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Pesticides linked to pre-cancer condition UPI Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:58 PM PDT BETHESDA, Md., June 15 (UPI) -- A U.S. study linked pesticides used in agricultural work to a pre-malignant condition, researchers said. Check It Out Israel National News Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:58 PM PDT (IsraelNN.com) Hebrew University professor Avraham Hochberg took first prize in this year’s Kaye Innovations Awards for his work in genetics and cancer research. Genes packaged in fathers' sperm shape healthy babies New Kerala Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:55 PM PDT London, June 15 : In what may lead to a diagnostic test to help couples deal with infertility, a new study from Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah has revealed that the father's sperm delivers much more complex genetic material to the egg than previously thought. UConns Jim Calhoun released from hospital Charleston Daily Mail Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:53 PM PDT HARTFORD, Conn. - Connecticut basketball Coach Jim Calhoun is out of the hospital, a day after breaking five ribs in a bicycle crash.Calhoun, 67, biked at least 16 miles after hitting a pothole and falling during Saturdays 50-mile annual Jim Calhoun Cancer... Searching for the cure BizJournals Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:49 PM PDT Nearly one quarter of all deaths in the U.S. each year are caused by cancer. This week’s section focuses on research aimed at fighting the disease, the nation’s second leading killer behind heart disease. Cancer researchers target $6 billion in federal budget BizJournals Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:49 PM PDT Local cancer physicians and researchers already have submitted grant applications in hopes of grabbing a share of the $10.4 billion budget boost the National Institutes of Health received as part of the federal stimulus bill passed in February. Hauser responds to cancer treatment The New Ulm Journal Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:39 PM PDT SLEEPY EYE - Daniel Hauser, the 13-year-old son of Anthony and Colleen Hauser of rural Sleepy Eye, is responding well to treatment for his Hodgkin's lymphoma, according to a family spokesman. A recent x-ray revealed that his tumor has shrunk, said Daniel Zwakman, a family friend and spokesman from Cottage Grove. There has been a "significant reduction" in the tumor, according to Zwakman. Aurora 'Two-Step' to offer fun, fund-raising Mesabi Daily News Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:29 PM PDT AURORA â€" There’s going to be a great time at Pine Grove Park in Aurora from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday, June 27, and everyone’s invited. Also, the event, the Pine Grove Two-Step, is for a good cause, helping cancer survivors and their families. 50,000 volunteers sought for long-term cancer study The State Journal-Register Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:25 PM PDT C.J. Hood cared for her 28-year-old daughter during months of chemotherapy, radiation treatments and surgery to combat a rare form of cancer in the young woman’s right leg in 2008 and 2009.   Randolph leukemia patient seeks stemcell donors for herself, others The Randolph Reporter Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:23 PM PDT RANDOLPH TWP. â€" Andrea Katz, the township woman whose up-close and personal battle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma is the subject of a new book about coping with cancer, needs your help.

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