Tag: cancer

• Monday, April 29th 2024 - 16:07 UTC

  Former President José Mujica reveals that he suffers from cancer

  

  Former Uruguayan President José “Pepe” Mujica revealed on Monday that he had been diagnosed with a tumor in his esophagus following a routine medical examination on Friday. At a press conference surrounded by leaders, activists and supporters of his Frente Amplio party, the world-renowned political figure vowed to continue his activism despite the health challenge.

• Wednesday, September 15th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  Pelé discharged from ICU but stays hospitalized

  

  Brazilian football legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known worldwide as Pelé, has been discharged from São Paulo's Albert Einstein hospital's Intensive Care Unit Tuesday but will remain in the institution to continue with his recovery from a colon tumour surgery.

• Saturday, June 19th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  New study finds links between red meat diet and colorectal cancer incidence

  

  AFP – A new paper in the journal Cancer Discovery has identified specific patterns of DNA damage triggered by diets rich in red meat - further implicating the food as a carcinogen while heralding the possibility of detecting cancer early and designing new treatments.

• Thursday, May 21st 2020 - 07:58 UTC

  J&J will stop selling its talk based Baby Powder because of 16.000 lawsuits claiming it is carcinogenic

  

  Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday announced that it would stop selling its talc-based Johnson's Baby Powder in the United States and Canada, saying it was part of a broad reassessment of its consumer product portfolio prompted by the coronavirus pandemic.

• Monday, December 23rd 2019 - 21:44 UTC

  US Environment agency reaffirms glyphosate does not cause cancer; contradicts California court verdict

  

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Justice Department said a federal appeals court should reverse a lower court verdict finding Bayer AG liable in the case of a California man who blamed its Roundup weed killer for his cancer.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Two Americans and a Briton win the 2019 Nobel Medicine Prize

  

  Two Americans and a Briton won the 2019 Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for discovering a molecular switch that regulates how cells adapt to fluctuating oxygen levels, opening up new approaches to treating heart failure, anemia and cancer.

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  Obesity could be the cause of many types of cancer, more than smoking

  

  
Obesity is more likely the cause in some types of cancer than smoking, according to the findings of a study released by a cancer research organization on Wednesday. According to Cancer Research UK, four common cancers – bowel, kidney, ovarian and liver – are more likely to have been caused by being overweight than by smoking tobacco.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Bayer-Monsanto loses US$ 2bn glyphosate law suit in California

  

  A jury in California on Monday ordered Bayer-owned Monsanto to pay more than US$2 billion damages to a couple who sued on grounds the weed killer Roundup caused their cancer, lawyers said.

• Wednesday, March 20th 2019 - 10:11 UTC

  US jury considers glyphosate “a substantial factor” in causing human cancer

  

  A US jury has found that one of the world's most widely-used weed-killers was a “substantial factor” in causing a man's cancer. Pharmaceutical group Bayer had strongly rejected claims that its glyphosate-based Roundup product was carcinogenic. But the jury in San Francisco ruled unanimously that it contributed to causing non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in California resident Edwin Hardeman.

• Friday, February 15th 2019 - 07:08 UTC

  International Childhood Cancer Day 2019

  

  Each year, an estimated 215 000 cancers are diagnosed in children younger than 15 years, and about 85 000 cancers in those aged 15–19 years. These estimates are based on data collected by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) from population-based cancer registries around the world.