Topic: Michael Thun
Study: Blood pressure pills could raise cancer risk but doctors say not to ditch drugsSome of the world's most popular blood pressure pills may slightly increase your risk of getting cancer, but doctors say it's too soon to ditch the ...
About 85 percent of those people were on telmisartan, sold as Micardis, made by Boehringer Ingelheim Corp. No funding was provided for the study, but Dr. Ilke Sipahi, the study's lead author, has received past payments from drug makers Pfizer Inc ...
A report by the President's Cancer Panel, released earlier this month, reignited a 30-year-old controversy among cancer experts and environmental epidemiologists about how large a role environmental factors play in the No. 2 killer of Americans.. Some experts, including the President ...
One day after a report from the President's Cancer Panel faulted the United States for not doing enough to reduce the incidence of environmentally induced cancers, the American Cancer Society took issue with that conclusion.. In the report released Thursday, the ...
The number of cancers caused by growing exposure to environmental toxins has been " But the American Cancer Society (ACS) has posted a response online saying that the report is "unbalanced", and could "trivialise the importance of other modifiable risk factors that, at ...
While the American Cancer Society agrees with many elements of the report, it's not too keen on that "grossly underestimated" part. (Read here for more on what the ACS does feel are the big cancer threats - smoking and obesity, for example ...
Despite huge strides in treatment over the past four decades, cancer remains the second leading cause of death in the United States, claiming the lives of 560,000 people last year, a report said Tuesday.The report in a special edition of ...
However, the World Health Organization insists there may in fact be such a link. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) says long-term cellphone usage may be linked to some cancers, according to an Octoeber report in the UK's Daily Telegraph. This ...
Women may be more vulnerable than men to the carcinogens and other noxious substances in cigarette smoke, a growing body of research suggests.. In one study of nearly 700 people with lung cancer, Swiss experts found that women tended to be younger ...
In one study of nearly 700 people with lung cancer, Swiss experts found that women tended to be younger when they received the diagnosis, even though they smoked less than the men who developed lung cancer.. However, Dr. Michael Thun, the emeritus ...
