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More than 2,000 people raised $6 million for cancer research in the “Weekend to End Breast Cancer” in Calgary. Almost every participant in the two-day, 60-kilometre walk knows someone who’s had breast cancer. Ann Lines is a good example. She has a photo of a friend of her’s named vicki on her t-shirt, and says [...]
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Lance Armstrong sat down with ABC News This Week’s George Stephanopoulos to talk about RAGBRAI — the politics of cancer research funding — and bringing the issues of cancer back as a national priority and into the hearts and minds of the American people. At this point in time, concerning cancer as an epidemic that [...]
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A man in the business of helping smokers quit, has been diagnosed with lung cancer. Allen Carr, who was a heavy smoker for 33 years, found what he claimed was an easy way to quit smoking after he quit smoking 23 years ago. Using cognitive therapy, Carr told smokers interested in quitting that they could [...]
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The story I am about to tell you is horrific and gathered from various news accounts of the event that have been published over the months since it happened. Last March, six healthy young men volunteered at Northwick Park Hospital, in London as participants in a clinical trial for a drug called TGN1412, designed to [...]
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University of South Australia researchers have good news for people trying to lose weight, or maintain a healthy weight, in improving their health and reducing their risks for diseases like cancer. With no other lifestyle changes, taking omega-3 fish oil supplements and engaging in moderate exercise helped people struggling with weight issues — who are [...]
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On August 17, My Cancer Place is hosting a teleconference with Dr. Bernie Siegel who will be discussing how to be an exceptional cancer patient and the healing journey of a cancer survivor. Listeners will be able to call in and ask questions. Siegel, who prefers to be called Bernie, one of the world’s foremost [...]
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Researchers will be using a synthetic version of a protein found in Giant Yellow Israeli scorpion venom in further clinical trials to treat glioma, one of the deadliest forms of brain cancer. In a two-pronged effect, the protein, called TM-601, has shown it can deliver radioactive iodine to the tumor and has cancer-fighting properties of [...]
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As many as 60,000 people a year die from too much sun — mostly from malignant skin cancer — according to the World Health Organization (WHO). About 48,000 deaths are caused by malignant melanomas, and 12,000 deaths are caused by other kinds of skin cancer. And 90 percent of these cancers are caused by ultraviolet [...]
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Roger Ebert, movie critic for the nationally syndicated television show Ebert & Roeper, had surgery in June to remove a cancerous growth on his salivary gland. At the time, Ebert, who is 63, and a three-time thyroid cancer survivor, was quoted as saying, “This is not considered to be a life-threatening form of cancer, and [...]
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For chronic pain sufferers, this might be the earliest beginning of the ultimate end for unrelenting pain. Columbia University researchers have been studying how pain works at the molecular and cellular level and discovered a key enzyme that cause nerve cells to send pain messages through the central nervous system even when there is no [...]
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Radio Iowa reports that Lance Armstrong wants to fight the final battles against cancer by forming an army to wage war on cancer. Armstrong is in Iowa this week to participate in RAGBRAI, a cycling tour across the state of Iowa, and while there he is also giving interviews and making speeches about cancer and [...]
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CNN is hosting Ask Sheryl Crow, an online form that you use to submit your question directly to the singer, songwriter and breast cancer survivor. Crow was diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this spring, and went through cancer treatments immediately after the diagnosis. As a breast cancer survivor, Crow wants to reach out to others [...]
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