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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study suggests that firefighters face higher-than-average risks of several types of cancer, adding to evidence that the job carries hazards beyond the fires themselves.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women with large bellies may die earlier of heart disease and cancer than other women, regardless of their weight, a large U.S. study suggests.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For the first time, researchers have evidence of an association between renal cell carcinoma and multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer, one that "cannot be explained by random incidence alone," they say.

LONDON (Reuters) - Obesity can double the risk of several cancers, according to a study published on Friday that for the first time also links being overweight with a number of less common forms of the disease.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients with small kidney tumors are more likely to have "radical nephrectomy" (i.e., complete surgical removal of the affected kidney) than partial nephrectomy, despite evidence showing that the two approaches are equally effective, new research shows.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fifteen percent of patients who took Sutent, a pill used to treat kidney and stomach cancers, developed heart failure, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The kidney cancer pill Nexava, know generically as sorafenib, has shown promise in treating a small number of people with a type of blood cancer known as acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Bayer AG and Onyx Pharmaceutical Inc.'s key cancer drug Nexavar significantly raises the risk of high blood pressure, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Coffee and tea lovers may have a slightly reduced risk of developing kidney cancer, research hints.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc's cancer drug Sutent may have toxic effects on the heart, U.S. researchers said Thursday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Postmenopausal women who are overweight or obese appear to have a greater risk of developing, renal cell carcinoma, a common form of kidney cancer, and study findings suggest that a larger waist girth and a history of weight loss and regain further increase this risk.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - There are disparities in the treatment and outcome between older black and white patients who have renal cell cancer, with blacks having significantly lower survival rates, according to a new study.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A late-stage clinical liver cancer trial with Nexavar in the Asia-Pacific region was halted so patients could get the drug sooner after encouraging results, said Bayer and Onyx Pharmaceuticals.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Alcohol consumption may lower the risk of developing kidney cancer, according to a report in the British Journal of Cancer.

WASHINGTON (Reuters Life!) - A new presidential report on cancer takes on not only tobacco companies but the food industry while calling on the federal government to "cease being a purveyor of unhealthy foods" and switch to policies that encourage Americans to eat vegetables and exercise.

LONDON (Reuters) - Holidaymakers were warned on Thursday to protect themselves in the sun and avoid getting burnt after figures revealed skin cancer has become the fastest growing form of cancer in Britain.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients with kidney cancer who are poor candidates for surgery can be treated using a less invasive alternative, according to a study conducted at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

LONDON (Reuters) - Children with cancer in Britain do not live as long as those with the disease in other European countries, according to British researchers who urged politicians to invest more to address the problem.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A drug already used to treat kidney cancer became the first medicine to extend the life of patients with advanced liver cancer in a clinical trial, adding about 3 months to survival compared to a placebo, according to a study released on Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients who are treated with radioactive iodine for an over active thyroid, a condition also referred to as hyperthyroidism, have an increased risk of cancer -- especially cancers of the stomach, kidney, and breast -- according to the results of a study published in the medical journal Cancer.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators on Wednesday approved Wyeth's drug Torisel for patients with an advanced form of kidney cancer called renal cell carcinoma, saying it helped them live longer.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Oncophage, a vaccine that failed to prevent the recurrence of kidney cancer in a late-stage clinical trial last year, shows promise as a treatment for brain cancer, researchers said on Monday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Children with advanced kidney cancer may suffer fewer long-term side effects and need less treatment if they are given chemotherapy to shrink their tumour before surgery, researchers said on Tuesday.