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People should be warned that cancer is linked to obesity and alcohol, rather than urged to eat more fruit and vegetables to protect against the disease.
Around one in 100 deaths worldwide each year is due to passive smoking, which causes more than 600,000 people to die each year worldwide. Some 165 000 of these deaths are among children. These are the conclusions of an article published in an upcoming edition of The Lancet, written by Dr Annette Prüss-Ustün, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland, and colleagues. The study is the first to assess the global impact of second-hand smoke.
The risk of radiation-induced breast cancer from mammography screening is slight in comparison to the benefit of expected lives saved, according to a new study appearing online and in the January issue of the journal Radiology.
Women who have had the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine could need only two HPV screening tests for the rest of their lives according to new calculations being presented at the NCRI Cancer Conference in Liverpool.
The first results from the EPIC study provide valuable insights into the influence of food groups and nutrients in gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer and prostate cancer, reports the European Journal of Cancer.
Leading a healthy lifestyle can help women reduce their risk of breast cancer even if they have a family history of the disease, it has been claimed.
Even low doses of aspirin may help to prevent bowel cancer, a new study from the University of Edinburgh suggests.
Although overall mortality from cancer is decreasing in the European Union, its incidence increased by almost 20%, from 2.1 million new cases in 2002 to 2.5 million in 2008, says a special issue of the European Journal of Cancer (the official journal of ECCO – the European CanCer Organisation) on cancer prevention, published today.
The eight unexplained symptoms most closely linked to cancer have been highlighted by researchers.
A new study suggests that tobacco companies may be using online video portals, such as YouTube, to get around advertising restrictions and market their products to young people.
Three quarters of British adults support the removal of shop displays of tobacco (73 per cent) and a complete ban on cigarette vending machines (77 per cent) according to a new survey commissioned by Cancer Research UK this weekend.
The cervical cancer vaccine could prevent even more cases of the disease in England than previously thought, UK scientists have found.
A new study suggests that the test used in the Italian national bowel cancer screening programme may be less likely to spot cancerous changes in summer than it is in winter.
Cigarettes in Australia will soon have to be sold in plain packaging to prevent consumers – and particularly children – from being influenced by tobacco advertising.
Young people who regularly use sunbeds often display signs of addiction to using them, a US study has found.
For every woman overdiagnosed by breast screening, two deaths will be prevented, according to a study published today (Wednesday).
More cases of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection - the major cause of cervical cancer - could be detected if home-testing kits were given to women who cannot attend conventional cervical screening, a Dutch study has found.
People with higher levels of vitamin D appear to be significantly less likely to develop bowel cancer, a new European study has found.
