April 19, 2007 – 10:49 am
BEIJING, April 19 (Xinhuanet) — Studies done both in the U.S. and UK showed women who take hormones after menopause — hormone replacement therapy (HRT) — will have a much higher risk of breast cancer and a slightly higher risk of ovarian cancer, according to media reports Thursday.
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April 15, 2007 – 10:09 am
WASHINGTON: When the current U.S. presidential candidates were children, the word “cancer” — the Big C, as actor John Wayne called it when he disclosed his — was something of a taboo.
As adults, these candidates are discussing their various cancer battles with almost matter-of-fact candor, chatting about PSA tests and lymph nodes and the like […]
April 15, 2007 – 10:08 am
Defects in two cell-messaging systems work in sync in one common form of the disease.
A new University of Michigan Medical School study sheds light on cell defects that lead to one common type of ovarian cancer and puts forth a promising new mouse model that already is being used for preclinical drug testing.
April 15, 2007 – 10:08 am
Among men who have received similar treatments for prostate cancer, those with less education –– particularly those who did not graduate from high school –– experience a significant drop in their quality of life after treatment compared with men who have more education, according to a study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA […]
April 15, 2007 – 10:06 am
Elizabeth Edwards is moving along the line at the Iowa headquarters for her husband John Edwards’s presidential campaign. As outstretched hands reach towards her a burly man in a leather jacket gives her a Lance Armstrong Live Strong bracelet. Mrs Edwards stares at the yellow rubber ring. “I have one of these,” she says.
April 15, 2007 – 10:05 am
REUNION, Fla. — Two months ago, Dakoda Dowd thought the end was here.
Her mother was bedridden for weeks, unable to move, unable to take care of herself. Kelly Jo Dowd’s hair was gone, her spirit was waning and Dakoda feared the worst, that cancer was finally going to take her mother.
“Yes, cancer is winning,” Dakoda […]
April 15, 2007 – 10:03 am
REUNION, Fla. — Two months ago, Dakoda Dowd thought the end was here.
Her mother was bedridden for weeks, unable to move, unable to take care of herself. Kelly Jo Dowd’s hair was gone, her spirit was waning and Dakoda feared the worst, that cancer was finally going to take her mother.
“Yes, cancer is winning,” Dakoda […]
April 15, 2007 – 10:01 am
It was as if the floor had dropped out from under her. “I thought it was a death sentence,” Flo Paananen recalls of the moment she was told she had cancer. “My mother died of cancer. It’s an awful feeling. You start getting papers in order and preparing for your own death.”
The Timmins mother of […]
The newly remodeled St. John’s Cancer Center will have an open house for the public from 3:30 to 5:15 p.m. Tuesday. A free cancer education program is planned 6 to 8 p.m.
The general public is invited to tour center at 2055 S. Fremont Ave.
Physicians and staff will provide building tours and information about services.
Gleevec, a pill developed in conjunction with the Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute is again showing excellent results in preventing a cancer recurrence.
In a major news release from the National Institutes of Health today it was stated that: preliminary results from a large, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial for patients with primary gastrointestinal stromal […]
