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Thanks to the large amount of research in relation to cancer, variety of treatments, effective detection techniques of cancer and the decline in the number of smokers, statistics show that the cancer is better controlled than ever, something highly significant if we have in mind that we are talking about one of the problems that affect more to the world’s population.
The most common cancers have experienced a significant decrease in regard to manifest cases, in some cases up to 4 percent a year. The data have been provided by the American Cancer Society and other groups that have relieved statistical information in relation to the present situation of the disease.
In this way has been achieved observe a 4 percent of annual decrease in prostate cancer, a 3 percent in colon cancer and a 2 percent in breast cancer. In addition, the men have also fallen lung cancer, prostate and colorectal cancer, while in the women represent declines more significant are the breast cancer and also the colorectal. Read the rest of this entry »

People who take their hot tea will get greater risk of throat cancer, according to research published by the British Medical Journal.
The cancer of the esophagus is linked to the consumption of tobacco and alcohol abuse, but the hot drinks have also been considered a risk factor, possibly due to damage to the tissues of the throat.
Interested to know more, the researchers Iranians went to the province of Golestan, which has one of the highest rates of esophageal cancer in the world. Read the rest of this entry »