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Indoor Air Pollutin - Radon
... lung cancer. When exposures are high, noncancer diseases such as thickening of certain tissues of the lungs may occur. This usually occurs within a few days or weeks after exposure to radon. Cancer ... health effects other than to the lung. The following are some very informative external links that pertain to Radon: Questions and Answers About Radon and Cancer ATSDR - Public Health Statement - Radon ...
extoxnet.orst.edu

Lung Disease and Cancer from Tobacco
... cancer according to the Centers for Disease Control (1). Tobacco has been identified as the leading cause of lung disease. It is responsible for 80-90% of lung cancer ... cancer. Since the metabolism of substances occurs as a result of the stepwise activity of a variety of enzymes, a combined effect may also raise the risk of lung cancer among tobacco users. For a discussion about cancer ...
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Chemoprevention - The Answer to Cancer?, HYG-5051-98
... Lung Cancer Prevention Study, tested daily doses of alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) or beta-carotene, or both, on reducing the rates of lung and other cancers in male smokers. One of the findings included an 18% increase in lung cancer ...
ohioline.osu.edu

Access Excellence What's News- Science Updates, Biomedical Updates, Interviews, Factoids
... metagenomics approach. Sputum Samples May Predict Lung Cancer (05/26/06) - A non-invasive test currently under investigation may be able to predict who will get lung cancer as much as 18 months before ...
www.accessexcellence.org

Radon - Your Safe Home
... can damage our lungs. Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer; only smoking is more harmful to our lungs. How does radon ... can get lung cancer both from smoking and from radon. Living with someone who smokes is also dangerous because you can get lung cancer both from ... ask them to quit because your family is more likely to get lung cancer if someone is smoking and radon is in your home. Test ...
www.extension.umn.edu

Sara Stein
... Ones – even if she didn’t know about us then.” Despite an ongoing battle with lung cancer, Sara and her husband Marty continue promoting native landscaping from their house in Pound Ridge ...
www.for-wild.org

Nuclear power can't replace cheap oil.
... stored in bones, like calcium, where it compromises the immune system and may lead to cancer, especially leukemia. Cesium-137 is stored in the flesh of the fish and animals exposed ... in as microscopic contaminated dust particles is potently carcinogenic, with a very good chance of lung cancer within a decade or two of the incident. "It would take more than twice all ...
www.naturalhub.com

Watch Your Garden Grow - Carrot
... carotene. Beta carotene is also a powerful antioxidant effective in fighting against some forms of cancer, especially lung cancer. Current research suggests that it may also protect against stroke, and heart disease. Research ...
www.urbanext.uiuc.edu

Ethnobotany Garden - "The role of plants in society"
... branches and leaves has been used in the treatment of lung problems and as a treatment of internal complaints including ... In the early 1960s, the National Cancer Institute began a program screening possible sources for cancer remedies. One of the extracts ... as a stable source of future cancer drugs. Bibliography Monographs: Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1993 Number 15 Washington: ...
ethnobotany.yage.net

Gene Bank 2
... http://www.metla.fi/info/vlib/forestgen/animbred.htm 81. JCRB GENE Bank Fetal lung cDNA L13850 Fetal lung cDNA L13850. 373A HD:Results 11/4/93:L1-3850(Cks1).Seq ... Breast Cancer Registry and Gene Bank Contact Information - NCI Breast Cancer Specimen Data Information System Baylor SPORE - Familial Breast Cancer Registry and Gene Bank Susan G. Hilsenbeck, Ph.D. Director, Familial Breast Cancer ...
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