Rauscher New research indicates that drinking coffee lowers the risk of developing cancer of the oral cavity or throat, at least in the general population of Japan. The consumption of coffee in Japan is relatively high, as is the rate of cancer of the esophagus in men. To look into any protective effect of [...]

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Uninsured have higher mortality from head and neck cancer than insured

Patterns of alcohol and tobacco use affect head and neck cancer risk

Analysis of cellphone studies finds tumor risk

Periodontitis associated with fourfold increased risk for squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck

Career choice determines cancer risk, study finds

Guidelines needed for optimal vitamin D supplementation in cancer patients

Study links drinking hot tea to throat cancer

More evidence links alcohol, cancer in women

Row erupts over oral cancer paper authorship

Coffee may protect against oral cancers