Cancer Diagnosis News for 06/09/2009



Cancer patients should beware supplement use (AP via Yahoo! News)
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60 pct of cancer patients try nontraditional med (AP via Yahoo! News)
With much of her lower body consumed by cancer, Leslee Flasch finally faced the truth: The herbal supplements and special diet were not working...

Novel Mechanism Controlling Tumor Growth In The Brain Uncovered - Science Daily (press release)

Novel Mechanism Controlling Tumor Growth In The Brain Uncovered
Science Daily (press release)
The study was supported by The National Institutes of Health, the University of California Breast Cancer Research Program, SG Komen, and the Government of Sweden. . Activation of Tumor Cell Integrin %u03B1v%u03B23 Controls Angiogenesis And Metastatic .
New mechanism controlling tumour growth in the brain uncovered SINDH TODAY
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Diet, Soy & Breast Cancer Risk :: MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter .
Urban, Professional, Sophisticated, Libertarian and Conservative News and Commentary since 2001. Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory...

Cancer hospital to get back 6.5m (BBC News)
The Christie cancer hospital in Manchester is to get back 6.5m it lost when the an Icelandic bank collapsed...

Women are underrepresented in cancer studies, according to new .
Although women get most kinds of cancer just about as much as men do, they're still not participating in clinical studies as often, reports a new study published online today in the journal Cancer. The study analyzed participants in 661 ...

Still Too Few Women in Cancer Trials - Atlanta Journal Constitution

Scientific American

Still Too Few Women in Cancer Trials
Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA
MONDAY, June 8 (healthday News) -- Women are underrepresented in clinical cancer research published in the world's most influential medical journals, a new study says. The findings raise concerns that scientists aren't learning all they can about .
Women Underrepresented in Cancer Research Ivanhoe
U of M Study: Women Under Represented in Cancer Research Michigan Radio
Women underrepresented in most cancer research EurekAlert (press release)
MedPage Today - Science Daily (press release)
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Soldiers Save Pull Tabs for Cancer Research - Systems

Soldiers Save Pull Tabs for Cancer Research
Systems, GA
"I decided to start this because my aunt passed away in 2007 from cancer, and I thought this would be a great opportunity to try to help the research for cancer," Law said. "My personal goal is to help raise funds for cancer research and awareness. .
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60% of cancer patients try nontraditional medicines, supplements (USA Today)
Some people who try unproven remedies risk only money. But people with cancer can lose their only chance of beating the disease by skipping conventional treatment or by mixing in other therapies. Even harmless-sounding vitamins and "natural" supplements can interfere with cancer medicines or affect hormones that help cancer grow...

Women under-represented in most cancer research | Science Blog
Women continue to be under-enrolled in cancer clinical trials, according to a new review, published in the July 15, 2009 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The study's results suggest that greater ...

Ocean Mist Farms raises money for cancer research - The Packer

Ocean Mist Farms raises money for cancer research
The Packer, KS
Ocean Mist Farms raised more than $15000 for this year's American Cancer Society Relay for Life held May 30. More than 40 employees for the Castroville, Calif.- base company raised the money from 300 individual donors, according to a news release. .
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Area families head to DC to protect cancer research funding - Long Beach Press-Telegram

Area families head to DC to protect cancer research funding
Long Beach Press-Telegram, CA
By Andrew Shortall, Staff Writer On June 22-23, more than 400 families are taking a trip to Washington DC to ensure Congress protects the $150 million they appropriated to childhood cancer research last year. President Bush signed the Caroline Pryce .
G-Braves and Allgood Partner to Knock Childhood Cancer Out of the Park OurSports Central (press release)
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Rise Seen in Colorectal Cancer in Under-50 Adults (Update2) (Bloomberg)
June 8 (Bloomberg) -- Colorectal cancer rates are rising in adults younger than 50 with the biggest jump, more than 5 percent, recorded in those ages 20 to 29, a study found...

Gene test for lung cancer - health - national | Stuff.co.nz
Mr Conlon, 67, a former smoker, says he owes his life to a genetic swab, which indicated he was at risk of lung cancer. A suspicious nodule on his lungs has not changed, but he plans to keep up regular testing. ...

Singer-songwriter Kenny Rankin dead of lung cancer (AP via Yahoo! News)
Kenny Rankin, a brilliant pop vocalist and highly regarded musician-songwriter whose stylings ranged from jazz to pop to the world music influences he picked up as a child in New York, has died of complications related to lung cancer, his record company announced Monday. He was 69...

CancerCare of Maine celebrates life with Cancer Survivor Day .
EURśWhen I got the test results back, I felt like everyone else,EURť said cancer patient Larry Beauregard, a research geneticist who works on hereditary cancer predisposition. EURśI thought, 'My gosh, I have cancer. How are we going to deal with ...

