Selig treated for skin cancer in New York
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Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig had a cancerous skin lesion removed from his forehead Monday, according to the New York Daily News.
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Boston Red Sox rookie pitcher Jon Lester has a form of lymphoma and will start treatment in the coming week, the team said Friday.
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Doctors are hopeful about a new drug to treat skin cancer by causing tumor cells to self-destruct by overloading them with oxygen.
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BRONX, NY (Ticker) -- New York Yankees outfielder Gary Sheffield, who finished second in voting for the American League Most Valuable Player, will undergo arthroscopic surgery on his left shoulder Tuesday.
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Jon Lester returns to the mound for the Red Sox on Monday, nearly a year after he was diagnosed with cancer.
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Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell underwent surgery to treat breast cancer today at a Danbury Hospital. The cancer was diagnosed last week after a routine mammogram.
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Skin cancers normally found in the elderly are affecting 30-year-olds and it is being linked with unregulated tanning salons.
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Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester, a promising left-handed rookie diagnosed with cancer last season, said on Tuesday he would end chemotherapy after a sixth treatment this month before reporting for spring training.
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First lady Laura Bush was treated for the second most common type of skin cancer on her leg last month, her spokeswoman said on Monday.
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Jon Lester's doctors have told him he's cancer-free from lymphoma, and the Boston Red Sox pitcher is planning to report to training camp on time.
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A new needle-free way is developed to deliver treatment to skin cancer patients, researchers say.
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The Red Sox announced yesterday that Jon Lester, 22, had been diagnosed with a rare form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a blood cancer, and will begin treatment in the coming week.
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Red Sox rookie pitcher Jon Lester paid a visit to Fenway Park yesterday afternoon after calling to say he was coming, and spent about an hour visiting with teammates before appearing in the team's interview room and announcing that tomorrow he will begin undergoing chemotherapy for cancer at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
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WASHINGTON - Skin cancer researchers have stumbled on a cellular cause for hair turning grey as we age. The scientists weren&#39;t aiming to prevent greying, but to find treatments for malignant melanoma, a potentially deadly skin cancer.
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DENVER - Maybe after tonight he can just pitch. Red Sox lefthander Jon Lester sat down for the standard day-before interview at Coors Field yesterday afternoon. He had to know what was coming. He had to know there were going to be a lot of questions about the cancer.
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NEW YORK (Sports Network) - Major League Baseball  commissioner Bud Selig responded to Arizona Senator John  McCain's comment regarding the steroids controversy that has  rocked the sport by saying he would accept help from the  government if the union doesn't accept a change in the current  rules.
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Bruins rookie center Phil Kessel underwent cancer surgery and is "on the road to recovery," his agent said Tuesday.