Topic: Oceania
Cancer could claim 13.3 million lives a year by 2030, the World Health Organisation's cancer research agency said Tuesday, almost double the 7.6 million deaths from the illness in 2008. A new calculation tool by the International Agency for Research on Cancer ...
Researchers said Tuesday that papaya leaf extract and its tea have dramatic cancer-fighting properties against a broad range of tumors, backing a belief held in a number of folk traditions. University of Florida researcher Nam Dang and colleagues in Japan, in a ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Leukemia patients who have blood stem cell transplants survive just as long on average as those who undergo the more invasive procedure of having a bone marrow transplant, scientists said on Monday. But patients with acute forms the blood ...
Australian health officials have devised a novel way to warn beachgoers of the dangers of the sun -- play a jingle to remind them to apply sunscreen. As Australians embark on what promises to be another extremely hot summer, the Cancer Council ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New cancer treatments costing thousands of dollars, and not covered by health insurance, may be out of reach for many patients, but a new survey shows most would still want to know about them. In Australia, the ...
Study says changes in cigarettes over the years may have made smoking riskier to the lungsIt may be riskier on the lungs to smoke cigarettes today than it was a few decades ago — at least in the U.S., says new research ...
A deceased Australian woman has won nearly half a million dollars in compensation based on her claim that 20 years of washing asbestos-laden clothes gave her cancer. The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia announced Monday that a New South Wales state tribunal ...
Science Supports Curcumin and Turmeric As Anti Aging Supplement Ingredients By Valerie Rosenbaum If you were looking for curcumin and turmeric evidence in the area of cancer prevention or treatment, you would find nearly 1000 separate studies in a single database. Here's ...
Cancer all-clear didn't persuade Direct Line to insure my trip In March I renewed my annual travel insurance policy with Direct Line. In May, I went for a routine mammogram, which showed I had microcalcification, which can mean the breast cells are ...
Cancer survival rates in the UK lag behind much of the rest of the world, according to the first-ever global study, published today, which puts the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan and France at the top of the league. The study, led ...
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