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61) Cancer Clusters
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A panel of independent experts decided that the high incidence of breast cancer among women who had worked in the Australian Broadcasting Company's Brisbane newsroom could not be put down to chance so the site was permanently closed down and all production facilities relocated. This video segment investigates cancer clusters: particular environments with a greater than expected number of cancer cases. The official recognition of a cancer cluster is...
62) Clever Cancer
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Why is cancer so difficult to treat? In this video clip, hear from Professor Susan Clark, whose new research in epigenetics is helping the medical community better understand the clever tactics cancer cells use to evade the body's immune system.
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"Dava Shastri, one of the world's wealthiest women, has always lived with her sterling reputation in mind. A brain cancer diagnosis at the age of seventy, however, changes everything, as she decides to take her death-like all matters of her life-into her own hands. Summoning her four adult children to her private island, she discloses shocking news: in addition to having a terminal illness, she has arranged for the news of her death to break early,...
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"A veteran beauty industry insider presents the ultimate resource to looking your best during and after cancer treatment When beauty editor Caitlin Kiernan received the shattering diagnosis of cancer, she was obviously concerned about her health. But as a working professional, she knew she had to learn, quickly, how to look her best while feeling her worst. Caitlin called on her list of extensive contacts--from top medical doctors to hair stylists,...
66) Handling cancer
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"This book explores cancer and how people diagnosed with the disease manage it. It examines how cancer affects daily life, work, and school, and it explains the latest treatments available"--Amazon.
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People who smoke or use tobacco are at risk of developing throat cancer or malignant tumors of the vocal chords. Excessive alcohol use also increases risk. Most cancers of the throat or larynx develop in adults older than 50, and men are ten times more likely than women to develop them.
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People who smoke or use tobacco are at risk of developing throat cancer or malignant tumors of the vocal chords. Excessive alcohol use also increases risk. Most cancers of the throat or larynx develop in adults older than 50, and men are ten times more likely than women to develop them.
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In the developing world it’s the leading cause of female cancer deaths: it’s cervical cancer, and it kills more than half a million women every year—mostly in poor countries. New low-tech screening programs have begun to reduce cancer deaths, but campaigners like Sarah Nyombi, a politician in Uganda, wants to see more.She’s trying to get a brand new vaccine, widely used in the developed world. The trouble is, it costs $300 a shot—way beyond...
71) Hope was here
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When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.
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Treatments for prostate cancer come with a range of side effects like impotence, incontinence, and sometimes rectal bleeding. In this video clip, meet Gary O'Shea, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer and had to make the difficult decision about what to do next. Fearing the side effects, he declined treatment all together, and instead chose the procedure that is free of any side effects: active surveillance or "deferred therapy.
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Early detection of prostate cancer has always been a strong public health message, but does this end up causing more harm than good? Some doctors say that in the case of prostate cancer, it does. In this video clip, hear from doctors who fear that so much testing causes men with prostate cancers that don't cause any symptoms and aren't life-threatening to undergo unnecessary and life-altering treatment.
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"Following the success of Chris Beat Cancer, Chris Wark shares delectable, delicious, and easy-to-make recipes within his anti-cancer diet. This cookbook will help to support you on your healing journey. Whole-foods and plant-based, these meals, bowls, smoothies, and juices will energize both body and soul, while providing the comfort that all good food should. Complete with full-color photos of each recipe and suggestions for common diet modifications,...
76) Breathless
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A high school diving champion develops bone cancer in this story told from the points of view of the diver, his best friend, his sister, and his girlfriend.
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Early detection of cancer is important for a better chance of recovery. But in remote areas of the U.S., the imaging equipment used for disease screening, such as mammography, can be costly and hard to come by. Now, biomedical engineers have developed a way to test for cancer that is quick, easy and less expensive.
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For years, scientists tried to get cancer cells to reproduce outside of the body with little success. In 1951, a few days before an African-American woman named Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer in a Baltimore hospital, and without her consent, a scientist took samples from her remarkably aggressive tumor and placed them in growth medium to see if the cancerous cells would survive and grow. Not only did they flourish, but Henrietta's cells have...
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Women may be able to treat their breast cancer with a gel that is applied to the skin. Research at Northwestern University has shown that a gel form of tamoxifen applied to the breasts of women with noninvasive breast cancer reduced the growth of cancer cells to the same degree as the drug taken in oral form but with fewer side effects that deter some women from taking it.