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BC LB Herzlich takes field after cancer recovery

Big News Network - 2 hours 19 min ago
Boston College linebacker Mark Herzlich has returned to the field for Saturday's season-opener against Weber State after missing the entire 2009 season while recovering from cancer.
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Increase in cancer survival rates predicted

Big News Network - 3 hours 50 min ago
The number of people surviving cancer is predicted to increase significantly over the next 10 years. A conference in Dublin has heard cancer survival rates have increased by almost 10% over the past ...
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Schools balk at breast-cancer message

Big News Network - 6 hours 29 min ago
BY JEFF MARTIN SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Cancer has ravaged several of Ann Aberson's relatives, so she doesn't have a problem with her two teenage daughters wearing bracelets to raise awareness of breas...
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Light The White House Blue For Prostate Cancer Awareness Month

Big News Network - 7 hours 46 min ago
0 posts Members of the Prostate Cancer Roundtable, consisting of America's Leading Prostate Cancer Organizations, are asking President Obama to place a blue ribbon on the White House and light the Whi...
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'Basal-Like' Breast Cancer Does Not Originate From Basal Stem Cells

Big News Network - 8 hours 22 min ago
breast cancer prevention and treatment strategies. The study, published by Cell Press in the September 3rd issue of the journal Cell Stem Cell, suggests that despite their "stem cell-like" characteris...
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Chemical In Widely Consumed Foods Linked To Skin Cancer

Big News Network - 8 hours 22 min ago
cancer journal, Cancer Research, features a new study from The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, that links capsaicin, a component of chili peppers, to
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Cancer survivors get behind 5K walk to help others

Big News Network - 8 hours 22 min ago
Saturday, Sept. 11, will mark the culmination of work by the two 33-year-old wives and mothers to bring a major American Cancer Society event to Muskegon County.
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10% rise in cancer-survival rates discussed at national conference

Big News Network - 8 hours 44 min ago
The major increase in cancer survival is the subject of a national conference taking place in Dublin today.Figures from the National Cancer Registry reveal a rise of nearly 10% in survival rates for a...
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'Basal-Like' Breast Cancer Does Not Originate From Basal Stem Cells

Big News Network - 9 hours 40 min ago
breast cancer prevention and treatment strategies. The study, published by Cell Press in the September 3rd issue of the journal Cell Stem Cell, suggests that despite their "stem cell-like" characteris...
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Cancer-Causing Gene Found To Be Crucial In Stem Cell Development

Big News Network - 9 hours 40 min ago
Stem cells might be thought of as trunks in the tree of life. All multi-cellular organisms have them, and they can turn into a dazzling variety other cells - kidney, brain, heart or skin, for example....
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Chemical In Widely Consumed Foods Linked To Skin Cancer

Big News Network - 9 hours 40 min ago
cancer journal, Cancer Research, features a new study from The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, that links capsaicin, a component of chili peppers, to
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Preventive mastectomies pay off for some women

Big News Network - 10 hours 20 min ago
A long-term study of women who are genetically prone to breast or ovarian cancer has shown that those who undergo major preventive surgeries had a reduced risk of those cancers.
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US nurse discovers terminal cancer patient is her long-lost father

Big News Network - 10 hours 20 min ago
In a remarkable twist of fate, a dying cancer patient reunited with his daughter he hadn't seen in 41 years at the Bronx hospice where she is a nurse.
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Nurse finds her long-lost dad in patient

Big News Network - 11 hours 10 min ago
A nurse in the US walked into a dying cancer patient's room and in a twist of fate came face to face with her father who had gone missing from her life over 40 years back, it was reported here Saturday.
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Colorado Integrative Cancer Care Expands

Big News Network - 12 hours 12 min ago
AURORA, CO, September 04, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- In order to better serve patients,Colorado Integrative Cancer Care (CICC) has opened a second office location at the Centennial Medical Plaza campu...
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Bone Drugs May Raise Throat Cancer Risk

Big News Network - 12 hours 33 min ago
(AP) People who take many bone-strengthening drugs for several years may have a slightly higher risk of esophageal cancer, a new study says. British researchers analyzed the records of nearly 3,000...
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UK study finds osteoporosis drug enhances risk of cancer

Big News Network - 13 hours 25 min ago
A popular medication for the prevention of osteoporosis doubles the chances of developing cancer, according to a recent UK study.
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The Cancer-Causing Sex Virus

Big News Network - 14 hours 17 min ago
Martin Duffy, a Boston consultant and economist, thought he just had a sore throat. When it persisted for months he went to the doctor and learned there was a tumor on his tonsils.Duffy, now 70, had n...
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Bone-strengthening drugs may raise throat cancer risk

Big News Network - 15 hours 49 min ago
LONDON — People who take bone-strengthening drugs for several years may have a slightly higher risk of esophageal cancer, a new study suggests. The findings are in contrast to another recent stu...
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Long-Term Use of Bone Drugs May Be Linked to Esophageal

Big News Network - 16 hours 4 min ago
THURSDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) -- People with osteoporosis who take drugs such as Boniva (ibandronate), Fosamax (alendronate) or Actonel (risedronate) to strengthen their bones may be at an incr...
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