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Saturday, 28 August 2010
Throat cancer rates soar in men
Throat cancer cases have soared by 50 per cent in men in the last 25 years due to obesity and bad diet, researchers have found. Back in the eighties around 2,600 men were diagnosed with oesophageal cancer every year but now the figure is more than 5,100. The most dramatic rise was among men in their 50s, as rates increased by 67 per cent over the same period. Rates in women also rose, but only by eight per cent, from 5.1 to 5.5 per 100,000 people. Professor Janusz Jankowski, a Cancer Research UK...
Full Story: The Daily Telegraph
 


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