Make Some Noise
Madison Eagle Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:59 PM PST
In just four hours, the Make Some Noise: Cure Kids Cancer Foundation netted more than $100,000 with donations still coming in days later and its 11-year-old founder says it’s only the beginning of what he hopes will be a national campaign to fund research into pediatric cancer. |
Far North Coast Junior Surf Life Saving carnival | Northern Rivers
Northern Star Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:54 PM PST
Far North Coast Junior Surf Life Saving carnival at Turners beach, Yamba. IN an effort to save young lives from skin cancer, a campaign is under way to have surf lifesavers protected from the sun during surf competitions. |
Queens breast cancer detection worst in nation
Queens Courier Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:50 PM PST
Some local community members believe that some recent recommendations to delay mammogram screenings tests until age 50 could not come at a worse time with new reports that show Queens as the worst area in the nation when it comes to breast cancer detection. |
CWAC to participate in Coaches vs. Cancer
The Daily Record Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:42 PM PST
ELLENSBURG â€" Both Ellensburg High School basketball teams play back-to-back games Friday and Saturday night at EHS. While the double dip doubleheader will no doubt be a crucial stop for both the boys and girls as they navigate the CWAC, fan support for the conference battles against Wapato and Selah could take a back seat to the other program at EHS. |
Suffering Well: Faith Tested By Pastor's Cancer
CBS 11 Dallas - Fort Worth Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:31 PM PST
Matt Chandler doesn't feel anything when the radiation penetrates his brain. It could start to burn later in treatment. But it hasn't been bad, this time lying on the slab. Not yet, anyway. |
Florham Park youngster leads fight against pediatric cancer
Florham Park Eagle Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:31 PM PST
FLORHAM PARK â€" Malcolm Sutherland-Foggio of Florham Park is happy his bone cancer has gone into remission. But the 11-year-old says he won’t be celebrating until his 21st birthday, when he’s safely past the 10-year mark designating him a cancer survivor. Until then, he’s doing what he can to help other youngsters beat the odds with him. |
Obituaries received today
The Oshkosh Northwestern Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:27 PM PST
Paul H. Christensen, age 57, of Eau Claire, died of cancer, Thursday, January 28, 2010, at the Oakwood Villa Nursing Home in Altoona. He was born February 28, 1952, in Neenah, to the late Harry and Marie (Sorenson) Christensen. In 1978 Paul moved to Eau Claire, and from 1980 until the present time he had worked at the Eau Claire YMCA. Paul played wheelchair basketball competitively through the ... |
Swishing out cancer in children
WCSH 6 Portland Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:26 PM PST
Thirty three basketball teams faced off Sunday in Gorham to raise money in the fight against cancer. This is the 16th year of the Dr. Noel Paradise Memorial Swish-Out Childhood Cancer Challenge. |
Lawrence Garfinkel dies at 88; statistician helped link smoking to lung cancer
Los Angeles Times Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:23 PM PST
Garfinkel co-conducted massive epidemiological studies that paved the way for the landmark 1964 surgeon general's report on smoking and health. Lawrence Garfinkel, the statistician who overcame his lack of a doctoral degree and training in oncology to become one of the driving forces in demonstrating that smoking causes lung cancer, died Jan. 21 in Seattle. He was 88. |
Readington nurse selected 'National Nurse of the Year'
Hunterdon Review Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:06 PM PST
READINGTON TWP. â€"Township resident, Mary Vecchio, a cancer outreach nurse practitioner at Hunterdon Regional Cancer Center, is Nursing Spectrum Magazine’s “National Nurse of the Year for Community Service.†She was selected from hundreds of nominations across the country. |
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