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Last Monday, singer songwriter and breast cancer survivor Sheryl Crow appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show to help Ellen, whose mother is a breast cancer survivor, launch the show’s recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Six months ago, Crow was diagnosed with breast cancer, and is happy to say that during her last check-up she [...]
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Stacey Stephenson, a 19 year old teenager died of stomach cancer after being repeatedly told by doctors that she only had indigestion. Stacey’s cancer was finally diagnosed correctly by a Greek doctor while she was holidaying at Crete. Stacey immediately returned to England for her treatment but she succumbed to stomach cancer, earlier this month. [...]
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This news hits hard at women. It is a big issue for women especially the younger ones, who have received chemotherapy for the treatment of particular cancer. Chemotherapy and the menopause due to it, is a disaster for the women’s sex life. Vaginal dryness and the painful intercourse (also called dyspareunia) are among the major [...]
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United States (Know Cancer News) We have already reported that the cancer death rates have been falling considerably, as per the Federal Report released this Wednesday. However, the news is not good for Kentucky and Indiana. Kentucky has the nation’s highest cancer death rates. Kentucky has the highest cancer death rates with Indiana the seventh [...]
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September is the month for Prostate Cancer Awareness. In United States alone, approximately 234,460 men will learn that they have prostate cancer, and nearly 27,350 will die from the disease. However if diagnosed and detected earlier, prostate cancer can be treated in time. The survival rate is far up to 100 percent. As per a [...]
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Cancer is set to affect one in every two Britons by 2030, pushing the NHS bill for treatment up 50 per cent to £6 billion, The Birmingham Post can exclusively reveal. Current statistics show about one in three people can presently expect to develop cancer during their lifetime, but as the ageing population grows every [...]
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A routine jab could cut the number of deaths from cervical cancer by three quarters if given to all girls aged 12, say researchers. It could also reduce the need for smear tests which lead to anxiety for thousands of women each year who have an abnormal result. And it might even reduce the likelihood [...]
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Every year in Ireland, around 200 new cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed and 70 women die from the disease. A further 1,000 new cases of cervical pre-cancer are also diagnosed annually. Women with cervical cancer or other cancers of the womb should ask their partners to wear condoms when having sex, as semen may [...]
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WASHINGTON — It took eight agonizing months for Charles Linzey to decide how to treat his early-stage prostate cancer. His wife, in contrast, had her early-stage breast cancer surgically removed just a month after diagnosis. It’s not that the Baltimore businessman was less decisive. Instead, Linzey ran into a distressing reality: Unlike with breast cancer [...]
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In the advent of the HIV epidemic, the number of people with cancer has escalated, the head of Oncology at Princess Marina Hospital said last week. Dr Alexander Von Paleske informed the media that the ward, which was initially meant to be for admissions and observations, has now turned into a cancer ward. He said [...]
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FRIDAY, Aug. 25 (HealthDay News) — Smoking causes normal breast cells to become cancerous by impairing their ability to repair their damaged DNA, U.S. researchers report. In laboratory tests, researchers at the University of Florida (UF) exposed breast epithelial cells to cigarette smoke condensate — a tar gathered from a machine that that artificially “smokes” [...]
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The idea of Casting for Recovery is to not just survive, but thrive. It’s a program that puts together breast cancer survivors with fly-fishing instructors for a weekend retreat on the water, combining physical therapy with spiritual and emotional recovery. Linda Keller, a professor of rehabilitation counselor education at Western Oregon University, knows a lot [...]
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