"Chemicals in tobacco smoke are a lethal cocktail; there.
are six hundred poisons in every cigarette," quoted the CBC.
news. According to information recently released by the.
British government, cigarettes contain: paint stripper,.
toilet cleaner, lighter fuel, a chemical in moth balls, a.
poison in gas chambers, a rocket fuel, and many other.
deadly poisons. As a result of these carcinogens in.
cigarettes, lung cancer remains the leading cause of death.
for both genders.
Smoking is responsible for about one-third of potential.
years of life lost due to cancer. Almost one-third of the.
cancer deaths in men and almost one-quarter in women are.
due to lung cancer alone (www.canadian-health-network.ca).
In addition, heavy smokers face a twenty percent higher.
risk of premature death compared with non-smokers.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health). A study was done in.
Finland, which covered more than one thousand men. The men.
were all aged at least forty when the program was launched.
The death rate among the continuous smokers during a.
period of twenty years was one-fifth higher than the people.
who never smoked (http://cbc.ca). It is obvious that with.
such a high risk of death rate in smokers, that the.
premature death was clearly linked to lung function.
The BBC news reported that the female sex hormone estrogen.
may be to blame for putting women at greater risk of lung.
cancer. Dr. Siegfried from the University of Pittsburgh,.
found that out of people who smoke the same amount, women.
may be up to twice as likely to develop lung cancer as men.
For this reason, she thinks that the effects of tobacco on.
women have a lot to do with their higher levels of.
estrogen. Two studies were done, one women who underwent.
menopause late in life, and another who had short menstrual.
cycles. It was found that they had a greater risk of lung.
cancer. In both cases their estrogen levels were higher.
than average. Dr. Stiegfried believes that the amount of.
sex hormones may influence the effects of the carcinogens.
People develop cancer because of damaged DNA. Cancer is always traced back to DNA. ... Different kinds of cancer are very different, and all cancers are treated in different ways. ... Rates of cancer differ in different ethnic groups. ... Skin cancer, breast cancer, and prostate cancer come from other things, mostly age, skin cancer from spending too much time in the sun. ...
Warning about children and Cancer " Warning about children and cancer" came from the Associated Press. ... It explained that years ago children with cancer had very little chance of being cured however, as time moved children of all ages had survived childhood cancer. ... The article also highlighted key recommendations to help fight cancer. Some of which were: Developing guidelines for follow-up care of childhood cancer survivors. ... Catching the cancer from a child's age beats the chances of its growth....
WHAT IS PROSTATE CANCER? ... Most prostate cancers grow very slowly. ... Prostate cancer is the most common cancer, excluding skin cancers, in American men. ... Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in men in the United States, exceeded only by lung cancer. ... Prostate cancer accounts for about 11% of male cancer-related deaths. ...
Cancer Facts Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States of America. Cancer is a disease that is very serious and fatal, but do we really know what cancer is and what causes cancer? ... Lung cancer and breast cancer are very different diseases. ... This is why people with different types of cancer need the treatment that aims their kind of cancer. ... Who is at risk of developing cancer? ...
What Is Lung Cancer? Most cancers are named after the part of the body where the cancer first starts. ... Types of Lung Cancer There are two major types of lung cancer. ... Small cell lung cancer accounts for about 20% of all lung cancers. ... Non-small cell lung cancer is the most common type of lung cancer, accounting for almost 80% of lung cancers. ...
Mammogram is one form of screening and testing a patient for breast cancer. ... Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is one of the most common tests for cancer. It uses computers and radio waves to detect cancer. ... There are a couple ways of detecting cancer on your self. ... I feel that cancer is affecting the whole world around us. ...
Cancer I have never had to experience what it would be like to have cancer. ... In 1991 my mother was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. ... This is called Thyroid Hormonal Therapy, one of the most common forms of treatment for thyroid cancer after surgery (Cancer 2). ... This is a common cause to a lot of cases of thyroid cancer, since I have known 3 people that each associate having thyroid cancer to radiation exposure. ... Cancer is definitely something to avoid at all costs, since the diagnoses of cancer does not only affect you, it also affects everyone that cares about you. ...
Cancer Kills Cancer has been around for longer than 3,000 B.C and there is still no cure for it. ... One in eight deaths are due from cancer. ... Now some facts about animals with cancer. Humans and animals have the same rate of receiving cancer, half of dogs over ten are diagnosed with cancer, along with one in four dogs will die from the disease known as cancer. ... Hopefully, everyone can "beat" cancer and death rates from cancer will go down every year not go up every year. ...
Nixon declared the "War on Cancer." ... While scientists' understanding of the biology of cancer has greatly expanded, cancer incidence and mortality rates of the majority of the cancers have continued to climb. ... But these are rare cancers. ... (Advances in Cancer Research) Death rates for some of the more common cancers, like stomach cancer, lung cancer in white, middle-aged men and colorectal cancer, have declined. ... Nixon, you can cure cancer." ...
