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| Hair Dye Increases Risk of Leukemia |  | The price of vanity in the modern, ever-changing era in which we live may be even higher than we can imagine. A study publish a short while ago warns men and women that using hair dye more than nine times a year increases by 60% the risk of developing chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, which is a form of cancer of the blood cells. The same study claims that women who dye their hair in darker shades of black, brown and red are 50 per ... [read more >>] | | 09 May 2008, 11:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Cause of Leukemia Has Been Discovered! |  | Leukemia is one of the main killer cancers in children. In the last 50 years, medical advance has boosted survival rate from 0 % to 90 %, but the aggressive chemotherapy comes with a high price caused by the secondary effects. Still, hope comes with a new research published in the journal Science and made on four-year-old twin girls from Bromley (Kent): researchers have detected rogue cells that trigger childhood leukemia, and this could t ... [read more >>] | | 18 January 2008, 04:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| YouTube Fights Against Leukemia |  | YouTube was recently the only hope for life for a N.H. woman diagnosed with leukemia. Leigh Buckley, a 32-year-old mother of two, fights against leukemia since January when the doctors diagnosed her with this deadly disease. Since the terrible announcement was confirmed, Leigh’s friends decided to organize two local bone marrow conferences to attract potential donors or helpers. Although they managed to gather more than 2.000 peo ... [read more >>] | | 28 March 2007, 06:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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