Dean Ogan Named To Executive Committee Of Swing Fore A Cure
dBusinessNews.com Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:00 AM PDT
RALEIGH, N.C. â€" Dean Ogan, owner of Rocky Top Hospitality, ( www.rockytophospitality.com ) has been named to the executive committee of the American Cancer Society’s Triangle Swing Fore a Cure. Rocky Top Hospitality is a sponsor of the annual golf tournament, which raises funds for the American Cancer Society. |
Relay For Life offers hope, optimism
Fort Myers Beach Bulletin & Observer Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:59 AM PDT
Relay For Life is a fight against cancer and fighting cancer is a team effort.. That's why over 200 participants will gather at the Holiday Inn on Fort Myers Beach Saturday and Sunday to celebrate, remember, and represent hope as they team up and take turns walking around a designed course to raise funds for the American Cancer Society. The event's opening ceremony begins at noon Saturday and wi |
Red meat linked to increased mortality: Study
Food Navigator USA Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:58 AM PDT
Writing in the new issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine , researchers from the US’ National Cancer Institute (NCI) report that increased consumption of red and processed meat may have a modestly increased risk of death from all causes and also from cancer or heart disease. |
Hockey event raises money to fight cancer
Daily Local News Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:58 AM PDT
The Tri County Police Hockey Club’s Slugs played the Chester County Sheriffs and the Berks County Enforcers during a fundraiser Saturday at Ice Line in West Chester to raise money for Cops Conquering Cancer. |
Red meat linked to increased breast cancer risk
Food Navigator USA Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:57 AM PDT
"Given that most of the risk factors for breast cancer are not easily modifiable, these findings have potential public health implications in preventing breast cancer and should be evaluated further," wrote lead author Eunyoung Cho in the Archives of Internal Medicine (Vol. 166, pp. 2253-2259). |
Colon Cancer - Easily Detectable, Preventable and Beatable (Part 4 of 4)
Kingwood Observer Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:53 AM PDT
Treatment for colon cancer is mainly surgical resection of the colon cancer. With improvements in surgical techniques, colostomy (bringing the colonic opening to the abdominal wall and wearing a bag) is rather uncommonly done nowadays. Laparoscopic surgery and resection of colon containing cancer has added another dimension to the surgical options. Radiation and chemotherapy can be used to ... |
Local students encouraged to stop smoking
Midland Daily News Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:52 AM PDT
Select students at Windover High School and ACEA plan to kick the habit and encourage others to do the same on Kick Butts Day March 25. With assistance from Cancer Services, local alternative high school and adult education students will attend introductory sessions to begin the process of stopping smoking and posting messages on school fencing speaking to the larger community that "Kools Kill" ... |
Beloved gorilla euthanized
Deseret Morning News Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:50 AM PDT
Muke, Hogle Zoo's beloved 44-year-old female Western lowland gorilla, was euthanized Monday after a yearlong battle with cancer in her reproductive tract. |
Hollow gold nanospheres are developed
Moldova.org Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:48 AM PDT
University of California-Santa Cruz scientists say they have developed a metal nanostructure that shows medical, chemical and biological promise.The hollow gold nanospheres developed by UCSC Professor Jin Zhang and his colleagues at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center can, among other things, target tumors for photothermal therapy.What makes this structure special is the ... |
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