Health News: [cancer]

Sponsored Link Special Offer - Free Trial of Blockbuster.com Rent Movies from Blockbuster.com. Delivered Direct To Your Mailbox. Click here to start today. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, November 13, 2012 9:57 AM PST Your Health News Alert for [cancer] matched the following stories: ANI via Yahoo! India News, Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:09 PM PST Smacking kids raise their risk of cancer and heart diseases http://in.news.yahoo.com/smacking-kids-raise-risk-cancer-heart-diseases-060935074.html London, Nov 13 (ANI): Smacking children may put them at greater risk of cancer, heart disease and asthma later in life, a study has claimed. Reuters via Yahoo! Maktoob News, Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:12 PM PST Early end-of-life talks tied to less aggressive care: study http://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/early-end-life-talks-tied-less-aggressive-care-011252648.html Nov 13 (Reuters) - Terminally-ill cancer patients are lesslikely to get aggressive end-of-life treatment, such aschemotherapy in the last two weeks of life, when they talk withtheir doctors early on about how they want to die, according toa U.S. study. The analysis, which appeared in the Journal of ClinicalOncology, involved 1,231 people with advanced lung or coloncancer who died over a 14-month ... Reuters via Yahoo! Maktoob News, Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:12 PM PST Early end-of-life talks tied to less aggressive care http://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/early-end-life-talks-tied-less-aggressive-care-211217736.html NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Terminally-ill cancer patients are less likely to get aggressive end-of-life treatment, such as chemotherapy in the last two weeks of life, when they talk with their doctors early on about how they want to die, according to a new study. Treatment aimed at keeping those patients alive at the end is often expensive and may not improve patients' quality of life or ... Handbag.com via Yahoo! Maktoob News, Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:20 AM PST Need a reason to hit the gym? It might extend your life by 4.5 years http://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/need-reason-hit-gym-extend-life-4-5-192017823.html All the motivation you need to work out might be found a new study which says exercise can add around five years to your life expectancy. According to research from the National Cancer Institute, people who engaged in leisure-time physical activity as an adult were likely to increase their life span, regardless of body weight. Examining data on more than 650,000 adults, the researchers found ... See more health stories that match your keyword at: http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?fr=yalerts-health&c=&p=cancer+%2bcat%3ahealth&ei=utf-8 Visit Yahoo! Health: http://health.yahoo.com/ You received this email because you subscribed to Yahoo! Alerts. Use http://us.rd.yahoo.com/alerts/b/email/unsubscribe/*http://alerts.yahoo.com/unsubscribe.php?id=ZYd46tQuNLNY0DqcbTNHLj87kVUjB4Ok9FQmh.RqjVQNPztU5hzMo_FXpAcOHUd_3U39UU5pYJLVcLuwbx1KxMckWv7VPJ_RgDZG to unsubscribe from this alert. To change your communications preferences for other Yahoo! business lines, please visit your Marketing Preferences: http://login.yahoo.com/config/login_verify2?.done=http://subscribe.yahoo.com/showaccount . To learn more about Yahoo!'s use of personal information, please read our privacy policy at http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/ . Yahoo! is located at 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089.