Colorectal Cancer Rates Rising for Under 50 Set (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
MONDAY, June 8 (HealthDay News) -- Despite a steady decline in colorectal cancer rates in the United States in the past two decades, new research indicates that the disease is actually on the upswing among people younger than 50...

Young Adult Colorectal Cancer Rates Rising : Blisstree - Family .
Screening played a large role in colorectal cancer prevention and detection, which helped lower the numbers. Colonoscopies can detect polyps, overgrowth of tissue, that can become cancerous. If they're detected and removed through ...

Buckdog: Canadians Dying Of Cancer .. 'Sexy'!!
Canadians Dying Of Cancer .. 'Sexy'!! "OTTAWA EUR” Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt called the medical isotopes crisis "sexy," said she wanted to take credit for fixing it, and expressed doubts about the skills of Health Minister ...

Concern About Antioxidants and Breast Cancer - New York Times

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Concern About Antioxidants and Breast Cancer
New York Times, United States
The rate of vitamin use is higher among cancer patients than in the general population. Last year, researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle reviewed 32 studies conducted between 1999 and 2006 and found that 64 percent to 81 .
Video: AustinHealth: Breast antioxidant KXAN.com
Being Treated for Cancer? Skip the Antioxidant Supplements U.S. News & World Report
Breast cancer charities €˜earn more by staying apart€„˘ Professional Fundraising
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Firefighters' cancer risk normal (ScienceAlert)
A study has found that cancer rates among Queensland's firefighters are no higher than in the state's general population...

Defeating nicotine's double role in lung cancer | Science Blog
Changes in genes encoding nicotine receptors are strongly associated not only with the tendency to smoke, but with susceptibility to lung cancer. Nicotine exposure also heightens the expression of the nicotine receptors, which leads to ...

Still Too Few Women in Cancer Trials (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
MONDAY, June 8 (HealthDay News) -- Women are underrepresented in clinical cancer research published in the world's most influential medical journals, a new study says...

Hopkins scientists picked for cancer dream teams - Johns Hopkins Gazette

Hopkins scientists picked for cancer dream teams
Johns Hopkins Gazette, MD
By Vanessa Wasta A TV industry- and celebrity-driven cancer research project has chosen scientists at Johns Hopkins for two of five multi-institutional "dream teams" financed by Stand Up to Cancer grants totaling more than $6 million. .
JHU, Partners Launch Research Means Hope Campaign Johns Hopkins Gazette
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Singer-songwriter Kenny Rankin dies of lung cancer (AP via Yahoo! News)
A spokesman for Kenny Rankin's record label says the veteran singer-songwriter has died of lung cancer. He was 67...

Excel Golf joins ESPNChicago golf event to benefit cancer research - WorldGolf.com

Excel Golf joins ESPNChicago golf event to benefit cancer research
WorldGolf.com, AZ
The outing will benefit the Jimmy V Foundation for Cancer Research which will receive all proceeds from foursomes and the event's silent auction. This year, the ESPNChicago.com Golf Outing will be held on Monday, June 22nd at Stonewall Orchard Golf .
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AstraZeneca, Cancer Research UK Fund $8.9M Cancer Rx Project with . - GenomeWeb Daily News

AstraZeneca, Cancer Research UK Fund $8.9M Cancer Rx Project with .
GenomeWeb Daily News, NY
By Ben Butkus Cancer Research Technology, the tech-transfer company of research charity Cancer Research UK, said yesterday that it has forged a 5.6 million ($8.9 million) partnership with the Institute of Cancer Research and British drugs giant .
AstraZeneca joins anti-cancer project Telegraph.co.uk
AstraZeneca Teams Up with UK Cancer Institutes to Target Molecular . Genetic Engineering News (press release)
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Concern About Antioxidants and Breast Cancer - Well Blog - NYTimes.com
The report, published in the July issue of the medical journal Cancer, is the latest to raise concerns about the large number of cancer patients turning to megadoses of vitamin and mineral supplements in hopes of boosting their health. ...

'You'll try anything,' says cancer patient (AP via Yahoo! News)
As a criminal defense lawyer, Meg Gaines valued evidence. But as a 38-year-old mom with ovarian cancer that had spread to her liver, evidence took a back seat to emotion as she desperately sought a cure...

Too much may cause cancer; additional research suggested - Chicago Tribune

Too much may cause cancer; additional research suggested
Chicago Tribune, United States
"That's one thing consumers can really take home," says Marian Neuhouser, nutritional epidemiologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. "Not to get more than 1000 micrograms."
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