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Doctors: Cancer is the ‘great equalizer’

WASHINGTON — A powerful podium like Tony Snow’s and wealth like Elizabeth Edwards’ mean nothing to cancer cells. A disease that afflicts the comfortable along with everyone else, cancer casts a large shadow in this presidential campaign, and now in the White House.
The back-to-back revelations that President Bush’s spokesman and the wife of Democratic presidential […]

Lung cancer cases in non-smokers

Up to 20 percent of women who develop lung cancer have never smoked, US researchers found in a study that suggests secondhand smoke may be to blame. A survey of a million people in the US and Sweden shows that just eight percent of men who get lung cancer are non-smokers. “I have a lot […]