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Rosetta Puts Blood-Based Cancer Screen on Back Burner to Refocus on miRNA Diagnostics GenomeWeb News Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:50 AM PST Rosetta Genomics this month announced that it has scaled back its work on a serum-based colon cancer-screening assay based on microRNA biomarkers, less than a year after the company said that commercialization of the test, dubbed miRscreen Colon, had become its top priority. Arrowhead Preps Phase I siRNA Drug Data for Publication, Raises $3.2M in Private Placement GenomeWeb News Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:35 AM PST Arrowhead Research said last week that its subsidiary Calando Pharmaceuticals continues to advance its siRNA-based cancer drug CALAA-01 through a phase I study and that certain data from the trial have been prepared for publication in a yet-to-be-named peer-reviewed journal. Runner honors friend, raises money for cancer society The Sentinel Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:28 AM PST Wracked with stage four cancer, Les Cline’s goals are mostly short term in nature. Doctors tell him he’s living on borrowed time. Photo shoots aim to aid local teen Monticello Times Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:22 AM PST Heather Elliott-Heath has known Jordan Davis since her daughter met the “new girl” at school in fifth grade at Pinewood Elementary five years ago. Now, as she watches 16-year-old Jordan fight a rare form of childhood cancer, Elliott-Heath is reaching out to help “Little Jordan” and the Davis family. Admirals And Susan G. Komen For The Cure Announce "Pink in the Rink" on January 16 OurSports Central Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:12 AM PST NORFOLK, Va. - The Norfolk Admirals and Susan G. Komen for the Cure will hold "Pink in the Rink" at the Admirals game at Norfolk Scope on Saturday, January 16th, 2010. This popular annual event will seek to educate and raise awareness about breast cancer while also raising monies for Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Health care reform, H1N1 top health news for 2009 KOTA Rapid City Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:08 AM PST Potentially historic moves toward health care reform, the emergence of the pandemic H1N1 flu and controversial changes to cancer screening all made 2009 a very busy year for health news. Michael Milder: Physicist, Family Man The Palisadian-Post Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:59 AM PST Michael Milder, a physicist and family man, died of kidney cancer on December 12 at his home in Pacific Palisades. He was 71 years old. Obituary - Marcia Lynn Schene Fontana Herald News Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:58 AM PST Marcia Lynn Schene of Fontana passed away Wednesday, Dec. 23 at her family home after a four-year battle with breast cancer. Schene was born in Belleville, Ill. on Sept. 1, 1949 to William and Charlotte Schene. TV show helps US curler pay for parents' Oly trip INO News Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:54 AM PST U.S. curler Chris Plys will be treating his parents to a trip to the Vancouver Olympics, thanks to some cash he earned on a new reality show. Plys received $6,500 to fund his parents' trip to Canada from Duluth, Minn. His father, Patrick, has recently overcome brain cancer. Mercy looks to expand cancer treatment facilities Williston Herald Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:39 AM PST You might say Bob Beery's arrival four years ago as manager of the Williston Mercy Medical Center's cancer treatment services happened at an opportune time.

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