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Virus passed during oral sex tops tobacco as throat cancer cause
Source: www.npr.org Author: Peggy Girshman If you’re keeping score, here’s even more evidence that HPV causes oral, head and neck cancers and that vaccines may be able to prevent it. Researchers studying the human papilloma virus say that in the United States HPV causes 64 percent of oropharynxl cancers. In the rest of the world, [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...Patterns of alcohol and tobacco use affect head and neck cancer risk
Saturday, November 7, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Analysis of cellphone studies finds tumor risk
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Periodontitis associated with fourfold increased risk for squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Career choice determines cancer risk, study finds
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Guidelines needed for optimal vitamin D supplementation in cancer patients
Friday, April 17, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Study links drinking hot tea to throat cancer
Sunday, April 5, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...More evidence links alcohol, cancer in women
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Source: apnews.myway.com Author: staff A study of nearly 1.3 million British women offers yet more evidence that moderate alcohol consumption increases the risk of a handful of cancers. British researchers surveyed middle-aged women at breast cancer screening clinics about their drinking habits, and tracked their health for seven years. A quarter of the women reported [...]
Continue reading...Row erupts over oral cancer paper authorship
Thursday, February 19, 2009
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 [...]
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- 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.
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- Girls-Only Vaccine Could Be Best Weapon Against HPV
- Many Head and Neck Cancer Survivors Face Eating Problems
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- Cisplatin aids survival of high-risk head and neck cancer
- Cancer Patients’ Health Benefits From Physical Activity
- HPV Vaccine Not Linked To Autoimmune Disorders, Study
- Connected nodes in throat cancer signal poor prognosis
- Queensland researchers make cancer treatment breakthrough
- The search for biomarkers of disease in spit
- Jaw Necrosis Common after Radiation for Oral Cancer
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