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Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer is Difficult
Actor Patrick Swayze recently died from pancreatic cancer, which has increased the public's curiosity about the deadly disease. You can find some resources here, here and here. One reason cancer is difficult to stop is it usually is not detected until it is too late. Dr. Jennifer Ashton explains in the clip below that early detection is difficult due to a lack of efficient screening for pancreatic cancer. A family history of pancreatic cancer can help encourage someone to watch for it. Smoking is also linked to pancreatic cancer.
Posted on September 20, 2009
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Britain Adds Graphic Labels to Cigarette Packs
 The image on the right is one of the new graphic images the UK is going to require on cigarette packs to deter people from smoking. You can see another image here which shows a man with what appears to be a horrible throat tumor.
The pictures, which show cancerous lungs and throats as well as rotting teeth, replace written warnings such as "Smoking clogs the arteries and causes heart attacks and strokes" or "Smoking can cause a slow and painful death" which currently greet going to light up.
The picture warnings will start appearing on cigarette packs from October 1 and will be compulsory from October next year. They will be printed on all tobacco products from October 2010.
One in six people in Britain smoke out of population of more than 60 million and the government has been stepping up measures to reduce that figure.
It's not something anyone wants to look at or see on a product they are using. It does make the message that smoking is unhealthy very clear. More discussion of the new labels can be found here, here, here and here.
Posted on October 2, 2008
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Many Heart Patients Don't Quit Smoking
A study has found that many heart patients that are smokers do not quit smoking after their illness. The BBC says the study was conducted on 5,500 patients in 15 countries. Of these heart patients 2,244 were smokers and 48% did not quit smoking when advised to. The BBC article says some experts wonder if the patients are really aware of the risk from smoking.
Dr Wilma Scholte op Reimer, of the Erasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, who led the study, said it was "unbelievable" so many carried on smoking after a life-threatening event for which the habit is a major risk factor.
"It makes me wonder if they are truly aware of the risk that they are taking," she said.
Dr Scholte op Reimer said there may be a difference between patients having the general knowledge that smoking is a bad habit, and understanding the risk they themselves faced.
She said it was important smokers had access to support from stopping-smoking programmes, and access to nicotine replacement therapies, if necessary.
Some of it could but unawareness on the patient's part but it also likely that the doctors are underestimating just how difficult it is for people to quit smoking. And those who have seen movies like The Insider know why smoking is so difficult to quit.
Posted on October 5, 2005
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