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NRA’s bill to ban anti-gun lobbying would cripple anti-smoking programs
The American Cancer Society says that a bill being pushed by the National Rifle Association (NRA) in Kansas to ban lobbying against guns would also restrict anti-smoking and anti-drinking programs. State Senate Bill 45 prevents “any money appropriated by the state legislature” from being used to “promote any proposed, pending…
Cancer rates decline in African-American men although racial disparities remain
A new joint report from multiple health agencies said that U.S. cancer deaths among African-American men have declined, but that racial disparities remain. According to CNN, the widest gap in treatment and survival rates occurs with cancers which are found through routine screenings such as breast, prostate and colorectal cancer,…
HPV and obesity surging as cancer factors even as cancer deaths drop
The American Cancer Society released a report on Monday that said while overall cancer deaths are down, two causes of common cancers, obesity and HPV, are driving more diagnoses and causing more illness. According to NBC News, both of these factors are preventable, but health officials aren’t doing enough to…
Number of U.S. cancer survivors set to reach 18 million in a decade
The number of people in the United States who have survived cancer is set to reach nearly 18 million in the next decade, up from 13.7 million currently, said a US study out Thursday. The number of survivors is growing because of better treatments and an ageing and expanding population,…
Deaths from cancer in U.S. continue to fall
WASHINGTON — Cancer deaths in the United States continued to decline over the past decade, said a yearly report on US cancer statistics released Wednesday. Trends in death rates from cancer declined an average of 1.7 percent per year among men and 1.3 percent among women and children from 1998…
California bans under-age tanning and public guns
LOS ANGELES — California governor Jerry Brown won praise Monday for banning under 18s from using tanning beds, the first US state to do so to protect minors from increased skin cancer risks. The move was approved amid a slew of new state laws, including one that bans people from…
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