CANCER RATES DROP SHARPLY IN N.J.

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  March 12, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Record (Bergen County, NJ) 03-12-1998 CANCER RATES DROP SHARPLY IN N.J. By DAVID HOLMBERG...2 Star P, 1 Star Late, 1 Star Early Cancer rates in New Jersey declined dramatically...better screening and detection. Overall cancer rates for men dropped nearly 18 percent during...

Study: California ethnic groups seeing increased cancer rates.(Relevant...

Black Issues in Higher Education;  January 13, 2005 ;     504 words ......study on cancer and ethnicity hints that cancer rates among immigrant groups may be tied to...Center, marks the first statewide look at cancer rates among Vietnamese and South Asians and...breathing the same air, and yet these cancer rates and trends are profoundly different...

Cancer rates not higher near base

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  October 29, 2005 ;     474 words ...Cancer rates are no higher for Davis County residents living near...it's reassuring that we are not seeing elevated cancer rates," he said. Concerns about possible increased cancer rates go back years, Garrett said. The Davis County Health...

Group to study Livingston cancer rates

The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL;  December 11, 2004 ;     468 words ......that the county has higher-than-normal cancer rates. The Livingston County Environmental...the University of Illinois to examine cancer rates and possible environmental factors that...cancers. "There was a lot of comments on cancer rates in the county," association President...

EXPERTS BLAME SMOKING FOR RISE IN CANCER RATES IN FAR...

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  June 2, 1996 ;     245 words ......Yereth Rosen Reuter ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Cancer rates are skyrocketing in the Far North among...this year on tobacco and skyrocketing cancer rates among indigenous populations. A nine-ye...the Danish Cancer Registry found lung cancer rates among Inuit populations around the Far...

Glasgow cancer rates the worst in Scotland

Evening Times;  February 20, 2006 ;     158 words ......cancer statistics show huge variations in cancer rates across the country, with Glasgow and...deprivation are the most likely to have higher cancer rates. For lung cancer, Glasgow has an annual...Shetland with 29 per 100,000. For overall cancer rates Glasgow again comes out on top.

NZ cancer rates world third highest

Xinhua News Agency;  April 28, 2005 ;     199 words ...NZ cancer rates world third highest WELLINGTON, April...men and women have the third highest cancer rates in the world, said the Cancer Society...commonly diagnosed cancers worldwide. Male cancer rates are highest in the United States, Hungary...

County's Breast Cancer Rates Not As High

AP Online;  April 5, 2003 ;     394 words ......Studies that found skyrocketing breast cancer rates in Marin County relied on faulty population...Cancer Institute did not release revised cancer rates for Marin, the affluent county just...Cancer Center concluded that breast cancer rates had increased 20 percent among white...

Cancer rates in north China city rise sharply in 20 years

Xinhua News Agency;  March 7, 2007 ;     215 words ...Cancer rates in north China city rise sharply in 20 years BEIJING, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Cancer rates in north China's port city Tianjin have...monitoring system in China. Along with cancer rates, the average age of Tianjin resident also...

Cancer rates 'multiply near nuclear plant'

The Independent - London;  July 15, 2002 ;     67 words ...CANCER RATES in a town close close to Hinkley Point nuclear power station are up to...residents of Burnham-on- Sea, Somerset, showed that cervical and kidney cancer rates are five times the average, with the leukaemia rate four times higher...

CANCER RATES CITED IN 3 TOWNS IN BERGEN

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  September 6, 1997 ;     700+ words ......Record (Bergen County, NJ) 09-06-1997 CANCER RATES CITED IN 3 TOWNS IN BERGEN -- TWICE...incorporated into a federal inquiry into the cancer rates near Superfund waste sites in six states...national rate. Even though New Jersey cancer rates tend to exceed the national average...

Marin Breast Cancer Rates Said Lower

AP Online;  April 4, 2003 ;     352 words ......Studies that found skyrocketing breast cancer rates in Marin County relied on faulty population...Cancer Institute did not release revised cancer rates for Marin, the affluent county just...Cancer Center concluded that breast cancer rates had increased 20 percent among white...

SA: Study shows higher breast cancer rates in hospital building

AAP General News (Australia);  June 3, 2008 ;     298 words ......06-03-2008 SA: Study shows higher breast cancer rates in hospital building ADELAIDE, June...investigation had revealed no increase in cancer rates across the whole hospital campus. But...had found an increase in the breast cancer rates in the Queen Victoria building and...

Study Links Three Mile Island Radiation Releases to Higher Cancer Rates

The Washington Post;  February 24, 1997 ;     700+ words ......Mile Island nuclear plant to higher cancer rates in nearby communities in a study that...connection between the accident and cancer rates among residents living near the plant...radiation, then you are left with higher cancer rates . . . that are otherwise unexplainable...

Study: L.A. County Cancer Rates Down

AP Online;  August 22, 2003 ;     371 words ......There are also wide differences in cancer rates between ethnic groups that offer tantalizing...during that time. Latinos have lower cancer rates than blacks, and whites and Asians have lower cancer rates than Latinos, the study found. But...