Japanese Emperor Undergoes 1)Prostate Cancer Surgery

Broadcast: Jan 18, 2003 Japan's Emperor Akihito has undergone surgery for prostate cancer. His surgeons say the 2) prognosis for a full recovery look good. Doctors who performed the procedure Saturday

Aspirin and Pancreatic Cancer

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: November 12, 2003 This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. Researchers who found a possible link between aspirin and the risk of cancer of th

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By Jane M Friedman Washington, DC 11 April 2006 watch DNA Skin Cream report In the United States, where skin cancer is common, a team at the University of Alabama Birmingham is trying out a cream that

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Beating Cancer: A Quest for Miracles By Fawn Vrazo / 2005, The Philadelphia Inquirer , Knight Ridder Newspapers. Distributed by Tribune Media Services. New hope that targeted therapies will be the ult

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Broadcast: May 13, 2003 by Caty Weaver VOICE ONE: I'm Sarah Long with Bob Doughty, and this is the VOA Special English program, SCIENCE IN THE NEWS. VOICE TWO: Today--a new warning about body weight a

Animal Fats and Breast Cancer

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: August 27, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Health Report. The World Health Organization says more than one-million people this year will discover the

Cancer and Children

Broadcast: February 26, 2003 By Jerilyn Watson This is Bill White the VOA Special English Health Report. Most children who die of cancer are in developing nations. British researchers say only ten per

HEALTH REPORT - Prostate Cancer Update

HEALTH REPORT - October 2, 2002: Prostate Cancer Update By Nancy Steinbach This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Scientists in Sweden have shown that removing a cancerous prostate gland reduc

ENVIRONMENT REPORT - Air Pollution/Lung Cancer

By Cynthia Kirk ENVIRONMENT REPORT -March 22, 2002: Air Pollution/Lung Cancer This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. Researchers have completed a major study on the health effects of air

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By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 26 January 2006 watch Health report Promising new developments -- and disappointments -- in the battle against some of the major diseases plaguing the planet: Smallpox - w

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Obama: US Supports Political, Economic Reform in Mideast, N. Africa In a major address on historic changes in the Middle East and North Africa, President Barack Obama says the United States stands firmly on the side of people protesting for democrati

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Urine Test May Improve Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Scientists have developed a new test for prostate cancer that may help patients and their doctors make difficult treatment decisions. But identifying the most aggressive and dangerous prostate cancers

Aspirin may help to prevent cancer: study

BEIJING, Oct. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- Taking aspirin everyday may lower the risk of developing colon cancer for people with the cancer-causing genes, researchers found. The finding was published on Friday in the British medical journal Lancet. The research

South Africans at high risk of cervical cancer

JOHANNESBURG, March 23 (Xinhua) -- Cervical cancer ranks as the second most frequent(频繁的) cancer among women in South Africa. Recent information from a World Health Organization (WHO) and ICO Information Center on Human Papilloma virus (HPV) an

World Said to Be on Brink of Cancer Epidemic

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 04 February 2008 International health agencies say the world is on the brink of a cancer epidemic. The World Health Organization reports 7.6 million people died of the disease in 2005. It predicts the number of cancer deaths an

Less educated Americans more likely to die of cancer

BEIJING, June 20 (Xinhuanet) -- American Cancer Society discloses that higher education appears to be a game changer when it comes to cancer, according to foreign media reports on Sunday. The research indicates that the gap is widening in cancer deat

Drinking coffee may cut risk of skin cancer

BEIJING, Otc. 26 (Xinhuanet) -- The more coffee people consume, the less likely they develop the most common form of skin cancer, a new study suggests, according to media reports Tuesday. Our study indicates that coffee consumption may be an importan

Newly Discovered Biomarker Predicts Cancer Growth

One of the most common questions cancer patients ask their doctors is: has the disease been contained or will it spread. A recent study by U.S. and Chinese researchers may help provide clues. The scientists examined genetic（遗传的,基因的） m

Breast cancer more deadly to blacks

BEIJING, July 26 (Xinhuanet) -- The breast cancer is more deadly to black women than to whites, a new study found. This finding was published online Monday on the Journal of Clinical Oncology in the United States. The study was done by the City of Ho

9/11 firefighters more likely to develop cancer

BEIJING, Sept. 2 (Xinhuanet) -- Firefighters who worked in the wreckage of the World Trade Center in 2001 were 19 percent more likely to develop cancer than those who were not there, according to a study. The study, published Thursday in the British