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Sea of yellow fights cancer in San Diego

Administrator — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:22:39 +0000

Sea of yellow fights cancer in San Diego

Administrator — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:22:39 +0000

Sea of yellow fights cancer in San Diego

Coast RCMP constables out to conquer cancer

Administrator — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:51:55 +0000

Like so many of us, this year’s Cops for Cancer Tour de Coast riders have personal reasons for wanting to eliminate cancer. Sunshine Coast RCMP Const

2010 Martell walkathon to help foundation battle cancer

Administrator — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:19:19 +0000

The T.J. Martell Foundation for Leukemia, Cancer and AIDS Research will host its 16th annual Madison Area Walkathon on Sunday, Oct 3, starting and finishing at the Madison Area YMCA at 111 Kings Road.

Race remembers life; fights cancer

Administrator — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:19:16 +0000

Terry Fox Run honors cancer victim’s trek across Canada. On Oct

Cancer crisis? Muskegon County group seeks answers in White Lake

Administrator — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:49:05 +0000

After popular Montague native Doug Schlaff died of a rare cancer, two women who loved him -- his mother and his wife -- launched a research project to find out if the environment is to blame. Photo gallery

Improvement in prediction of blood clots in cancer patients

Administrator — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:04:04 +0000

( American Society of Hematology ) For cancer patients, who have an increased risk of developing venous thromboembolism due to a hyperactive blood coagulation system, there is now an enhanced risk model to predict their chance of developing blood clots, according to a recent study published today in Blood, the journal of the American Society of Hematology.

‘Linda cured my cancer from beyond the grave’

Administrator — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:38:47 +0000

A CANCER patient who says she was healed by Guernsey’s ‘miracle child’ Linda Martel has been in the island for the first time since being cured.

Cancer Patient Meets Bone Marrow Donor Who Saved Her Life

Administrator — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:38:44 +0000

Ann Marie Del Fiacco, a 38-year-old mother of two, owes her life to a stranger who volunteered to be a donor for her life-saving bone marrow transplant. On Sunday, Sept.

Quercetin and ferulic acid antioxidants aggravate kidney cancer in severely diabetic rats

Administrator — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:13:08 +0000

Scientists are calling for more research on the possibility that some supposedly healthful plant-based antioxidants - including those renowned for their apparent ability to prevent cancer - may actually aggravate or even cause cancer in some individuals. Their recommendation follows a study in which two such antioxidants - quercetin and ferulic acid - appeared to aggravate kidney cancer in ...

Study finds long-term use of bone-strengthening drugs increase risk of oesophageal cancer

Administrator — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:29:13 +0000

People who take bone-strengthening pills called bisphosphonates over a long period of time could be more likely to develop cancer of the oesophagus (gullet), new research suggests.

Study finds long-term use of bone-strengthening drugs increase risk of oesophageal cancer

Administrator — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:29:13 +0000

People who take bone-strengthening pills called bisphosphonates over a long period of time could be more likely to develop cancer of the oesophagus (gullet), new research suggests.

Motorcycle Cancer Risk Campaign for EMF Magnetic Field Radiation Rider Safety

Administrator — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:43:01 +0000

Safety-Environment-Future is the focus of the International Motorcycle Safety Conference . Randall Dale Chipkar hopes for resolutions reducing rider health risk regarding cancer-controversial ELF EMF radiation emission penetrating up through motorcycle seats.

Marlee Matlin – Matlins Dad Diagnosed With Cancer

Administrator — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:06:51 +0000

Oscar winner MARLEE MATLIN has been left devastated after learning her father has been diagnosed with cancer.Doctors discovered Don Matlin, 80, was suffering from...

September shines light on childhood cancer

Administrator — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:29:12 +0000

If you've seen people wearing gold ribbons recently, it means they are showing support for National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. The medical community, survivors and families are trying to bring attention to the cause and raise money to support children with cancer.

Behemoth Bassist Calls On Fans To Aid Cancer Stricken Bandmate

Administrator — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:38:18 +0000

The bassist of Polish rock band BEHEMOTH is calling on fans to register as bone marrow donors to help singer/guitarist ADAM 'NERGAL' DARSKI find a match in his battle...

Behemoth Bassist Calls On Fans To Aid Cancer Stricken Bandmate

Administrator — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:38:18 +0000

The bassist of Polish rock band BEHEMOTH is calling on fans to register as bone marrow donors to help singer/guitarist ADAM 'NERGAL' DARSKI find a match in his battle...

