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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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A group of more than 300 breast cancer survivors gathered on the field of the MacAfee Coliseum Saturday to form a human “ribbon” of hope. They filed into the sunlight wearing pink T-shirts and A’s caps, sporting wide grins to participate in the Eighth Annual Breast Cancer Awareness Day. The day-long celebration was presented by [...]
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Faced with a cancer diagnosis, or any challenging life event, you want to talk to someone who has already experienced what you are about to experience. You want to find stories about other people who have overcome adversity, preferably told by the people who went through it first-hand. You want to know what to expect. [...]
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Hormonal Therapies: Making Decisions and Quality of Life After Breast Cancer is the next teleconference hosted by Living Beyond Breast Cancer (LBBC). Get the latest treatment strategies and learn about quality of life issues surrounding hormonal therapy during a free teleconference from 12 p.m to 1:30 p.m on Tuesday, September 26th.Speaker Ruth Oratz, MD, FACP, [...]
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CHICAGO: Hundreds of people took to Lake Michigan today to help raise money for leukemia research. They were participating in the 10th Annual Leukemia Cup Regatta. CBS 2’s Suzanne Le Mignot spoke with a cancer survivor who took to the water this morning to raise money to find a cure. This is 38-year-old Travis Wilhite. [...]
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Testicular cancer is the most common cancer in men between the ages of 15 to 34. There are two different types of testicular cancer based on how the cells look under a microscope. The classifications are seminoma and non-seminoma testicular cancer. Metastatic nonseminomatuous testicular cancer can be cured in many men with chemotherapy. Sometimes after [...]
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Celebrities have a way of motivating the public to take action. They help dictate fashion trends and set standards for mostly unattainable body shapes and sizes. They add hype to political views and philosophies and make influential statements about all sorts of issues. Like breast cancer. With its backing from celebrities like Melissa Etheridge and [...]
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When Kerrianne Duffy was diagnosed with breast cancer, it seemed as if her world would fall apart. Just weeks before she was due to marry her long-time partner Shaun at a romantic ceremony in Las Vegas, she was hit with the shocking news. Doctors told her she was suffering from a form of the disease [...]
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Sheryl Crow’s cancer studies are starting to make her paranoid that she will never really be free of the disease. The rocker fought breast cancer earlier this year and has since been given the all-clear by medics, but studying the disease that devastated her has left her fearing the worst about her future health. She [...]
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The Cancer Research UK conducted a survey of breast cancer survivors and found more than half admit they have missed taking the scheduled doses of chemoprevention medication. The three most common reasons the women gave for not taking the medicine were: tablets hard to swallow, difficulty in coping with side-effects and the fact that drugs [...]
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