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Medscape News - To Treat or Not to Treat? Progression to Dysplasia and Cancer Among BE Patients Overdiagnosis in Lung Cancer Screening Inhaled Insulin vs. Metformin for Type 2 Diabetes
What are the risks of smoking?
CNN - Most of those — 116,920 — are from lung cancer. The CDC says men who smoke are 22 times more likely to die from lung cancer than non-smokers. Women who smoke are 12 times more likely to die from the disease. Statistical studies have long shown
Medical Debate: Stopping Lung Cancer?
HealthScout - SEATTLE (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) — Lung cancer is the leading cancer killer in both men and women in this country. CT scans have been recently shown to detect lung cancer early, and some hope it will decrease the number of deaths. But other doctors
Smokeless Doesn’t Mean Harmless
ABC News - Worse, there was a 46 percent increase in lung cancer, a 13 percent increase in heart disease, and a 24 percent increase in stroke in the group that switched to smokeless tobacco. An Unhealthy Alternative Smokeless tobacco, also known as spit tobacco
Genentech in Neutral
Street.Com - On Tuesday, GlaxoSmithkline ( GSK - Cramer’s Take - Stockpickr ) received approval to market Tykerb, a new breast cancer drug that might give Genentech’s Herceptin some competition. Last month, a lung cancer study showed that a lower dose of Genentech’s
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