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Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer
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Prostate cancer is such a slowly evolving disease that older patients may require no treatment because the risk of death from other causes is greater than that of prostate cancer itself.
You are likely to know that smoking causes a dramatic increase in your chance of developing lung and other cancers, heart disease, and respiratory illnesses such as emphysema.
Smoking is known to be the cause of lung, throat and colon cancers and cardiac and respiratory diseases.
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Zhang Xian Qian,
Ex-Olympic Swimmer
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Prostate cancer is already the number-two cause of death among male cancer patients in the United States after lung cancer, but ranks only ninth in Japan, where it accounts for only four percent of such deaths compared to 20 percent in the West.
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Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator
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It is an irrefutable fact that smoking cigarettes and using other tobacco products causes cancer and often results in other debilitating illnesses and death.
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Tony Howell,
Skateboarder
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It is hard to find out whether marijuana alone causes cancer because many people who smoke marijuana also smoke cigarettes and use other drugs.
It is estimated that exposure to a partner who smokes at home causes about 12 new cases of lung cancer and 11 deaths from lung cancer each year in people who have never smoked.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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There is supporting evidence from experimental studies of animals that confirm radon as a cause of lung cancer and from molecular and cellular studies that provide an understanding of the mechanisms by which radon causes lung cancer.
Other causes of breast cancer may be related to defects in the immune system or genetic mutations.
There is an overwhelming medical and scientific consensus that tobacco use causes lung and other cancers, heart disease, emphysema and other serious diseases in tobacco users.
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David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist
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UVB radiation causes the characteristic redness of a sunburn and is associated with many skin cancers.
If Ovarian Cancer is suspected there are a number of tests that can be performed to help the doctor decide whether symptoms are due to Ovarian Cancer or to other causes.
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