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How a price-hiking "meat tax" could prevent 220,000 deaths and save more than US$40 billion in health care costs around the world every year.
Eating meat damages the environment and has been linked with higher risk of disease, but you don't have to go vegan to make a difference to your health and the planet.
A new machine-learning algorithm does more with less.
The fallout from childhood cancer is much wider than just the patient and their parents.
The opioid epidemic has hit parts of Appalachia very hard' places where cancer rates are high. Many patients are surviving cancer treatment only to become addicted.
Thousands of people are suing Monsanto, claiming that its Roundup herbicide gave them cancer. A California judge has reduced the first damage award but let the verdict against Monsanto stand.
The participants who chose more organically grown foods over 4.5 years had slightly lower rates of cancer. But it doesn't necessarily mean one thing caused the other.
New research suggests people who eat organic plant foods have a reduction in risk of common cancers.
When it comes to treating cancer, focus for decades has been on killing the fastest growing cells. New research finds that this approach may be too simple.
Harmful pesticides have been found in the widely consumed sharptooth catfish found in a river that runs through Johannesburg.
Men, who are arguably the least risk-aware when it comes to breast cancer, are largely overlooked in awareness material, and remain ill-informed.
According to most physicists, there is no safe dose of radiation. So why would the EPA consider saying otherwise? Who stands to gain if the EPA declares low-dose radiation harmless?
We have no reliable way of knowing which patients' cancer will return after surgery, so often chemotherapy is given to mop up any remaining cancer cells that may have gone undetected.
The unique way that human proteins change after they are copied from our DNA gives scientists clues about what causes human disease.
A US court recently ruled the weed killer Roundup contributed to a former gardener's cancer. Juries don't decide science. The weight of evidence shows Roundup has little association with cancer.
As we age, our DNA accumulates damage, which can increase our risk of developing
cancer. But our cells work hard to guard against cancer – new research explains how.
James Allison and Tasuku Honjo won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for encouraging immune cells to attack cancer. See how their work has revolutionized cancer therapies and medicine.
In a remarkably short period of time, drugs that harness the power of the immune system, have been used to successfully treat many cancers.
Allison and Honjo discovered how inhibiting the brakes in our immune systems can be used to treat cancer.
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Director, University of South Australia Cancer Research institute, University of South Australia
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Nial Wheate is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor | Program Director, Undergraduate Pharmacy, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Professor, School of Psychology, Curtin University and College of Health and Medicine, Australian National Univerity. CEO, Public Health Association of Australia, Public Health Association Australia
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Professor, School of Medicine, University of Connecticut
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Associate professor, UNSW
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Graduate Student in Cancer Systems Biology, Rice University
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Honorary Adjunct Associate Professor, Bond University
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Professor of Oncology, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Health Psychology, University of Wollongong
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Lancaster University
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Senior Research Fellow, Cancer Council Queensland
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Head of Urology at Monash Medical Centre and Associate Professor of Surgery, Monash University
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Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Australian Medical Doctor; Fellow in Global Health & NCDs, University of Copenhagen
