Residents living beside an old mine dump face health problems as floods and heatwaves worsen the dangers of mining pollution
Residents are ailing, while the power utility resists retrofitting power stations to decrease emissions.
Convicted killer Clive Derby-Lewis has been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, according to his wife Gaye.
With SA’s long history as a major minerals producer, occupational lung diseases have been the high price paid by workers for many generations.
Tobacco is the only legally available product that kills people when it is used entirely as intended.
‘I was living with this constant fear that I would be dead in three months".
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/ 28 January 2009
John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, died of lung cancer on Tuesday at age 76.
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.
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.
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.