SWOG Names Five Cancer Researchers as Outstanding Young Investigators

Administrator — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:07:41 +0000

SWOG, one of the nation's largest cancer clinical trial cooperative groups, has selected five talented researchers for its Young Investigators Training Course, an intensive, three-day workshop in how to develop and conduct cancer clinical trials.

Helping Lebanon’s very sick kids get an education

Administrator — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:25:38 +0000

On Christmas Eve 2008 12-year-old Paul Yared started counting his days. Medical tests had revealed a vicious form of bone cancer that transformed the Lebanese boy's life in London from going to school and playing to dealing with chemotherapy and pain.

Helping Lebanon’s very sick kids get an education

Administrator — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:25:38 +0000

Helping Lebanon’s very sick kids get an education

Administrator — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:25:37 +0000

Helping Lebanon’s very sick kids get an education

Administrator — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:25:37 +0000

Study finds increase in bone morphogenetic protein usage for Off-Label procedures

Administrator — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:21:04 +0000

Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) is increasingly used as an alternative to the patient's own bone for spinal fusion surgery. Yet at least 85 percent of these procedures are operations for which BMP use has not been formally approved by the U.S.

Researchers develop new approach with RNA molecules to kill cancer cells

Administrator — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:59:08 +0000

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have engineered a fundamentally new approach to killing cancer cells. The process developed by Niles Pierce, associate professor of applied and computational mathematics and bioengineering at Caltech, and his colleagues uses small RNA molecules that can be programmed to attack only specific cancer cells then, by changing shape ...

Scientists create new process to ‘program’ cancer cell death

Administrator — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:47:09 +0000

Researchers have engineered a fundamentally new approach to killing cancer cells. The process uses small RNA molecules that can be programmed to attack only specific cancer cells; then, by changing shape, those molecules cause the cancer cells to self-destruct.

Midlands Pilot Beats Cancer, But Grounded by Migraines

Administrator — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:47:05 +0000

St. Matthews, SC (WLTX) - Cancer can take a toll on your body, your spirit, and your career. But one Midlands pilot beat the disease twice, only to be grounded by mysterious migraines that doctors have yet to find the cause of.

Maggie Daley’s Cancer Battle Weighed On Mayor

Administrator — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:12:32 +0000

In announcing his decision not to run for re-election, Mayor Daley merely said it was time. But as his wife continues to battle cancer, many are speculating what role her health played in his decision. CBS 2's Vince Gerasole reports.

Bone cancer foundation moves headquarters to Durham

Administrator — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:58:25 +0000

DURHAM, N.C. – The Chordoma Foundation , which focuses on development of treatments for bone cancer, has relocated its headquarters to the American Tobacco Campus from Greensboro.

A targeted cancer therapy?

Administrator — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:52:08 +0000

Some small RNA molecules can selectively kill cultured human cancer cells, unlike conventional cancer therapies that kill indiscriminately

Caltech scientists create new process to ‘program’ cancer cell death

Administrator — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:25:55 +0000

( California Institute of Technology ) Researchers at Caltech have engineered a fundamentally new approach to killing cancer cells. The process -- developed by Niles Pierce, associate professor of applied and computational mathematics and bioengineering at Caltech, and his colleagues -- uses small RNA molecules that can be programmed to attack only specific cancer cells; then, by changing shape ...

Interrupting death messages to treat bone disease

Administrator — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:06:51 +0000

A surface molecule on bacteria that instructs bone cells to die could be the target for new treatments for bone disease, says a scientist speaking at the Society for General Microbiology's autumn meeting today.

Conditional small RNA molecules can kill cancer cells and leave healthy cells alone

Administrator — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:30:04 +0000

In a recent study, researchers demonstrated that conditional small RNA molecules can effectively kill lab-grown human brain, prostate and bone cancer cells in a mutation-specific manner. The treatment separates the "diagnosis" and "treatment" aspects of chemotherapy, so a cell is killed if -- and only if -- it is diagnosed with a mutation.

Cancer educates a med student

Administrator — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:30:02 +0000

Joshua Lilienstein is uninsured, battling to regain his health and learning to become a doctor at USC.

Cancer Survivor Who Had Baby With Own Frozen Embryo Dies

Administrator — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:16:53 +0000

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- She made history by following her dreams and believing in miracles. A Jacksonville woman who was the first cancer survivor in the world to have a baby with her own frozen embryo died Sunday.

