Word: leukemias
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...know hair dye seeps through the scalp into the blood, which could cause blood cancers--leukemia or lymphomass," said Dr. Francine Grodstein, co-author of the study and a teaching fellow in epidemiology at the School of Public Health...
Such transplants are used for blood diseases such as leukemia and as treatment for solid tumors--and are, Vild said, life-saving...
...settlement from the Energy Department, signaling that the government might yield in future cases at 16 other plants around the country. About 4,000 workers at the Fernald nuclear weapons plant north of Cincinnati filed a class action suit in 1990, alleging that many of them contracted cancer or leukemia because of exposure to radioactive material between 1952 and 1985.ANOTHER TRADE CENTER BOMBER? Just when the mystery behind the World Trade Center bombing seemed wrapped up, Canadian authorities detained another man wanted for FBI questioning. Charles Lee Knox, a.k.a. Mohammad Abbas, was arrested Friday in Ottawa. The Feds want...
...often, however, a few cells manage to survive the onslaught and germinate, sometimes years later, into tumors that are impervious to treatment. The ability of the cancer cell to outmaneuver its attackers has long been reflected in mortality statistics. Despite gains made against cancers such as childhood leukemia and Hodgkin's lymphoma, the overall death rate remains dismally high. This year more than half a million Americans will succumb to cancer, making it the nation's second leading killer after cardiovascular disease...
...year study of Canadian utility workers found a slightly elevated risk of leukemia among employees who had the greatest exposure to magnetic fields. One of the most comprehensive studies to explore a possible link between electric power lines and cancer, the investigation did not uncover a tie to brain tumors...