Cancer controversies - A to Z

Cancer controversies is a sub-category of Causes of cancer and Preventing cancer

• 'Superfoods' and cancer
• Can alcohol be good for you?
• Deodorants and cancer
• Hormones in our environment - do they affect our risk of cancer?
• Is the research published? If so, where?
• Look for controls
• Mobile phones and cancer
• Plastic bottles
• Science fact or science fiction?
• Still early days
• Talcum powder and cancer
• Understanding risk
• Who funded it?

• Air travel and cancer
• Cosmetics and cancer
• Hair dyes and cancer
• How does science work?
• Look at the numbers
• Medical x-rays and cancer
• Pesticides and cancer
• Power lines and cancer
• Shift work and cancer
• Stress and cancer
• Top tips for reading science stories
• Weird, wacky and wonderful

• News story: 'No link' between using mobile phones and brain tumours
  20 October 2011
• News story: Early baldness and lower risk of prostate cancer link 'not conclusive'
  17 March 2010
• News story: Study finds isolation and stress may increase breast cancer risk in rats
  8 December 2009
• News story: 'No convincing evidence' for benefits of homeopathy in cancer treatment
  15 April 2009
• Press Release: Charity launches blog to bust cancer myths
  9 May 2008
• News story: Caution urged over mandarin liver cancer link
  12 September 2006
• News story: Research suggests no breast implant cancer link
  21 April 2006

• News story: More research needed on whether blood pressure drugs affect cancer risk
  14 June 2010
• News story: "Too big a leap" to conclude that rhubarb can protect against cancer, says Cancer Research UK
  16 February 2010
• News story: Mobile phone use 'not linked to brain tumours'
  4 December 2009
• News story: Cancer Research UK plays down 'inconsistent' evidence for mouthwash cancer link
  14 January 2009
• News story: Electromagnetic fields 'do not increase cancer risk' among energy workers
  3 May 2007
• News story: Early-stage testing credits pomegranate juice with cancer benefits
  1 July 2006

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