Study: Dogs Don’t Get Bladder Cancer Drinking Tap Water
Feeding Fido bottled water? A recent study shows drinking chemically-treated tap water doesn’t increase a dog’s risk of developing bladder cancer.
click here to read full article...World No Tobacco Day 2008
The World Health Organization estimates tobacco use kills 1 adult every 6 seconds. Saturday’s World No Tobacco Day hopes to reverse that deadly trend.
click here to read full article...Report Explores How Social Media is Changing Cancer Care
Web tools and social networking sites are changing how cancer patients approach treatment — a new report analyzes the trend that’s transforming medicine.
click here to read full article...UK Engineer Applies Feedback Control to Cancer and VALI
Mathematical theories and hefty grants are helping a British engineer create better models of cancer and hospital ventilators. Feedback control is the key.
click here to read full article...Yale and Ugandan Docs Discuss Cancer, Condoms and HIV on Connecticut Radio
Physicians from Uganda and Connecticut discuss abstinence, condoms, cancer, HIV, and snow (plus a few other interesting topics) on Yale Cancer Center Answers.
click here to read full article...Canada Makes Federal Prisons Smoke Free
Canadian officials begin a new smoking ban in federal prisons. Some think it’s the perfect chance to quit — others worry withdrawal will lead to violence.
click here to read full article...Cancer Patients May Not Get Treatment During a Pandemic
Experts face the grim task of deciding who will get treatment during a pandemic or other health disaster — many with chronic illnesses will be left out.
click here to read full article...Mayo Clinic Oncologists Answer Cancer Questions Online
One of the top cancer treatment facilities in the world is offering you the opportunity to e-mail your questions about cancer to their oncology experts.
The Mayo Clinic web site has a feature called Ask a Cancer Specialist which allows anybody with internet access the chance to ask Mayo’s experienced specialists their tough cancer [...]
South Africans Celebrate Arrival of Second PET-CT Scanner
South African health officials are hoping the installation a new Positron Emission Tomography – Computed Tomography (PET-CT) scanner will help them reduce cancer deaths in their country.
While PET-CT imaging devices are commonly used to diagnose cancer in US hospitals, this is only the second one available to patients in South Africa’s public hospitals.
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Anal Cancer Survivor is Fertile Again After Ovarian Implants
German physicians have successfully used ovarian tissue implants to restore fertility to a 32-year-old cancer survivor who lost her ability to get pregnant after receiving treatments for anal cancer.
Knowing the tumor’s close proximity to reproductive organs increased the possibility of infertility, doctors at Erlangen University Hospital removed healthy ovarian tissue from the young woman [...]
