Tag: cancer
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Eating Junk Food May Increase Colon Cancer Risk
The risk of developing colon cancer increases for certain individuals with a propensity for eating junk foods, reports a new study published in the current issue of the journal, Cancer. The study, conducted by researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, looked at people diagnosed with Lynch syndrome, a genetic disorder found in 1 out…
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New Drug Appears to Cause Cancer Cells to Self-Destruct
According to the American Cancer Society, the odds you’ll develop cancer in your lifetime are one in two, if you’re a man, and one in three, if you’re a woman.1 But an experimental cancer drug shown to shrink tumors by correcting metabolic oddities in cancer cells shows promise in the fight against this deadly disease.…