These cancer cells will self-destruct in 5…4…

Administrator — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:05:59 +0000

Cancer is a difficult disease to treat because it's a personal disease. Each case is unique and based on a combination of environmental and genetic factors. Conventional chemotherapy employs treatment with one or more drugs, assuming that these medicines are able to both "diagnose" and "treat" the affected cells

Cancer home damaged

Administrator — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:13:27 +0000

The earthquake has left more than 200 child-cancer families without a "safe haven".

Bone drugs may raise risk of throat cancer

Administrator — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:11:32 +0000

LONDON (AP) - People who take bone-strengthening drugs for several years may have a slightly higher risk of esophageal cancer, a new study suggests.

Bone drugs may raise risk of throat cancer, study says

Administrator — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:11:27 +0000

LONDON -- People who take bone-strengthening drugs for several years may have a slightly higher risk of esophageal cancer, a new study suggests. ...

Childhood cancer survivors 5 times more likely to get cancer again: Study

Administrator — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:50:43 +0000

According to a new study, children who survive cancer are at a higher risk of cancer later in life or may die early of other cause. The study included almost 900 young cancer survivors treated at Sydney Children's Hospital, from 1972 to 1999, alongside new cancer cases and early deaths. The risk of cancer was five times higher in childhood cancer survivors, the results showed, compared with the ...

Breast cancer survivor Diane Montville of Bainbridge Township is a key volunteer in the Race for the Cure

Administrator — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:49:09 +0000

Not only has Montville survived cancer, the 49-year-old has become one of the top 100 fundraisers for the Race for the Cure and has been the volunteer chair of the northeast affiliate for the race for three years.

Using PET/CT In The Detection Of Breast Cancer Metastases

Administrator — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:48:50 +0000

About one-third of women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer will have their cancer travel, or metastasize, to other parts of the body, with the bone being the most common site of initial detectable spread.

Bone-building drugs double the risk of esophageal cancer, but the risk is still small

Administrator — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:09:18 +0000

The family of bone-building drugs that includes Fosamax, Actonel and Boniva can double the risk of developing throat cancer, researchers reported Thursday in the latest development in what has become a confusing discussion. Other studies have reported no increase, but even if the newest finding is correct, the risk is still quite small--about two cases per 1,000 people between age 60 and 79 ...

Bone drugs may double esophageal cancer risk

Administrator — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:41:13 +0000

People who take a kind of osteoporosis drug named bisphosphonates for more than half a decade may double the risk of getting esophagus cancer, according to Reuters on Friday.

Cancer risk ‘can be doubled’ by taknig drugs to fight bone thinning

Administrator — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:42:38 +0000

Hundreds of thousands of women taking drugs to combat bone thinning could be doubling their risk of cancer of the oesophagus, warn British researchers.

Bone drugs may raise cancer risk

Administrator — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:27:13 +0000

People who take many bone-strengthening drugs for several years may have a slightly higher risk of esophageal cancer, a new study says.

New study links bone drugs to esophageal cancer risk

Administrator — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:45:50 +0000

People who take bone-strengthening drugs for several years may have a slightly higher risk of esophageal cancer, a new study ...

Bone drugs linked to cancer risk

Administrator — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:37:58 +0000

LONDON - PEOPLE who take a commonly used class of osteoporosis drugs called bisphosphonates for more than five years may be doubling their risk of developing cancer of the gullet or oesophagus, a British study found on Friday. Researchers who conducted the work said the results were worrying, but should not prompt doctors or patients to immediately change their practice on bisphosphonates, which ...

Bone Drugs May Raise Throat Cancer Risk

Administrator — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:37:55 +0000

Study Finds People Who Take Bone-Strengthening Drugs for Several Years May Have Slightly Higher Risk of Esophageal Cancer

Long term use of oral bisphosphonates may double risk of esophageal cancer

Administrator — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:24:06 +0000

People who take oral bisphosphonates for bone disease over five years may be doubling their risk of developing esophageal cancer (cancer of the gullet), according to a new study published on bmj.com today.

Bone Medicines May Increase Risk of Esophageal Tumors, Researchers Find

Administrator — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:24:05 +0000

A group of drugs used to prevent bone loss in osteoporosis patients may increase the risk of contracting cancer of the esophagus, a new study found.