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- and | { Thats the reason | post-menopausal | estrogen } | is\n\
- given together with another hormone called\n\
- progestin: The combination lowers the risk of\n\
- endometrial cancer.\n\
- \n\
- But the NTP advisers said putting all\n\
- estrogens on the federal list would help\n\
- women trying to balance the benefits and\n\
- risks when choosing hormone therapy.\n\
- Physicians never discuss any of these risks\n\
- when they are prescribing hormone therapy.\n\
- They only discuss benefits. Listing might\n\
- force it on the table, Michelle Medinsky, a\n\
- toxicologist from Durham, N.C., said before\n\
- the vote.\n\
- \n\
- The committee of scientists advises the NTP,\n\
- a branch of the National Institutes of Health\n\
- that every two years updates the federal list\n\
- of proven and suspected cancer-causing\n\
- substances.\n\
- \n\
- The NTP typically follows its advisers\n\
- recommendations, but an officially updated\n\
- carcinogen list isnt expected until 2002.\n\
- \n\
- Thursday, after a daylong debate, the panel\n\
- declined to add talc powder to the list,\n\
- saying there wasnt enough evidence linking\n\
- its use in feminine hygiene products to\n\
- ovarian cancer. The panel deadlocked over\n\
- whether to a second type of talc, fibrous\n\
- talc that some studies have linked to lung\n\
- cancer in talc miners.\n\
- \n\
- On Wednesday, the panel voted to add\n\
- ultraviolet radiation -- those\n\
- sunburn-causing rays long known to cause skin\n\
- cancer -- to the official carcinogen list.\n\
- \n\
- The panel on Friday continued debating an\n\
- association between cancers of the nose and\n\
- sinuses with industrial exposure to wood\n\
- dust.\n\
- \n\
- Talc has long been controversial. When\n\
- studies first appeared suggesting it migrated\n\
- into the ovaries to cause tumors, many\n\
- feminine hygiene products replaced talc with\n\
- cornstarch.\n\
- \n\
- Panelist Medinsky said she had been prepared\n\
- to list talc powder as reasonably believed\n\
- to cause cancer. But after listening to\n\
- hours of industry attacks on the science,\n\
- the evidence has knocked me out of the\n\
- reasonably category into not list, she\n\
- said before the panel voted 7-3 against\n\
- listing talc.\n\
- \n\
- Talc has long been controversial. When\n\
- studies first appeared suggesting it migrated\n\
- into the ovaries to cause tumors, many\n\
- feminine hygiene products replaced talc with\n\
- cornstarch.\n\
- \n\
- Panelist Medinsky said she had been prepared\n\
- to list talc powder as reasonably believed\n\
- to cause cancer. But after listening to\n\
- hours of industry attacks on the science,\n\
- the evidence has knocked me out of the\n\
- reasonably category into not list, she\n\
- said before the panel voted 7-3 against\n\
- listing talc.\n\
- \n\
- Talc in one form or the other can be found in\n\
- many papers, paints, ceramics, food wrappers,\n\
- hard candy, chewing gum, cosmetics and pills.\n\
- Most people are familiar with talc as a loose\n\
- powder used in cosmetics and as a drying\n\
- powder.\n\
- \n\
- Industry officials also attacked studies that\n\
- showed increased lung cancer in talc miners\n\
- in New York State and questioned an\n\
- experiment that showed that rats breathing\n\
- high concentrations of talc got lung cancer.\n\
- \n\
- Higher lung-cancer rates in talc miners may\n\
- have resulted from their smoking or from the\n\
- presence of radon gas in the mines or\n\
- asbestos in soils nearby, industry officials\n\
- said.\n\
- \n\
- The scientific advisers then deadlocked on\n\
- whether this second type of talc, fibrous\n\
- talc, caused lung cancer, voting 5-5 on\n\
- adding it to the carcinogen list.\n\
- \n\
- UV light, however, was a no-brainer for the\n\
- panel, which voted unanimously that it was a\n\
- known human carcinogen.\n\
- \n\
- UV radiation is not visible, but it is felt\n\
- as heat and can damage the eyes and skin. It\n\
- comes in three forms, ranging from the\n\
- relatively long-wavelength UVA to the\n\
- shortest wavelength UVC. UVA accounts for\n\
- most of the solar UV radiation because it is\n\
- not absorbed by the atmosphere. UVB is mostly\n\
- absorbed by the ozone layer and UVC is\n\
- totally absorbed.\n\
- \n\
- All three are produced by mercury arc sun\n\
- lamps, while other lamps that simulate\n\
- sunlight produce primarily UVA.\n\
- \n\
- SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Botanists have\n\
- found a stand of living fossil trees from\n\
- a species dating back to prehistoric times in\n\
- the dense rainforests north of Sydney,\n\
- authorities said Friday.\n\
- \n\
