Category: Cancer
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Recommendation to Limit Md. School Wi-Fi Based on ‘Junk Science’
The Children’s Environmental Health and Protection Advisory Council (CEHPAC), an agency within Maryland’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, has recommended that schools reduce or eliminate students’ exposure to Wi-Fi because it believes wireless signals might cause cancer. This is pure, unadulterated junk science. Read the rest at Baltimore Sun.
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Hot Water Causes Cancer? Don’t Believe It
If nanny state critics want a fine example of regulation gone wild, they should look to the World Health Organization. The group’s International Agency for Research on Cancer has given us a reason to fire up our espresso machines by declaring that coffee does not cause cancer. But don’t celebrate too hard. The IARC also…
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Cachexia: Why Cancer Patients Waste Away
This article was originally posted on RealClearScience. One of the most pernicious conditions that arises as a consequence of cancer is a sort of wasting syndrome. More formally known as cachexia, it causes patients to lose body mass (including both muscle and fat) and to grow weak and fatigued. Whether or not a patient develops…
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Scratched Moles Could Lead to Cancer
It may be wise to take the precaution of protecting your moles from physical injury.
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Literature Review Links Coffee & Bladder Cancer
Each additional daily cup of coffee you drink raises your risk of bladder cancer by 3% to 5%.
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From Which Cancer Will You Die?
About 25% of Americans will end up with “cancer” written on their death certificates.
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Getting Cancer at San Francisco Airport
The foolishness in California is the inevitable consequence of a chemophobic society that wields the evil twins of regulation and litigation as weapons in a fruitless effort to achieve the impossible: a life completely free of any risk whatsoever.
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We Are Slowly Winning the War on Cancer
Cancer, you’re on notice.
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Vitamin C: Maybe Linus Pauling Wasn’t Entirely Crazy
Though Linus Pauling is still mostly wrong, perhaps the potential therapeutic benefit of vitamin C injections could be magnanimously interpreted as a small step toward rehabilitating his tainted legacy.