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People who use artificial sweeteners face little or no unusual risk of bladder cancer, a School of Public Health (SPH) study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine concludes...
Researchers at the SPH compared the use of saccharin and cyclamates by bladder cancer patients to that of a random selection of similar healthy people...
...subject has been controversial since 1977, when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed a ban on saccharin due to the discovery that large doses of saccharin cause bladder cancer in rats. Congress postponed the ban pending the outcome of further studies, but the FDA requires diet-drink bottlers to label their soda with warnings of the possible risk...
...Bladder cancer is relatively rare in the United States, this year expected to account for 5 per cent of the cancer in men and 3 per cent in women. The lifetime chance of developing bladder cancer...
...short operation, usually about an hour and a half. Through an incision in the abdomen or the scrotum, two expandable balloon-like cylinders are slipped into the corpora cavernosa. The cylinders are connected by tubing to a small spherical reservoir filled with fluid (which is placed near the bladder under the muscles of the abdominal wall) and to a pump (inserted into the scrotum). To achieve erection, a man squeezes the pump several times, forcing fluid into the cylinders and distending the penis. The process is reversed by pressing a release valve on the pump...