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Cancer survivor thankful for support

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 […]

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Partners face cancer together

April 11, 2007 – 7:47 am

By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY
When Al Shockney’s wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, he was gripped by fear. For about half an hour.
But her diagnosis, which could have paralyzed him, instead gave Shockney a mission.
“It did cross my mind, ‘What would I do if she wasn’t around?’ ” says Shockney, 66, of Reisterstown, Md.

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Red Meat Linked To Breast Cancer

April 8, 2007 – 6:14 pm

The findings are most striking for post-menopausal women – those with the highest intake of red meat, the equivalent to one portion a day (more than 57 grams) - run a 56 per cent greater risk of breast cancer than those who eat none.
Women who eat the most processed meat, such as bacon, sausages, ham […]

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How can we reduce our cancer risk?

April 2, 2007 – 5:15 pm

There is a lot of talking about the recurrence of cancer in Elizabeth Edwards, wife of presidential candidate John Edwards, and Tony Snow, the White House press secretary. Edwards suffers from breast cancer which has now spread to the bones and Snow is fighting against colon cancer that has spread to the […]

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