Dusting off an insidious legacy
With SA's long history as a major minerals producer, occupational lung diseases have been the high price paid by workers for many generations.
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A life gone up in smoke
Tobacco is the only legally available product that kills people when it is used entirely as intended.
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Living with the fear of dying
'I was living with this constant fear that I would be dead in three months".
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Celebrated scribe of suburbia, John Updike, dies
John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, died of lung cancer on Tuesday at age 76.
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Cuba approves lung cancer vaccine
Cuba has approved what is believed to be the world's first registered lung cancer vaccine and is offering it to Cuban and foreign patients.
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Smokeless tobacco ups oral cancer risk 80%
Chewing tobacco and snuff are less dangerous than cigarettes but the smokeless products still raise the risk of oral cancer by 80%, says the WHO.
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Cuba approves first therapeutic vaccine for lung cancer
Cuba has approved what is believed to be the world's first registered lung cancer vaccine and is offering it to Cuban and foreign patients.
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