Tag: cancer risk
What is oral cancer, the condition John Farnham is being treated for?
Image: Dean Lewins/AAP
Seventy three-year-old Australian music icon John Farnham is in a stable condition in intensive care after undergoing surgery to remove an oral...
Sweeteners may be linked to increased cancer risk – new research
Image: The sweetener aspartame is found is many common foods and drinks, such as diet sodas. Kmpzzz/ Shutterstock
Sweeteners have long been suggested to be bad...
Research Check: can you cut your cancer risk by eating organic?
The science isn’t clear on whether organic foods can
lower your risk of cancer. But eating plenty of fruit and veg
– however...
Time doesn’t heal all wounds: how DNA damage as we age causes cancer
Our risk of cancer is determined by a complex mix
of genes,environment and lifestyle factors. Claudia van Zyl
As we age, our bodies inevitably...