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What's more important: finding a cure for cancer or helping those who already have it? The American Cancer Society is trying to do both - and more. The cancer society also strives to educate people...
(HealthDay News) -- If you've been diagnosed with cancer, it's a difficult task to inform friends and family.
OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 27 (UPI) -- A new class of agents found in soy may prevent or even treat cancer, U.S. scientists suggest.
NASHVILLE, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- The cancer drug cetuximab has proved effective against Menetrier's disease, a rare stomach disorder, researchers in Tennessee found.
November is Pancreatic Cancer Awareness month. The National Cancer Institute reports, out of the more than 42,000 new cases of the disease reported this year, more than 35,000 die.
The American Cancer Society and its volunteers are starting a new support group in the Montgomery area called TOUCH, which stands for "Today Our Understanding of Cancer is Hope." It is a general support group for any patient or family member touched by any type of the disease.
CALDWELL – The American Cancer Society is looking for volunteers and teams for Caldwell’s first-ever Relay For Life to be held in May, 2010 at James Caldwell High School.
The Cancer Support Center in Homewood and Mokena offer thefollowing free classes in December. For more information aboutongoing programs, such as yoga, meditation and support groups orindividual counseling, please visitwww.CancerSupportCenter.org.
SubComdTaco writes "Harvard has announced their approach towards an implantable cancer vaccine (press release here). To anyone familiar with how the immune system works, this appears to be a synthetic lymph node, an intriguing bit of biomimicry. From the Science Daily article: 'A cancer vaccine carried into the body on a carefully engineered, fingernail-sized implant is the first to successfully ...
Dr. Charles has the state of the art cancer center in Melbourne, and six others in Brevard and Indian River counties just like it.
(HealthDay News) -- If you've been diagnosed with cancer, it's a difficult task to inform friends and family. Compose a list of people you want to tell yourself, and other people you want them to notify for you. Also, jot down thoughts about how you'd like to begin, and what you want to share.
The past nine months have seen nearly 350 St. Vincent Healthcare cancer patients having their battle with the disease eased by a patient navigator.
Relay For Life is sponsoring a "fun"draiser by placing the cancer grinch in yards around La Junta. Find out what to do if the cancer grinch appears in your yard.
DURHAM, N.C., Nov. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Cromoz Inc., located in Research Triangle Park, will initiate water-soluble carbon nanotube-based cancer drug delivery system in Hyderabad, India.
Twelve year old Tyler Williams dreams of being a marine biologist. That dream and his life are likely to be cut short by a vicious form of brain cancer. But Marineland, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and the Georgia Aquarium made his dream come true.
SANDPOINT, Idaho. - A lifelong Sandpoint resident who is battling cancer and can no longer afford his medical expenses is going to get a little help from his neighbors. The northern Idaho community is organizing a benefit on Saturday for 55-year-old Buff Johnson, whose medical bills have exceeded his insurance coverage.
ROANOKE RAPIDS — New guidelines regarding mammography and self-examinations for breast cancer detection have stirred up controversy nationwide. While a government panel believes detection efforts may be delayed from current recommendations, local cancer survivors and educational specialists believe there was nothing wrong with the old ways of doing things and call the new approach “appalling.”
For those individuals that are battling cancer, it is a remarkably difficult burden to bear. But those who are fighting the battle and do not have the financial resources to wage an effective war it...
Long-term survivors of testicular cancer who were treated with cisplatin-based chemotherapy had more severe side effects, including neurological side effects and Raynaud-like phenomena, than men who were not treated with chemotherapy, according to a new study published online November 25 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.Marianne Brydøy, M.D., of the Department of Oncology ...
Mixed flowers adorned violet-colored tables with an assortment of delectable foods, setting the ambiance for the “Celebration of Life” event for cancer survivors at the Queens Cancer Center at Queens Hospital Center (QHC).
Researchers have found evidence of a statistically significant survival benefit from adjuvant tamoxifen among patients whose estrogen receptor (ER)-positive tumors had high levels of phosphorylation of ER-alpha; at serine-118 (ER-alpha S118-P), according to a brief communication published online November 25 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.Approximately 50% of breast carcinomas ...
