Cancer Diagnosis News for 06/09/2009
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| Cancer patients should beware supplement use (AP via Yahoo! News) Does alternative medicine help cancer patients?.. | ||
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)
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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
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Soldiers Save Pull Tabs for Cancer Research - Systems
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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
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Area families head to DC to protect cancer research funding - Long Beach Press-Telegram
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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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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
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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
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AstraZeneca, Cancer Research UK Fund $8.9M Cancer Rx Project with . - GenomeWeb Daily News
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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
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