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LINCOLN – In a reception featuring nearly 100 volunteers from all corners of the Nebraska, the American Cancer Society recognized its volunteer leadership in the first-annual ACS Volunteer Recognition Celebration held last month.
If a serious, life-threatening disease could be reduced to a simple formula, for New Britain resident Arran Kendrick, it might be A-B-C: “Attitude Beats Cancer.”
The 2010 Tournament of Roses Royal Court paid one of its first ambassadorial visits Tuesday to cancer patients at Glendale Adventist Medical Center.
In 2005, 75,144 women were diagnosed with some type of gynecologic cancer. In 2006, The House of Representatives recognized September as Gynecologic Awareness Month to increasing public awareness about ways to prevent, detect and treat gynecologic cancers.
The City of Wayzata lost one of its greatest champions over the weekend when Councilmember Sue Bangert died after battling Stage IV Lung Cancer since last November.
A compound in coffee has been found to be estrogenic in studies by Texas AgriLife Research scientists. Though the studies have not been conducted to determine recommended consumption amounts, scientists say the compound, called trigonelline or "trig," may be a factor in estrogen-dependent breast cancer but beneficial against colon cancer development. "The important thing to get from this is that ...
ROBBINSVILLE Christmastime last year seemed to bring a stroke of luck to Kevin Scibilia and his family when doctors said they had found a stem cell donor to aid him in his fight against cancer.
COLUMBUS, Ohio â” Stefanie Spielman, the wife of NFL and Ohio State star Chris Spielman who led a public fight against breast cancer, died Thursday after a lengthy battle with the disease. She was 42.
CBS 8 and Barbara-Lee Edwards are proud to host the San Diego Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer 3-Day walk.
lot of hustling was going on downtown at Festival Park on the morning of Nov. 14, when the Cape Fear Valley Health Foundation's Friends of the Cancer Center held the fourth annual Ribbon Walk for Cancer.
“There is no way this can be good,’’ the Bedminster resident recalled. “I’m probably not going to make it.” Today, the 46-year-old has been cancer-free for five years, considered the “magic” number for survivors, and is a strong, active cancer awareness advocate.
Talk about hot pink. A strong undercurrent of anger ran beneath the sea of symbolic pink gear gracing thousands of people yesterday, on Day One of San Diego’s annual three-day walk to raise money and hope for breast cancer research.
WAPPINGERS FALLS — The fifth- and sixth-grade students at Randolph School, Route 9D, Wappingers Falls will hold their first Celebration of Life, a fundraiser to benefit the American Cancer Society, from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday.
When Debbie, my wife, and I met with my doctor, who will also be my surgeon, she patiently and methodically explained the courses of treatment that might be followed to rid me of the cancer I have. I knew, before we even started, that surgery would be the winner. Following that appointment, Deb and I accumulated a small list of unanswered questions that related to the operation, and, last week ...
Danielle Swopes was 41 years old when her first mammogram turned up the result most women fear: Positive for breast cancer. Because the lump that turned out to be a cancerous tumor was discovered early, the Portales city library employee has...
Surgeons at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center now offer a minimally invasive surgical treatment – video-assisted lobectomy – for veterans with early-stage lung cancer.
Sixteen basketball teams played in the first ever Charlie Lovely Classic at Dora High School . The tournament honors a young athlete who started a childhood cancer foundation. Charlie Lovely was only sixteen when he died of leukemia this year, but he touched a lot of hearts in that time and left a legacy of helping others. Dora High School basketball coach Heath Burns remembers Charlie ...
FOREST CITY — Steve Lovik ticked off the reasons he’s passionate about his new job as a community relations director for the American Cancer Society.
The holiday season is filled with get-togethers with family and friends and can be both fun and joyous. It can also be stressful and tiring at times. Experts warn about this combination of stress, fatigue, and high fat foods -- factors that can, over time, increase your risk of cancer. That's why the National Foundation for Cancer Research has developed a list of Top 10 Food Tips that can help ...
April Menge was between a double mastectomy and chemotherapy when she heard new recommendations that women shouldn’t have mammograms before age 50."When I heard that on the news,” she said, "it truly made me mad.”The United States Preventive Services Task Force announced Monday that it no longer recommends routine breast cancer screening for women ages 40 to 49. They also recommend women skip ...
The new mammogram recommendations out earlier this week caused quite an uproar. Now comes another change in screening tests for women -- this one for cervical cancer.
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