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Smoking
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in Ontario
for both men and women.
An estimated 5,900 men and women in Ontario are expected
to die of lung cancer this year. On average, lung cancer,
the most preventable of all cancers, will kill 113 people
a week in Ontario. It will kill more women than breast cancer
and more men than prostate cancer. And those rates aren't
likely to go down given that teen smoking is on the rise.
We know that smoking is the number one preventable cause
of cancer. And we've heard for years what it does to your
lungs. This week we're
going to show you. Here's Dr. Paul Caldwell.
Next Week...
Worms in our Bodies
We don't often issue a warning before Medicine
101, but next week Cobourg’s family physician, Dr.
Paul Caldwell teaches us about Worms. Not the kind you unearth
in the lawn, but the kinds that can grows inside us. Tapeworms,
ringworms and roundworms next week on Medicine 101.
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Your
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November
26
Adult
Attention Deficit Disorder
What do Alexander Graham Bell, Winston Churchill and Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart have in common? Well they all exhibited symptoms
of ADD – Attention Deficit Disorder.
It's a condition we usually think of in children, but more
and more adults are being diagnosed with it. While some
will struggle all their lives with the symptoms, we learn
from Ontario's award-winning producer/director Rick Green
who turned A.D.D. to his creative advantage
Buckman – Cancer Causing Realities
Studio I/V
Last week we talked about all the things that people believe
cause cancer and don't - charred food on the B.B.Q. cell
phones, heated plastic wrap and saccharine. This week we're
going to talk to our contributing medical editor and oncologist
Dr. Robert Buckman, from Toronto's Sunnybrook and Women's
College Health Sciences Centre, about the cancer worries
that may be legitimate, and what’s not.
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Teenage
Girls Risking Osteoporosis
If you thought only the elderly needed to worry about brittle
bones, think again. For most teenaged girls, staying thin
is far more important than healthy bones. More than eighty
percent of Canadian girls under the age of 18 are on a diet
And that means growing bones are not getting the nutrients
they need at the most critical time. We learn from Rheumatologist,
Dr. Gillian Hawker of Sunnybrook and Women’s College
Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, that poor eating habits,
smoking and drinking too much diet pop is putting teenaged
girls at risk of prematurely developing Osteoporosis.
Disciplining Doctors
In Ontario If you've got a complaint against your doctor,
you have to go to the College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Surgeons.
Because if any of the 23,000 doctors in this province make
a mistake, it's the College that hands out the discipline.
But critics say the College is more interested in protecting
doctors than the public.
Dr. Graeme Cunningham knows about the criticism and he wants
to contribute to changing the way the College does business.
He’s in a good position to do that as he has just
been appointed the new President of the College of Physicians
and Surgeons in Ontario.
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