Among the food additives suspected of causing cancer is sodium nitrate, a chemical used to preserve and give color to red meat. Research indicates that the actual carcinogen is not sodium nitrate but nitrosamines, substances formed when the body digests the sodium nitrates. Sodium nitrate has not been banned, primarily because it kills the bacterium [...]

The possibility of having fits is a frightening one I know, but they are not as bad as they look. They are not painful, they usually last only a few minutes, and you are not likely to die while having one. A fit happens when part or all of the brain becomes abnormally irritable. If [...]

In this operation an ellipse of skin is taken from around the cancer and the nipple. The incision used tends to be in line with the nipple and wherever the cancer is. So if the cancer is in the upper outer quadrant, as is usually the case, the skin ellipse is usually in an oblique [...]