Four-country study finds no cancer link to cellphone usage
USA Today - Thu Dec 3, 11:34 pm ETA large new study is the latest to find no link between rising cellphone use and rates of brain cancer.
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Aggressive cancer therapy target ID'd
UPI - Wed Dec 2, 5:43 pm ETDALLAS, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've found a protein that normally suppresses the growth of cancer can also cause aggressive cancer growth after prolonged exposure.
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Volume CT for Diagnosis of Nodules Found in Lung-Cancer Screening
New England Journal of Medicine - Wed Dec 2, 5:53 pm ETLung cancer, the most lethal type of cancer, accounted for more than 159,000 deaths in 2009 in the United States alone,1 and the annual number of new cases is expected ...
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Maggie Daley Being Treated for Bone Cancer
Chicago Public Radio - Thu Dec 3, 7:14 am ETChicago First Lady Maggie Daley has begun radiation treatment for bone cancer. A statement from the mayor's office states she has a cancerous lesion progressing on her right leg. Doctors are advising the mayor's wife to use a wheelchair.
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Cigarette Smoking Increases Colorectal Cancer Risk
Newswise - Thu Dec 3, 1:19 am ET1) Long-term smoking associated with a 30 to 50 percent increased risk; 2) Avoiding smoking is one way to reduce colorectal cancer risk.
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CT Scan May Predict Colon Cancer Survival
MedicineNet.com - Wed Dec 2, 4:27 pm ETTitle: CT Scan May Predict Colon Cancer Survival Category: Health News Created: 12/1/2009 4:10:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 12/2/2009
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Jupiter Medical Center Adds New Breast Cancer Treatment; Multi-Lumen Mammosite(R) Targets
PR Newswire via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 3:19 pm ETJUPITER, Fla., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Women fighting breast cancer after a lumpectomy have a new weapon in the battle, now available at Jupiter Medical Center's Foshay Cancer Center. Today, the hospital began treating patients with the Multi-Lumen MammoSite(R) device, just approved in September by the FDA.
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Health department nets award for breast/cervical cancer control
Huron Daily Tribune - Thu Dec 3, 10:20 am ETBAD AXE — The Huron County Health Department received an award to acknowledge the work of staff involved with the Breast Cancer Cervical Cancer Control Program.
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Repeat negative CT scan for lung cancer does not encourage ex-smokers to resume the habit
EurekAlert! - Thu Dec 3, 12:23 am ET( American Association for Cancer Research ) Assurance of a cancer-free status did not prompt people participating in a long-term computerized tomography lung-cancer screening program to pick up their cigarettes again, researchers wrote in a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. The December issue contains a ...
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Bentley Styling and Design Art Project Raises £70,000 for The Christie Cancer Hospital in Manchester
The Auto Channel - Thu Dec 3, 6:18 am ETBOTANY, AUSTRALIA – December 3, 2009: An invitation-only gala auction of artworks by the men and women of Bentley’s design and styling team last night raised more than £70,000 for The Christie cancer hospital in Manchester.
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Cancer center gets approval to open
Worcester Telegram & Gazette - Fri Dec 4, 4:35 am ETSOUTHBRIDGE - The Cancer Center at Harrington received approval yesterday to treat patients and expects to do so immediately, the center said.
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Survivors fighting cancer with color
North Platte Telegraph - 2 hours 21 minutes agoThe North Platte Telegraph Battling cancer can be scary no matter what form it comes in. Yet one group of cancer survivors has learned that they can fight cancer together with a canvas and a little color - more specifically, watercolor.
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Cancer Resource Center offers free services
Eastern Arizona Courier - Thu Dec 3, 1:17 pm ETAn open house Nov. 12 at the American Cancer Society's Cancer Resource Center gave Gila Valley residents a chance to learn what services are available locally.
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High school wrestler fights cancer with team's support
News 14 Carolina - Thu Dec 3, 10:23 pm ETJustin Milton, nicknamed Meatball, is a junior on the wrestling team at Southeast Guilford High School. But due to a rare form of bone cancer, Milton must watch from the sidelines this season.
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Hopes high for MD Anderson Banner Cancer Center
The Arizona Republic - Thu Dec 3, 3:20 pm ETBuzz was big at the groundbreaking for MD Anderson Banner Cancer Center next to Banner Gateway in Gilbert.
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Elderly couple mugged at cancer center
Connecticut Post - Thu Dec 3, 4:47 pm ETDERBY -- Police are searching for a man who stole an elderly woman's handbag in an elevator at the Griffin Hospital Cancer Center earlier this week.The woman and her husband entered the center and
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Cancer victims honored
The Lonoke Democrat - Thu Dec 3, 2:42 pm ETLonoke Relay for Life held a candle-lighting event at the Lonoke County Courthouse steps on Sunday, because November is lung cancer awareness month.
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KTVN Channel 2 - Reno Tahoe News Weather, Video - Lung Cancer's Racial Gap Narrowing
KTVN Reno - Thu Dec 3, 9:36 am ETTHURSDAY, Dec. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Efforts to prevent teens from smoking have helped narrow the racial disparity in lung cancer incidence and death rates among adults in the United States, researchers say.
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Daley off her feet for latest cancer therapy
Chicago Sun-Times - Thu Dec 3, 5:15 am ETMaggie Daley, who has been battling metastatic breast cancer for the last seven years, is now using a wheelchair as she undergoes radiation treatment, the mayor's office said Wednesday night.Doctors advised Daley, 66, to stay off her feet while they target a cancerous lesion on the bone of her lower right leg, according to a statement."We want to minimize weight bearing on the leg until the ...
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Random DNA Mix-Ups Not So Random in Cancer Development
Newswise - Thu Dec 3, 1:49 pm ETResearchers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine have pinpointed a mechanism that may help explain how chromosomal translocations - the supposedly random shuffling of large chunks of DNA that frequently lead to cancer - aren't so random after all.
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KTVN Channel 2 - Reno Tahoe News Weather, Video - Gains Made in Lung Cancer Survival
KTVN Reno - Thu Dec 3, 9:20 am ETWEDNESDAY, Dec. 2 (HealthDay News) -- In the past two decades, survival rates for advanced lung cancer patients in the United States have improved modestly, a new study has found.
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Maggie Daley's 7-Year Cancer Battle Continues
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Task force says it poorly communicated breast cancer guidelines
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Cell Phones Don?t Cause Brain Cancer?
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Mayor Daley Calls His Wife A Fighter
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Long-Term Smoking Increases Colorectal Cancer Risk, Study Shows
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ACOG Revises Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines
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CDC: U.S. Smoking Rates Steady, But Smoke-free Laws Effective
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Report: Over 100,000 Cancers Linked to Excess Body Fat
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