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Halifax student gives away Sidney Crosby chat to young cancer patient

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 10:45
Pittsburgh Penguins Sidney Crosby from Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia smiles during a team training skate in Moncton, New Nrunswick, Monday Sept 18, ...
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Annual Pap tests not needed, Saskatchewan Cancer Agency says

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 09:30
Beginning of Story Content The Saskatchewan Cancer Agency is changing its guidelines and says most women should have a cervical screening test, commonly known as a Pap test, only once every three ...
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Model turns breast cancer advocate

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 09:22
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Zinc suppresses pancreatic cancer cells

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 09:20
University of Maryland scientists have found zinc to be a likely tumour suppressor in a common form of pancreatic cancer.
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Hospitals sued over delayed cancer treatment

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 08:58
MONTREAL - Nicole Valcourt claims that if her uterine cancer had been treated faster by three Montreal Island hospitals, it wouldn't have spread to her liver and intestines and be killing her ...
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BU to share in $19M breast cancer research grant

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 08:56
will share in a $19.3 million grant to study racial disparities in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, the Boston Business Journal reports. The grant was awarded by the National Cancer ...
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Children's Names New Director Of Center For Cancer And Blood Disorders

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 07:43
Children's Medical Center has named Dr. Stephen X. Skapek director of the hospital's nationally ranked Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders. Skapek also becomes the director of UT ...
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Chemotherapy narrows woman's reproductive window

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 07:21
A University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) study has found chemotherapy to have a greater impact on women's reproductive health than estimated at present.
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Neoadjuvant chemotherapy prior to surgery can benefit women with lobular breast cancer

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 06:42
cancer , however no one had yet examined the question of the breast preservation rate", says study leader Prof. Dr. Florian Fitzal from the University Department of Surgery, who also works at ...
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Winship to Collaborate with Northside Hospital on Cancer Treatment Research

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 06:42
Emory's Winship Cancer Institute will increase collaboration with Northside Hospital -- to which the American Cancer Society's South Atlantic Division awarded a $96,000 grant -- to ...
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'Captain Marvel' Bryan Robson claims beating throat cancer

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 06:10
Former England football captain Bryan Robson, nicknamed 'Captain Marvel', has declared that he has beaten throat cancer after receiving a clean chit in the letter from the doctor who treated him.
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Rs10mn collected in 10 minutes for Imran Khan's cancer hospital in Pak

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 05:40
A whopping amount of 10 million rupees was collected in just 10 minutes, well before the target, as Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan appealed to well-off people and philanthropists in Pe
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Tropical plant extracts offer new hope for effective ovarian cancer therapy

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 04:50
Researchers at the Universities of Strathclyde and Portsmouth have suggested that tropical plants may contain the basis of new and effective treatments for ovarian cancer.
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Jobs’s Apple Exit Follows Eight-Year Health Fight After Cancer

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 04:08
Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Steve Jobs’s exit from the top post at Apple Inc., the technology company he co-founded in 1976, follows years of health struggles that began in 2003, when he was ...
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Delta College event hopes to make strides in breast cancer research

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 04:06
STOCKTON - Few people like to admit they're getting older. But when you're living with a diagnosis of breast cancer, any reservations about aging fly out the ...
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Hawaii receives funding for liver cancer research

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 01:35
HONOLULU---Two scientists from the University of Hawaii Cancer Center and The Queen's Medical Center have received a five-year $2.3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop ...
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The day to do your bit for cancer

Thu, 08/25/2011 - 22:56
Kim McClymont is grateful to anyone who donates money to any cancer research project. But as today - Daffodil Day - is the Cancer Council's biggest fundraiser she hopes that people will readily ...
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Life Expectancy Of Cancer Patients Can Be Predicted Using New Scoring System

Thu, 08/25/2011 - 21:02
A study published on bmj.com today showed that a new scoring system can more accurately predict the remaining life expectancy of patients with ...
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Breast Cancer Regimen Less Likely To Be Adhered To Among Women Who Drink And Smoke

Thu, 08/25/2011 - 19:56
Women with a high risk of breast cancer who drink and smoke are less likely to adhere to a drug treatment regimen meant to stop cancer before it starts, a new study suggests. Researchers looked ...
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Brides Against Breast Cancer tour of Gowns stops in Nashville

Thu, 08/25/2011 - 19:56
Brides Against Breast Cancer Nationwide Tour of Gowns is scheduled to return to Nashville this weekend. The unique tour will be held Friday from noon to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at ...
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