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Radiation helps xerostomia
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Dry mouth (xerostomia), is most commonly caused by radiation therapy directed at the head and neck region of the body. Radiation may irreversibly affect the production and quality of saliva in the salivary glands. A number of medications can also induce xerostomia. Dry mouth may affect the patients speech, taste sensation and ability to swallow.
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Happy or sad World Cancer Day?
Published 02/9/2007 in All Cancers , Blood Cancer , Bone Cancer , Brain Cancer , Breast Cancer , Esophageal Cancer , Eye Cancer , Kidney Cancer , Leukemia , Lung Cancer , Multiple Myeloma , Non Hodgkins Lymphoma , Oral Cancer , Ovarian Cancer , Pancreatic Cancer , Pet Cancers , Pregnancy and cancer , Prostate Cancer , Teen Cancers , Testicular Cancer , Throat Cancer , Thymic Cancer , Thyroid Cancer , Tissue Cancers , Tongue Cancer , Uterine Cancer , Young Adult Cancers , Liver Cancer , Cancer events , Pink products , Daily news , Opinion , Saturday Six , Sunday Seven , Head and Neck Cancer | Unrated
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I guess the concept is happy -- the public urging for our world's policy makers to make cancer a top priority -- but the fact that becomes all too apparent on this World Cancer Day is quite sobering. More than seven million people die from cancer and close to 11 million new cases are diagnosed worldwide each year. In 2006, cancer killed more people than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined.
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A hypochondriac gets cancer and writes a book
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 John Diamond was a British journalist who died from tongue cancer in 2001. He wrote a book called Because Cowards Get Cancer Too: A Hypochondriac Confronts his Nemesis.
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