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A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition
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cancer A wide variety of diseases characterized by uncontrolled growth of tissue. Dietary factors may be involved in the initiation of some forms of cancer, and a high‐fat diet has been especially implicated. There is some evidence that
antioxidant nutrients such as
carotene,
vitamins C and
E, and the mineral
selenium may be protective. See also
carcinogen.
Patients with advanced cancer are frequently malnourished, the condition of
cachexia.
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Cancer control policy in Australia.(Commentary)(Report)
Magazine article from: Australia and New Zealand Health Policy; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...targets within the cancer control plans have...care, specific cancers, and frameworks...strategic approaches to cancer control, for all cancers, at the national...association of cancer specialists...guidelines for most cancers. Mo
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Ovarian Cancer; Facts to Know.(care and treatment)(Disease/Disorder overview)
Newspaper article from: NWHRC Health Center - Ovarian Cancer; 5/30/2006; 700+ words
; ...according to the American Cancer Society, and about 15...19 percent of ovarian cancers are diagnosed at an early stage, when the cancer is confined to the ovary...National Ovarian Cancer Coalition, http...Uterine & Colon Cancers: Be Aware." National...
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Cancer survival in California farmworkers.(Report)
Magazine article from: Migrant Health Newsline; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...certain types of cancer including leukemia, lymphoma and cancers of the brain...men was prostate cancer followed by lung...colorectal and stomach cancers. These four cancers...frequently diagnosed cancers while colorectal and lung cancer were the third...
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Cancer Researcher Dr. Daniel Von Hoff Named Honoree of Scottsdale Healthcare Foundation's 34th Honor Ball.
Newspaper article from: Cancer Weekly; 12/22/2009; 700+ words
; ...from the event will benefit cancer research and treatment at Scottsdale...Healthcare's Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center. Dr. Von Hoff is internationally...pancreatic, basal cell and other cancers. His findings have been published...team in the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center at Scottsdale ...
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 "Consumer Health News (English)")
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U.S. cancer cases, deaths continue to drop; report says lifestyle changes, better screening and treatment explain decrease.(Report)
News Wire article from: Consumer Health News (English); 12/7/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...breast and colon cancers). New diagnoses for all types of cancer in the United States...similar for most cancers, deaths from pancreatic cancer, the fourth most...liver and colorectal cancers were the top three causes of cancer death. For women...
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Cancers unrecognized toll: Hours spent being treated
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 1/3/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Lichtenfeld noted: Cancers that often are diagnosed...time. Men with prostate cancer spent 55.3 more hours...without cancer. Breast cancer patients spent 66.2...hospital. Compare that to cancers with worse survival rates...caught late: Ovarian cancer patients struggled the...
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Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation Educates and Celebrates With National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month(TM)
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 3/6/2007; 700+ words
; ...EDITORS Contact: Jasmine Greenamyer of Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation...number of Americans who died of colorectal cancer dropped significantly for a second straight...diagnosed with the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Of those...
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CANCERS CAN BE PREVENTED.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 1/11/2004; 700+ words
; ...Memorial Sloan-Kettering's cancer prevention center will learn that many cancers can, in fact, be prevented...the early signs and symptoms of cancer and they almost certainly will have a cancer screening test, like a colonoscopy...
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CANCER A COMPLEX ENEMY WE'RE WINNING BATTLES, BUT THE WAR ISN'T OVER.(Local)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 4/10/1988; 700+ words
; ...failures glare. Lung cancer deaths are increasing among women. Few cancers can be cured when they...late. The overall cancer rate has increased...DIGESTIVE TRACT After cancers of the lung and skin, colorectal cancer is the most common...
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CANCER DETECTION IMPROVING.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 2/2/1988; 700+ words
; ...Paul Recer Associated Press The breast cancer detection rate among American women...The study, compiled by the National Cancer Institute to reflect rates of incidence and death from all types of cancer, said breast cancer is still the leading...
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Cancer
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...older. The most common cancers are skin cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer...and blood and lymph node cancer (leukemia and lymphomas...included among the 12 major cancers that affect most Americans. The term cancer derives from the observation...
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Anal Cancer
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
...400 cases of anal cancer were diagnosed in the...States in 2000. Anal cancer accounts for 1.5% of the cancers of the digestive system...62 years. Most anal cancers are squamous cell carcinomas...men to develop anal cancer. Anal cancer is more...
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Second Cancers
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
Second cancers Definition A second cancer is a malignancy...been treated for cancer. Although still...incidence of new cancers in patients cured...Although second cancers can occur following...for any type of cancer, researchers are...
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Cancer, Drugs, and Alcohol
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior
...substance to cause cancer is called carcinogenicity...substance will result in cancers in animals. The...cavity and trachea. Cancers of the Digestive...alcohol consumption and cancer of the digestive...clinical reports of cancers in the respiratory...rates of esophageal cancer hav
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Cancer Prevention
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
...additional 20, 000 cancer deaths were due...consumption . All cancers caused by smoking...factors for specific cancers continues. Lifestyle and cancer Nutrition The relationship...certain types of cancers. According to the American Cancer Society, the single...
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