TUESDAY, June 10 (HealthDay News) -- Regardless of the cause, American men have a greater chance of dying then women, and smoking increases any adult's risk of death just as if five years were suddenly added to their age, according to new risk of death charts.

The charts, to be published in the June 10 online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute show an American's risk of dying from a given cause in the next 10 years. The charts are grouped by age, sex and smoking status.

Sen. Edward Kennedy is expected to be released from the hospital a week after undergoing surgery in North Carolina for brain cancer.

Rep. Patrick Kennedy tells The Providence Journal that his father will be released Monday from Duke University Medical Center and will head home to Hyannis Port on Cape Cod.

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned American consumers on Wednesday that it is looking into side effects of a class of arthritis drugs that could cause cancer in children.

The agency has taken to issuing alerts when it begins an investigation into reports of drug or medical-procedure problems, as it did last month with a smoking-cessation treatment that could lead to suicide.
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TUESDAY, June 3 (HealthDay News) -- A person's risk of cancer increases if he or she suffers from DNA-damaging chronic inflammation of the intestine or stomach, such as ulcerative colitis, according to scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Their findings, confirmed in two studies the researchers did on mice, were published in the June 2 online issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

MONDAY, June 2 (HealthDay News) -- Terminally ill black cancer patients are more likely than white patients to choose aggressive end-of-life care, according to researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

Their study included 231 white and 61 black patients with stage IV metastatic cancer who were interviewed when they entered the study. Patients were asked questions, such as, "Would you want the doctors here to do everything they can to keep you alive, even if you were going to die in a day or two?"

CHICAGO - A drug to prevent bone loss during breast cancer treatment also substantially cut the risk that the cancer would return, results that left doctors excited about a possible new way to fight the disease.

It is the first large study to affirm wider anti-cancer hopes for Zometa and other bone-building drugs called bisphosphonates. Zometa, made by Novartis AG, is used now for cancers that have already spread to the bone.

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Sunday June First is Cancer Survivor Day. Right in between Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Memorial Day, Proms, Weddings and Graduations is the little known outside of the world of cancer a holiday to celebrate survivorship. How appropriate. Cancer is the disease that can just occur in your busy life. Sandwiched between growing up, working on you career, enjoying your family and life, or expecting to retire, you are given the diagnosis of Cancer.