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Rep. Charles Norwood, a Georgia dentist who rode to office on a Republican tidal wave in 1994, died Tuesday (Feb. 13, 2007) after battling cancer. Rep. Norwood, 65, died at his home in Augusta, Ga. House members paused for a moment of silence in his honor. Rep. Norwood suffered from a chronic lung disease and [...]
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Bill Clinton, mourning the loss of his stepfather, joined family and friends and hundreds of others who gathered on Saturday for the funeral of a man the former president says brought his mother the best years she ever had. Richard Kelley, 91, died Wednesday at home after a long battle with cancer of the colon [...]
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The award-winning newsman died Tuesday of liver cancer in Norwalk Hospital less than three weeks before his induction into the Radio Hall of Fame. Glenn retired in February after 35 years with CBS.It was Glenn who anchored the January 28th, 1986, launch of the doomed shuttle Challenger and delivered an anguished commentary as the spacecraft [...]
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Researchers believe that eating oranges can actually cut the risk of developing a lung cancer or some other disease. Japanese scientists found the key were vitamin A compounds called carotenoids which give the fruit its orange color. In the first study, scientists surveyed 1,073 people in the Japanese town, Mikkabi, in Shizuoka, who ate a [...]
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Norwich, England (Know Cancer): As per the latest British reports, scientists link high cancer levels found in Norwich’s estuary fish with pollutants and cancer in humans. Scientists discovered that a quarter of fish that they took from open sea and industrial estuaries have liver tumor. They might be a result of contact with chemicals such [...]
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Scientists have developed a way of “executing” cancer cells. Healthy cells have a built-in process which means they commit suicide if something is wrong, a process which fails in cancer cells. The University of Illinois team created a synthetic molecule which caused cancer cells to self-destruct. Cancer experts said the study, in Nature Chemical Biology, [...]
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U.S. researchers say they’ve identified a pattern of gene activity that helps predict the spread of liver cancer. “When we used the gene signature of immune cells in the liver, we could predict tumors that would metastasize in 92 percent of the samples we studied,” study leader Xin Wei Wang, head of the Liver Carcinogenesis [...]
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Exploding gas bubbles are the latest high-tech weapon in the war on deadly cancers. Scientists have devised a way of using the bubbles to block blood supplies to tumours, effectively starving them to death. The ingenious technique involves injecting tiny liquid droplets into the bloodstream and tracking them with ultrasound images until they reach the [...]
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About 1 in 7 Asian immigrants coming into the United States have hepatitis B and are at a much higher risk for liver cancer. The findings were published in a recent issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Vaccinations can prevent hepatitis B [...]
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