On their feet, fighting cancer
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Wearing a bib reading &quot;Feisty Fighting Franci,&quot; breast cancer combatant Franci Finkelstein propelled herself across the finish line of yesterday&#39;s Run for the Cure with tears in her eyes, raising clasped hands in the air with her friends.
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The treatment that more cancer patients receive may one day depend on their genes
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Families of cancer patients may feel that regardless of medical opinion, the patient can will themselves to make it through Christmas.
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In the battle against cancer, saving two patients out of 17 may seem modest enough. But researchers see hope that using genetically altered immune cells to attack tumors -- as was done in this study -- may hold the key to eventually defeating various cancers.
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Over the past 14 years there have been 114 deaths from cancer in Huangmengying, a village with a population of more than 2,400 in Shenqiu County, Central China&#39;s Henan Province.
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People with Down's syndrome are less prone to some cancers - and scientists hope to exploit this to help others.
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South Bend, IN - A local effort to raise awareness in the fight against breast cancer has gained a lot of support. Radio station U-93 has been collecting bras from listeners during breast cancer awareness month.
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NEW YORK  - Recreational physical activity   in the year before a diagnosis of breast cancer seems to have a   positive influence on the prognosis of young women who are   overweight or obese when they are diagnosed, new research   suggests.
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Doctors are reporting two advances that may give women with cancer safer ways to preserve their ability to have children without compromising their chances of beating the disease.
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Students looking to get involved in fund-raisers that benefit the cure for cancer research can join the cause, as spectators or as participants in athletic events for October&#39;s National Breast Cancer Awareness month.
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It&#39;s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the focus is on surviving cancer by staying optimistic. One way to do it is to feel that you look good.
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Instead of using surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation, researchers from the National Institutes of Health are finding so-far limited but inspiring success in a new approach for fighting cancer, using the immune system to attack the tumors the way it would a cold or flu.
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A new cancer care centre is to be built using funds raised by women who powerwalked wearing decorated bras.
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When Diana Menendez was diagnosed with Hodgkin&#39;s disease in 1968 at age 8, doctors weren&#39;t sure they could cure her. So they hit her cancer with everything they had: high-dose radiation and four years of chemotherapy.
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When Tammy Brooks's doctors diagnosed her breast cancer last year, the single mother said she did what came naturally: She turned to her friends at the Virginia National Guard.
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(Buffalo, NY, November 18, 2004) - - The American Cancer Society is honoring some Western New Yorkers who are trying to help others kick their smoking habit.
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Friends suggest that her increasing presence in her husbandâs campaign reflects a clarity that comes from her cancer diagnoses.