Recent Cancer Headlines:
Breast-cancer numbers soar
Dec 26, 2005 ... By JOANNA DAVIS. The number of women in the upper South Island diagnosed with breast cancer is soaring as access to screening services improves. ...
Light linked to breast cancer
Dec 26, 2005 ... 25 (UPI) -- A US study that injected mice with human cancer cells found that nighttime exposure to artificial light stimulated the growth of human breast tumors ...
Potential Pharmaceutical Drugs In The Field Of Cancer
Dec 26, 2005 ... ... derivatives. All this with the end aim of exploring possibilities for their application in the pharmaceutical field as anti-cancer drugs. ...
Study Sees Benefit in High-Dose Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer
Dec 26, 2005 ... The new findings suggest researchers should take another look at the possibility of using this technique against breast cancer, said lead study author Ulrike ...
Drug duo offers new hope in the fight against cancer
Dec 26, 2005 ... KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Patty Holtz has been battling her cancer for 15 years. ... We don't often get this kind of benefit from cancer drugs," McGuirk said. ...
Nutritional approaches shown viable in cancer prevention
Dec 26, 2005 ... Shivendra Singh, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology and urology and codirector of the Cancer Biochemoprevention Program at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer ...
Quest for cancer cure drives teenager
Dec 26, 2005 ... By PAM DUNNO. ST. MARYS — Jenny Kellermeyer, 17, has a cause. She said research will some day cure cancer and acts to raise money to help fund it. ...
GREEN TEA VS. PROSTATE CANCER
Dec 26, 2005 ... A type of prostate precancer called PIN develops into cancer within one year of diagnosis 30 percent of the time. Yet of the 32 ...
Cancer patient, family grateful for support from community
Dec 26, 2005 ... ... see Kevin Ceja today, he probably won't complain about the radiation burns on his torso or his thinning hair, both the fallout of his ongoing cancer treatments ...
Positive frame of mind has proportionate effect on cancer ...
Dec 26, 2005 ... ... psychologist Dr. George Kallingal says recent studies have found that factors such as stress reduction may have a powerful effect on cancer patient prognoses. ...
Girl campaigns against cancer; jeweler visits South Africa
Dec 26, 2005 ... Photo: Abby Lowther, 12, of Jasper County, has given her hair and more to help fight cancer. ... "People that I love are dying from cancer. ...
Baylor grad conquers classroom, cancer
Dec 26, 2005 ... ... feet. For the last year Crouch maintained that perfect grade-point average, enrolled full time, while battling cancer. “Something ...
Rescue dog with cancer gets help from pupils
Dec 26, 2005 ... ... giving, Deanne Riley's fourth-grade class at the Forest Avenue Elementary School has embraced Tarsha, an 8-year-old search-and-rescue dog who has skin cancer. ...
Skin cancer strikes back
Dec 26, 2005 ... Older white women with a history of non-melanoma skin cancer are at greater risk for developing melanoma, regardless of the amount of sun they have been ...
Burglars hit house of Wabasso cancer patient
Dec 26, 2005 ... By DAN GARCIA. WABASSO — Jake Cole, who had his left lung removed on Oct. 4 after doctors discovered a cancerous tumor, spent eight ...
'Last Resort' Cancer Drug Used Earlier
Dec 26, 2005 ... Dec. 25 - KGO - Neuroblastoma is a childhood cancer that attacks developing nerve cells. It is the most common cancer in infants ...
Chasing the grail of genomics
Dec 26, 2005 ... ... If scientists are able to reach this level of efficiency in sequencing human genomes, it may negate efforts like The Cancer Genome Atlas, a recently announced ...
Woman Battling Cancer Receives Gift of Hope
Dec 26, 2005 ... ... it's right.". And Debbie figured a new horse named Blue could keep De Ann from feeling blue during her battle with cancer. Debbie ...
Artemisinin shows potential in preventing breast cancer
Dec 26, 2005 ... A derivative of the sweet wormwood plant used since ancient times to fight malaria and shown to precisely target and kill cancer cells may someday aid in ...
Isadore Sharp
Dec 26, 2005 ... ... countries. They jogged in Shanghai to honour the spirit of a curly-haired kid from Port Coquitlam, BC, claimed by cancer back in 1981. ...
University of Cambridge awarded grant from Cancer Research UK for ...
Dec 26, 2005 ... ... from the University of Cambridge’s departments of Chemistry, Oncology, Pharmacology, Biochemistry, Pathology and the MRC-Hutchison Cancer Cell Unit based at ...
Esophageal cancer on the rise
Dec 26, 2005 ... Barrett's esophagus is a condition that puts sufferers at a higher risk for esophageal cancer, one of the fastest increasing cancers in the US. ...