Smokers' families 25% more likely to get cancer

Article Abstract:

Living with someone who smokes can greatly increase the danger of developing heart disease or lung cancer. Indeed, non-smokers who live with a smoker have a 23% higher risk of heart disease and a 26% higher risk of lung cancer, according to research undertaken by the Wolfson Institute for Preventive Medicine in London, England. These findings could encourage the UK government to consider a more extensive ban on smoking in public places in order to make a general improvement to the health of the nation.

Specialty outpatient clinics, not elsewhere classified, Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers, Antismoking Programs, Risk factors, Heart diseases, Smoking cessation, Passive smoking

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Breast cancer treatment is variable and substandard

Article Abstract:

There are significant variations across the UK in approaches to treatment of breast cancer, according to recent research. Some surgeons frequently opt to perform a mastectomy, while others rarely use this approach. The variation in treatment is not connected with the size of tumour or the severity of the cancer. In the UK, 45% of women diagnosed with breast cancer die within five years, compared with 21% in the US, 35% in France and 40% in Germany.

HEALTH SERVICES, Cancer Therapy, Ambulatory Health Care Services, Care and treatment, Breast cancer, Cancer treatment

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Nazis were first to link tobacco and lung cancer

Article Abstract:

Previously unknown research undertaken during the Nazi regime connected tobacco with lung cancer. This research was dismissed as tainted by other countries.

Cigarettes, Cigarette Manufacturing, Causes of, Smoking, National socialists

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