Posting Straight Facts on Cancer
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Parents who lost a son to cancer have built a website using their own funds to help other patients make sense of complicated treatment information. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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A debate over an unproven hypothesis, which says cancers are fed by cancerous stem cells, could affect the direction of research.
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Researchers singled out the deaths of more than 300,000 cancer patients, because deaths from cancer are usually more predictable and less sudden than those from heart attacks, strokes or other ailments.
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PA sources this morning are releasing statements denying reports that Yasser Arafat has cancer. According to MK (Taâal) Dr.
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According to the American Cancer Society, smoking will cause about 30 percent of the 563,700 cancer deaths this year. The American Cancer Society also reports that
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Remember, October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Last column, I mentioned the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundationâs three-day events.
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FRIDAY, Dec. 8 (HealthDay News) -- There were important advances in the detection and treatment of cancer this year -- more people than ever are now surviving the disease -- but cuts in government cancer research dollars could slow progress in the fight.
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women and the second-leading cause of cancer death, following lung cancer.
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One might expect cancer researchers to promote the free and open exchange of information. They donât.
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Dec. 21 2004 -- Despite tales to the contrary, a new study suggests that people dying of cancer can&#39;t intentionally postpone death to survive through a holiday or birthday.
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MONDAY, Feb. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Just 5 percent of Web pages devoted to breast cancer contain inaccurate information. But pages focused on complementary or alternative medicine are 15 times more likely to make misleading claims and contain other false information, a new study says.
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Add colon cancer prevention to the possible list of reasons that an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Studies in lab rats show that certain antioxidants found in apples sharply reduce pre-cancerous
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NEW YORK  - In women with breast cancer,  the probability of dying from that malignancy, as opposed to  some other cause, can range from 3 percent to 85 percent,  depending on factors such as disease stage and patient age at  diagnosis, new research shows.
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Just last week I said to myself and to others, Iâm not going to write about cancer. I know it is October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but I felt I would just back away from the subject; sit on the sidelines
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Here&#39;s the good news from the National Cancer Institute. A new study finds those foods can decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease, unfortunately it doesn&#39;t decrease the risk of cancer.
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New research shows that a set of simple questions may help primary-care practitioners identify which women would benefit from a more elaborate discussion of tamoxifen, a drug that can help prevent breast cancer.
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Jeff Hersh / News Correspondent. Editor&#39;s note: October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This is the final column in a three-part series discussing breast cancer -- the risk factors, screening and tests and treatment options.