Word: cancer
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...clothing. Residue from Agent Orange, which was sprayed to deny enemy troops jungle cover, remains so toxic that this patch of land is considered one of the most contaminated pieces of real estate in the country. A recent study indicates that even three decades after the war ended, the cancer-causing dioxins are at levels 300 to 400 times higher than what is deemed to be safe...
Another concern is that the tax would open up a Pandora's box that would probably pit doctors against bureaucrats over what is considered cosmetic and what is reconstructive. "For example, I do a lot of breast reconstruction, so when I'm treating a cancer patient's normal breast and putting in a lift to match the reconstructed breast, is that elective or is that reconstructive?" says Saltz. "Now, who's going to make that decision? Is it going to be a bureaucrat or a tax person that's going to tell me or my patient that they have...
...contrast, those who participated in vigorous activities experienced a 12 percent decreased risk of mortality specifically due to prostate cancer. Kenfield said she plans to do more research to determine the cause of the results, focusing on insulin pathways and insulin growth factors...
Though the causality of the study’s results has yet to be determined, Kenfield said that the positive health benefits attributed to exercise make it a sensible habit for men with prostate cancer to adopt...
Wilson and Kenfield presented their findings last Monday in Houston at the American Association for Cancer Research’s “Frontiers in Cancer Prevention” Research Conference...