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Researchers Blame HPV For Rise In Throat Cancer

For five grueling months in 2006 and 2007, Carol Kanga suffered through treatment for a life-threatening case of throat cancer linked to an unlikely source: a sexually transmitted viral infection.
Unable to swallow food or water during chemotherapy and radiation treatment, Kanga was fed through a stomach tube. Her one respite came on Thanksgiving, when she […]

Drinking diaries: A doctor’s verdict

Caroline Eardley, 29, classes herself as a social drinker, who drinks no more than other people she knows, so she was shocked when she saw her total.
“When I wrote down the amount, I was like ‘woah that is a lot’.

Hundreds of bikers show support for Livestrong Day in Shelby

Rain soaked their bright yellow shirts, but it didn’t dampen their spirits.
About 200 bikers made the six-mile ride around Shelby on Saturday to raise pledges in support of Lance Armstrong Livestrong Day, which officially was Tuesday.

Beating this disease Koopman back on the lacrosse field less than nine months after cancer diagnosis

It all began with a bump — a mass located above the collar bone.
Seventeen-year-old Pete Koopman of West Newbury didn’t think much of it last October, and neither did his family, including his mom, Beth, a nurse at Anna Jacques in Newburyport.

Lasers May Treat Cancers of the Larynx

For people with early cancer of the larynx, the standard treatment can be grueling: a biopsy in an operating room followed by a six-week course of radiation that may lead to permanent hoarseness or speech impairment.
But a team of Harvard doctors is reporting that a new outpatient laser procedure promises to eliminate the need for […]

Health Highlights: May 4, 2008

government alert that there is a “reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death,” a New York City company that sells processed foods has recalled 286,000 pounds of prepared beef, pork and poultry, the New York Times reports.
The danger is from the bacterium listeria, which causes listeriosis, […]

Gardasil Guards Against Vaginal, Vulval Cancers

An international study shows that the cervical cancer vaccine that received government approval in the United States last year also protects women against vulval and vaginal cancers.
The findings seem to confirm that human papillomavirus (HPV), which is responsible for virtually all cases of cervical cancer, is also responsible for many cases of vulval and vaginal […]

Moderate Drinking May Lower Kidney Cancer Risk

Moderate drinking may lower the risk of a type of kidney malignancy called renal cell cancer, according to a review of data from 12 studies that included more than 750,000 people in five countries.
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston concluded that women and men who drank an average of one alcoholic beverage a […]