cancer

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If you have at least three of these risk factors, you have higher chance of developing heart disease, diabetes, and certain cancers.

From Barron's • Jun. 27, 2026

NHS England said the risk of overdiagnosis increases with age, external, meaning some cancers detected may never cause harm.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2026

These therapies have produced major benefits in several cancers, including liver, lung, kidney, and bladder cancers, as well as melanoma.

From Science Daily • Jun. 25, 2026

Since then, he and roughly 170,000 other users have been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and related cancers associated with extended exposure to glyphosate, Roundup’s key ingredient and a probable carcinogen.

From Slate • Jun. 25, 2026

Tally thought of the lesions on Shay’s brain, the tiny cancers or wounds or whatever they were, that she didn’t even know she had.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld