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...Colon cancer. A large study released in April found that estrogen users had a 29% lower risk of dying from colon cancer than nonusers. For those on estrogen more than 10 years, the risk was 55% lower...
...estrogen. "The problem with this," explains Dr. Susan Love, "is that women who take hormones go to doctors more, eat well, exercise and are in better health generally than women who don't take hormones." Thus it is hard to tell whether their lower rates of heart disease or colon cancer or fractures reflect HRT or these other healthy habits...
HOSPITALIZED. BILLY GRAHAM, 76, silver-maned Christian evangelist; for flu symptoms and a bleeding colon, after slumping to the podium in mid-sermon; in Toronto...
...Heavier drinking, more than two to three drinks a day, increases the risk of death from other causes, such as breast and colon cancer, stroke, cirrhosis, accidents and suicide for women of all ages," Meir Stampfer, associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, said in an interview with the Harvard Gazette...
Good news for everyone who can't function without their morning latte arrives in a Swedish medical study that says drinking six or more cups of coffee daily may reduce your risk of colon cancer. The study also said drinking two cups of tea a day provides the same benefit...