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Hear Now - Cancer support group pushes onward, celebrates life The Wilmington Star-News Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:57 PM PDT By Si Cantwell Si.Cantwell@StarNewsOnline.com When Dorothy Hibbert was diagnosed with breast cancer on her birthday in 2005, she worried about her two young sons. “I didn’t know what to tell them,” she said Saturday at a meeting of the RV Cancer Support Group. After initially saying little, she decided she needed to explain to them what cancer is and what it meant to ... Blood Tests May Spot Colon Cancer Health Scout Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:56 PM PDT Easier detection method might encourage more people to get screened, experts say. McLaren Health Care Forming Partnership With ProTom International to Build First Proton Beam Therapy Center In Michigan PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:56 PM PDT Cancer patients residing in and near Michigan are one step closer to receiving one of the most advanced forms of treatment available with a new partnership being formed between McLaren Health Care and ProTom International, a Texas-based health care technology company. Customer Service Brandon Sun Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:55 PM PDT INDIANAPOLIS - James Isch wants to fulfil Myles Brand's unfinished goals at the NCAA. For now, that's Isch's job. He was named Brand's interim replacement Tuesday, less than a week after the NCAA president died of pancreatic cancer at age 67. Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer Raises Heart Risks Health Scout Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:55 PM PDT Treatment methods should take into account side effects, researchers say. NCAA coaches back health care reform Yahoo! Canada Sports Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:49 PM PDT NCAA basketball coaches who are sometimes rivals on the court came united to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to push for quick approval of health care reform. "Now is the time to press full court," Notre Dame Coach Mike Brey told about 200 American Cancer Society activists and others, adding, "And foul a little bit." Georgetown University Coach John Thompson III countered that... Popularity of pies puts woman's career in a pickle CHCA News Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:45 PM PDT Twenty-one-year-old Jessica Robertson is torn in her career choice after selling all her pies before you could say "saskatoon berries." She raised $7,600 for the Alberta Cancer Foundation in Gibbons, 30 kilometres northeast of Edmonton, in a town-wide garage sale on the weekend. Prostate cancer patients on hormone therapy at increased risk for various heart diseases PhysOrg Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:45 PM PDT New research has found that hormone therapy used to treat men with advanced prostate cancer is associated with an increased chance of developing various heart problems. Some choices of therapy appear, however, to be less risky than others. Football. Letter to Tiger Fans from Mark Herzlich's Father Clemson Tigers Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:45 PM PDT First - My son is Mark Herzlich, the BC linebacker recovering from Cancer. The entire Tiger Nation should be proud of the complete class your entire program carries itself with. I wear a copy of Mark's jersey to games and I lost track of the number of Clemson fans who approached me to wish him well and to say that they were praying for him. These are people who don't know me, don't know Mark and ... Kick for a Cure Columbia Daily Herald Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:41 PM PDT Central High School soccer team members Anna Kate Chance, right, and Sabrina Gonzalez wear shirts that will help raise funds for Breast Cancer Awareness while teammate Dylan Cates (left), a standout senior, makes a practice shot.

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