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Tommy Chong battling prostate cancer
Tommy Chong, one-half of the marijuana-loving "Cheech and Chong" comedy duo, is battling prostate cancer, he announced Saturday on CNN. Having first noticed symptoms about eight years ago while incarcerated for selling drug paraphernalia, Chong said he...
Tags: Tommy Chong, Comedy (genre), Cheech Marin, Movies, That '70s Show (tv program)
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Many men with low-risk prostate cancer overtreated, study finds
About three-quarters of men with low-risk prostate tumors that can safely be ignored for months or years receive aggressive treatment, despite the risk of complications, researchers reported Monday. The findings, published in the Archives of Internal...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Diseases and Illnesses, Cancer, Tumors, Drugs and Medicines
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Gov. Jerry Brown: Some information about early prostate cancer
Gov. Jerry Brown is undergoing treatment for localized prostate cancer, according to a statement released by the governor’s office. In it, Brown’s UC San Francisco oncologist was quoted as saying that "fortunately, this is early stage...Tags: Oncology, Jerry Brown, Health Treatments, General Practitioners, Politics
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Vitamin E increases prostate cancer risk: Study
![Vitamin E supplements increase the risk of prostate cancer in healthy, middle-aged and older men, according to <a href="http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/306/14/1549" target="_blank">research published today</a> that strengthens the evidence that some micronutrients, often marketed as antioxidants, are ineffective at preventing cancer and might even do harm.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-10/65346237-11152631-187105.JPG "Vitamin E supplements increase the risk of prostate cancer in healthy, middle-aged and older men, according to <a href="http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/306/14/1549\" target=\"_blank\">research published today</a> that strengthens the evidence that some micronutrients, often marketed as antioxidants, are ineffective at preventing cancer and might even do harm.")
Vitamin E supplements increase the risk of prostate cancer in healthy, middle-aged and older men, according to research published today that strengthens the evidence that some micronutrients, often marketed as antioxidants, are ineffective at preventing...Tags: Diabetes, Diseases and Illnesses, Cancer, Vitamin E, Heart Disease
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Forty-five medical tests patients and doctors should question
![The new listing of <a href="http://choosingwisely.org/?page_id=13" target="_blank">45 common treatments patients and doctors should question</a> is part of a growing movement that challenges routine care.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-04/69210697-04154817-187105.JPG "The new listing of <a href="http://choosingwisely.org/?page_id=13\" target=\"_blank\">45 common treatments patients and doctors should question</a> is part of a growing movement that challenges routine care.")
The new listing of 45 common treatments patients and doctors should question is part of a growing movement that challenges routine care.
Next up: The upcoming Avoiding Avoidable Care summit, to be held on April 25 in Boston, will bring together more than...Tags: Shelton, Lower Back Pain, Medical Procedures and Tests, Julie Deardorff, Chicago Tribune
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POM Wonderful pushes back against FTC
POM Wonderful, a manufacturer of pomegranate juice and supplements, is pushing back against a recent ruling that found the company violated federal law by making deceptive disease prevention and treatment claims.
Boldly asserting its right to legally...Tags: Justice System, Cancer, Diseases and Illnesses, Science and Technology, Heart Disease
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DNA referees
Your life story depends upon a combination of the DNA you're stuck with plus your environment, including all the little choices and events that happen over that lifetime.
But in recent years, researchers have discovered that, while DNA lays out the...Tags: Science and Technology, Research, Alcoholic Beverages, Gaming, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Cancer screening: What could it hurt? A lot, actually
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
In 1984, Japan began screening the urine of 6-month-old infants for neuroblastoma, the most common type of solid tumor in young children. The test was simple and could show signs of cancer long before clinical...Tags: Soccer, Death, Diseases and Illnesses, Tumors, Science and Technology
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Cancer awareness grows with mustaches on L.A. City Hall officials
L.A. NOWSome are slim and Zorro-like. Others are bushy. And still others, like L.A. City Councilman Joe Buscaino’s, look like they belong on the mug of a biker dude named Bubba. Buscaino’s handlebar mustache, one of a handful that have recently... -
No overall increased cancer risk for those exposed to WTC site
A new study has some good news for people who lived or worked in lower Manhattan after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center – exposure to dust and debris from the fallen twin towers has not resulted in an overall...
Tags: Mesothelioma, Environmental Issues, New York City, Cancer, Science and Technology
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Anne Arundel County health briefs
Exercise classes Baltimore Washington Medical Center will offer exercise classes at its campus, 301 Hospital Drive in Glen Burnie, and at BW Health Service, 7556 Teague Road in Hanover, beginning Jan. 7. The 10-week session will offer beginning yoga,...Tags: Immunization, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Pilates, Lobbying, Diseases and Illnesses
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D'Arcy treated for prostate cancer
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — The retired bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend says he will undergo radiation treatments for prostate cancer. The Rev. John M. D'Arcy is 78 and retired in January 2010 one year ago and was...Tags: Health, Roman Catholicism, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Diseases and Illnesses, Cancer
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