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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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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

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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

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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

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By Mary Morningstar Washington 16 October 2006 Singer Freddy Fender died of lung cancer Saturday, October 14, at his home in Corpus Christi, Texas. He was 69. During a career that spanned more than four decades, Fender enjoyed success in pop, Countr

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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

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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

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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

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By Jessica Berman Washington 18 December 2007 The first estimate of cancer deaths worldwide concludes that 2007 will close with 7.6 million deaths as a result of the disease. According to the report called Global Cancer Facts and Figures, 12 million

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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

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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

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