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OU Cancer Institute nears opening The Oklahoman Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:00 PM PST University of Oklahoma officials on Tuesday celebrated the construction mid-point on the $120 million OU Cancer Institute.The structure is set to open next November on the OU Health Sciences Center campus, offering research, education, treatment and prevention.Officials are seeking designation as a National Cancer Institute, the gold standard for cancer research and care in the United States, OU ... Stereotactic radiosurgery effectively controls pain in patients with cancer News-Medical-Net Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:59 PM PST Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), a radiation therapy procedure pioneered at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) that precisely delivers a large dose of radiation to tumors, effectively controls pain in patients with cancer that has spread to the spine, according to researchers from UPCI. Battle with lung cancer News-Medical-Net Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:58 PM PST In his debut memoir, "No Expiration Dates: A Cancer Patient's Strategies for Survival" (published by iUniverse), Leon Weisman recounts his unique and inspirational battle with lung cancer while also offering practical advice about the emotional and social changes that a cancer diagnosis can bring to a patient as well as a family embarking on the fight to stay alive. Lower total cholesterol may be caused by undiagnosed cancer: Study News-Medical-Net Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:43 PM PST A pair of studies in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, lay to rest the decades-long concern that lower total cholesterol may lead to cancer, and in fact lower cholesterol may reduce the risk of high-grade prostate cancer. Flu activity postpones most inpatient surgeries Welland Tribune Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:42 PM PST NIAGARA â€" Due to high flu activity, Niagara Health System is postponing all inpatient surgeries scheduled for Wednesday â€" except for cancer cases and emergency surgical procedures.[...] Fashion fights cancer The Daily Gamecock Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:41 PM PST USC's Fashion Board presents 'Modern Mocktail' featuring local designers A passerby looking through the windows of 701 Whaley St. last night might have dreamt they had been transported to New York Fashion Week instead of Columbia. Models decked in local fashions sauntered down the runway to raise money for breast cancer resear... Bagel, stamp sales raise more than $6,500 to battle breast cancer The Joplin Globe Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:39 PM PST Panera Bread in Joplin sold 17,421 pink ribbon bagels during October for breast cancer awareness and will donate $4,355.25 to the Hope 4 You Breast Cancer Foundation, Sarah Burkybile of the foundation said Tuesday. Breast Cancer Vaccine Tests German Merck’s $1 Billion Strategy Bloomberg Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:35 PM PST Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Merck KGaA of Germany is gambling an unproven therapy that spurs the immune system to attack cancer cells will increase its share of a $48 billion oncology market. Cancer risk in San Bernardino neighborhood triggers medical study at BNSF rail yard. The Press-Enterprise Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:35 PM PST Researchers and regulators are focusing what some say is unprecedented attention on a low-income, predominately Hispanic community of about 7,000 people living with pollution from a west San Bernardino rail yard. PET imaging is not the basis for increasing dosage level News-Medical-Net Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:29 PM PST Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of non-small cell lung cancer prior to receiving radiation therapy should not be the basis for determining areas that may benefit from higher doses of radiation, according to research presented by investigators at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital at the 51st ASTRO Annual Meeting (Abstract #2583/B-186).

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