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New research to be released today shows Vietnam veterans suffer higher cancer rates than the general population but they have a lower mortality rate overall. The latest in a series of studies says the overall incidence of cancer for Vietnam veterans is 15 per cent higher than the general population. They have higher rates of [...]
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ADELAIDE adventurer Duncan Chessell will attempt to lead 10 Australian cancer survivors to the top of Mt Kilimanjaro in Africa today. His expedition has been trekking towards the summit of the 5896m peak in Tanzania for the past seven days to mark the 21st birthday of cancer support group CanTeen. The group includes a number [...]
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Kirk Saarloos, a scratch golfer and a pretty fair pitcher for the A’s, said he inherited his athletic prowess from his mother, Linda, who played softball and volleyball at Valley Christian High School in Cerritos. Linda Saarloos stepped to the top of the mound and threw the ball a little high — but on a [...]
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Sheryl Crow regrets hitting the road so soon after battling cancer earlier this year – because singing her old hits left her with mixed feelings. The rocker was still emotionally drained when she performed onstage for the first time after her radiation treatment and feels she should have waited because she came close to becoming [...]
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PITTSBURGH, PA, United States (UPI) — Pittsburgh Mayor Bob O`Connor died of brain cancer Friday night at 61, less than a year after his election to a post he had sought for years. A spokesman told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette O`Connor`s family was with him when he died at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Shadyside [...]
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ATLANTA (AP) — Women going through treatment for breast cancer felt better when they tried yoga, according to one of the first scientific studies of its kind. “Our belief is something as simple and brief as a short (yoga) program would be very useful” at combating side effects from cancer treatment, said Lorenzo Cohen, a [...]
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Cancer patient Jane Tomlinson pedalled her bicycle into Battery Park in lower Manhattan on Friday morning, completing an arduous, 6Â 720km ride across the United States almost exactly six years after she was given six months to live. “I thought it was going to be a bit of an adventure, but it turned out to be [...]
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Lung cancer survival rates in Northern Ireland could be doubled in the next 10 years if more action is taken, experts claimed today. And SDLP leader Mark Durkan, who has been selected to be a Parliamentary Lung Cancer Champion, will now work with the UK Lung Cancer Coalition (UKLCC) to raise awareness of the disease [...]
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According to University of Rochester Medical Center study people exposed to lead on the job are 50 percent more likely to die from brain cancer than people who are not exposed. The study author Edwin van Wijngaarden, Ph.D., said the study provides further evidence that widespread environmental risk factors such as lead must be explored. [...]
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Former El Paso Fire Department Captain and El Paso Community College instructor Robert J. Figueroa died Monday evening, his son Robert Figueroa Jr. said.Figueroa Sr. was at Providence Memorial Hospital, where he was heavily sedated after pancreatic cancer had spread through his body during prior weeks, his son said. The cancer previously had been treated [...]
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A woman who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the 1999 ax-killing of her husband has died of cancer while waiting for the Michigan Parole Board to reconsider her request for a medical commutation. Carla Ringleka, 56, who was from Stanton in Montcalm County, died around 2 a.m. Monday at [...]
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