“Sharks don’t get cancer”, writes William Lane again and again, in books and articles. Ah, but they do, writes Christie Wilcox.
Tag: Cancer
Kill or cure? (What’s in The Mail)
Help to make sense of the Daily Mail’s ongoing effort to classify every inanimate object into those that cause cancer and those that prevent it. So writes Paul Battley, who compiled a long list. (Thanks to Metafilter for bringing this to our attention.)
Ingenious: Sleep on Wrong Side, Get Cancer
Today’s Ingenious Theory of the Week will excite most anyone who (1) hopes that electromagnetic waves of all frequencies cause cancer and/or (2) gets into bed on the wrong side: “Sleep on the right side—Get cancer on the left?“ Örjan Hallberg and Olle Johansson, Pathophysiology, vol. 17, no. 3, June 2010, pp. 157-60. The authors, […]
Coco the Colossal Colon
“Coco,” as the Colossal Colon is affectionately known, is a 40-foot long, 4-foot tall oversized model of the human colon that is designed to educate about colorectal cancer and other diseases of the colon. Visitors who crawl through the Colossal Colon will see Crohn’s disease, diverticulosis, ulcerative colitis, hemorrhoids, cancerous and non-cancerous polyps, and various […]