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...study—which modeled the effects of varying amounts of smoking and solid-fuel use on COPD, lung cancer, and tuberculosis—predicted that 65 million people would die from COPD and 18 million from lung disease in this period. Eighty-two percent of COPD deaths and 75 percent of lung cancer deaths in the model can be attributed to the combined effects of smoking and pollution...
...study, published in the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet, found that complete gradual cessation of these risk factors by 2033 could save 26 million lives from COPD and over 6 million from lung cancer...
...million COPD and lung cancer deaths attributed to smoking and solid-fuel use, over 10 million would be unavoidable even if the risk factors had been eliminated in 2003, due to persisting effects of past exposure...
...currently studying the effects of MDMA, or ecstasy, on helping terminally-ill cancer patients with anxiety...
...team of researchers at Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital recently developed a therapy to suppress brain tumor growth by using a cancer-killing gene delivered via a virus vector to cells surrounding the tumor. Testing their treatment on mice, they said, yielded “spectacular” results...