- About 20 mature trees found in the Nightcap\n\
- Range about 400 miles north of Sydney bear\n\
- nuts similar in structure to those discovered\n\
- in fossilized form in 1875 by botanist Baron\n\
- Ferdinand von Mueller.\n\
- \n\
- It gives us another small paragraph or a\n\
- page of the insight into the evolution of\n\
- flowering plants and the incredible changes \n\
- that have occurred on this continent through\n\
- enormous periods of time, said botanist\n\
- Peter Kooyman, who discovered the trees in\n\
- August.\n\
- \n\
- The exact location is being kept secret to\n\
- protect the trees, state environment minister\n\
- Bob Debus said.\n\
- \n\
- Kooyman sent details of his find to Sydneys\n\
- Royal Botanic Gardens, which identified the\n\
- rainforests which once covered the ancient \n\
- super-continent of Gondwanaland -- now\n\
- Australia, Africa, South America and New\n\
- Zealand, Debus said.\n\
- \n\
- The biggest of the newly discovered trees is\n\
- at least 120 feet tall and has beautiful,\n\
- primitive and messy flowers with a scent\n\
- similar to aniseed, Kooyman said.\n\
- \n\
- A similar discovery was made in the Blue\n\
- Mountains west of Sydney in 1994, when\n\
- botanists discovered a stand of living fossil\n\
- trees known as the Wollemi Pines.\n\
- \n\
- provocative Turkish \n\
- study suggests that \n\
- using honey as an \n\
- ointment during a \n\
- certain type of \n\
- colon-cancer surgery\n\
- can help prevent tumors \n\
- from recurring. \n\
- \n\
- While the research was \n\
- done in mice and no one \n\
- expects hospitals t\n\
- start stocking \n\
- operating rooms with \n\
- honey jars, honey has \n\
- been used as a folk \n\
- remedy for healing \n\
- since biblical times\n\
- \n\
- And a Mayo Clinic \n\
- cancer expert said the \n\
- results, though \n\
- preliminary, are too \n\
- fascinating to be \n\
- dismissed. \n\
- \n\
- The research was aimed \n\
- at improving the safety \n\
- of laparoscopic \n\
- surgery, an\n\
- increasingly popular technique that involves\n\
- tiny keyhole incisions and skinny\n\
- instruments.\n\
- \n\
- Enthusiasm for the technique has been\n\
- tempered by some reports that laparoscopy for\n\
- colon cancer can itself cause tumors to\n\
- develop in the abdominal wall, along the path\n\
- the surgical instruments took.\n\
- \n\
- The Turkish researchers suggest honey might\n\
- work as a barrier to tumor cells when it is\n\
- spread in the incisions. The findings, based\n\
- on a study of 60 mice, were published in\n\
- Decembers issue of the Archives of Surgery.\n\
- \n\
- Dr. Tonia Young-Fadok, a Mayo Clinic surgeon\n\
- participating in a U.S. study on whether\n\
- laparoscopic surgery for colon cancer can\n\
- cause new tumors, said substances in honey\n\
- might actually help dissolve tumor cells.\n\
- \n\
- Its not clear what the power of honey is,\n\
- but theres certainly something here thats\n\
- of interest, Young-Fadok said.\n\
- \n\
- Laparoscopies are being used increasingly to\n\
- treat a variety of conditions that formerly\n\
- required major operations. Skinny instruments\n\
- and a slender viewing tube called a\n\
- laparoscope are inserted through tiny\n\
- incisions. Carbon dioxide gas is injected\n\
- into the body cavity to cause the abdomen to\n\
- swell, creating a work space for surgeons.\n\
- \n\
- Colon tumors are essentially the only type of\n\
- cancer for which doctors use laparoscopy.\n\
- \n\
- Some theorize that the gas might cause cancer\n\
- cells to shift location and form tumors.\n\
- Others suggest that inexperienced surgeons\n\
- might inadvertently cause malignant cells to\n\
- implant as they extract the tumor.\n\
- \n\
- Young-Fadok said some research has found that\n\
- tumors occur in less than 1 percent of cases\n\
- and that when the laparoscopy is done by\n\
- experienced surgeons, the risk is essentially\n\
- zero.\n\
- \n\
- In the Turkish study, led by Dr. Ismail\n\
- Hamzaoglu of Istanbul University, researchers\n\
- injected the mice with air, made neck\n\
- incisions and injected the animals with tumor\n\
- cells. The researchers spread honey inside\n\
- the incisions in one group of mice before and\n\
- after the injections.\n\
- \n\
- All 30 mice without honey developed tumors,\n\
- compared with only eight of the 30\n\
- honey-treated mice.\n\
- \n\
- In a commentary accompanying the study,\n\
- Chicago plastic surgeon Dr. Thomas Mustoe\n\
- noted that other research has suggested honey\n\
- has anti-bacterial properties and may be an\n\
- effective treatment for burns.\n\
- \n\
- The study highlights another potential\n\
- use, Mustoe said.\n\
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