by Kathleen Doheny healthday Reporter – Fri Jan 9, 11:48 pm ET

Since ancient times, eating garlic has been credited with many medical benefits, including fighting viruses, bacteria and cancer as well as lowering cholesterol.
But a new review finds that the evidence linking garlic to a reduced risk for many cancers [...]

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ATLANTA – Cancer will overtake heart disease as the world’s top killer by 2010, part of a trend that should more than double global cancer cases and deaths by 2030, international health experts said in a report released Tuesday. Rising tobacco use in developing countries is believed to be a huge reason for the shift, [...]

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For the first time since researchers began reporting national data on cancer, the statistics in a new report show that the rate of newly diagnosed cancers is declining in America; at the same time, the death rate for all cancers combined continues to fall.
“It’s a validation of the efforts we are making in the fight [...]

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