Tag: lung cancer
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Report links smoking with rheumatoid arthritis, other diseases
By Melissa Landon Kentucky Health News Smoking is even more harmful than previously thought. It not only can cause lung cancer but also rheumatoid arthritis and a long list of...
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U of L researchers developing a breath test for lung cancer
Lung cancer victims often don’t notice any symptoms before it’s too late, and Kentucky suffers from the highest rate of the disease — 3,500 deaths per year. Smoking, the leading...
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By more than 2-1, Kentuckians support a statewide ban on smoking in most public places, including restaurants and bars
By more than 2 to 1, the heaviest margin ever, Kentucky adults favor a state law to ban smoking in most public places, including restaurants and bars, according to the...
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Weekly paper in Hazard calls for statewide smoking ban
A statewide smoking ban should be a priority for the Kentucky General Assembly when it begins its session Jan. 7, The Hazard Herald said in an editorial during Christmas week....
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Low-dose CT scans find lung cancer before X-rays, save lives
Low-dose computed tomography, commonly known as CT scans, are reducing lung-cancer deaths by finding the cancer early before it spreads to other parts of the body, UK HealthCare reports. Used...
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Kentucky spends less than a penny of its tobacco-settlement money on prevention programs; few states do very much
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News A new report says that 15 years after the 1998 state tobacco settlement, Kentucky ranks 38th in the nation in funding tobacco prevention and...
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‘Faces of Lung Cancer’ photo exhibit at Markey Cancer Center is meant to spread awareness about disease and its prevention
Lung cancer survivor Juanita Meade “Faces of Lung Cancer,” a photo exhibit with portraits and inspirational messages from nine lung cancer survivors in Kentucky, is on display at the University...
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Great American Smokeout is Thursday, Nov. 21, featuring supportive characters to share on social media and a Twitter chat
The American Cancer Society‘s annual Great American Smokeout will be held Thursday, Nov. 21. The event encourages smokers to quit smoking, or make a plan to quit smoking, that day. Quitting,...
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Hard-hitting TV ads against smoking do motivate smokers, like one mother from Elizabethtown, to quit
Hancock with CDC Director Tom Frieden A 38-year-old Elizabethtown mother’s response to a federally funded anti-smoking advertising campaign has been featured in national news this week, showing that these graphic ads...
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UK, with magnet of National Cancer Institute designation, attracts 4 researchers and their $17 million in funding from U of L
“A month after the University of Kentucky announced it is home to the state’s first National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center, an internationally recognized research team studying the role metabolism plays...