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Texas Breast Specialists Adds Naviscan PEM Technology to Breast Cancer Treatment Services PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:00 PM PST Texas Breast Specialists, part of Texas Oncology, has expanded its breast cancer treatment services in Dallas, McKinney, Bedford, Carrollton, and Plano, Texas to include the mobile Naviscan PEM scanner. 'Red Light' Green Lights New Possibilities for Cancer Treatment GenomeWeb News Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:59 PM PST Making cancer treatments more effective could be as simple as bathing cells in a soothing glow . Researchers at the University of Ulm in Germany have found that cells absorb chemotherapy drugs more effectively when first hit with a pulse of red light, reports New Scientist . Because light on this wavelength decreases the density of water and pushes it out of cells "when the laser is switched off ... Browns rally around plight of ailing Canal Fulton boy The Canton Repository Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:58 PM PST The story of Ryan Trewin, a brave 9-year-old Canal Fulton boy battling brain cancer, has touched thousands of hearts. That Ryan’s song, if you will, echoes in the ears of an NFL team is a heartwarming story on a Cleveland Browns team whose biggest worry is having lost too many football games. Ryan was on the field before Sunday’s Browns-Panthers game.   Calvillo admits he needs throat surgery Sportsnet.ca Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:50 PM PST Quarterback Anthony Calvillo, minutes after winning his third Grey Cup Sunday, admitted publicly he is facing a cancer scare on his throat and will have surgery in the next couple of weeks. Longtime public servant loses cancer fight Goshen News Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:43 PM PST   The death of Dallas Winchester Thursday left a big hole in two communities. Winchester, 48, died in Goshen Hospital Thanksgiving afternoon after being diagnosed with cancer three weeks earlier. His friends in Milford town government and the Wawasee School Corp. prayed for his recovery and hoped to see him back soon, and now are still feeling the shock. Journalist Alfred Balk dies at 80 Los Angeles Times Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:33 PM PST Alfred Balk had served as editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. His reporting on 'block-busting' for the Saturday Evening Post became part of a civil rights case that reached the Supreme Court. Alfred Balk, a longtime journalist who was a former editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, died Thursday of cancer at his home in Huntley, Ill., his family said. He was 80. Women with personal history of breast cancer should be screened with MRI EurekAlert! Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:29 PM PST ( Radiological Society of North America ) Women with a personal history of breast cancer should consider annual screening with MRI in addition to mammography, according to a new study. Ruth I. (Shrader) Rickett, 52 The Herald-Mail Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:27 PM PST HAGERSTOWN, Md. - Ruth I. (Shrader) Rickett, 52, of Hagerstown, passed away Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010, at her home after a long, courageous battle with cancer. Angela C. Jannuzzi, 44 The Herald-Mail Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:26 PM PST ERIE, Pa. - Angela C. Jannuzzi, 44, of Erie, Pa., died Saturday, Nov. 20, 2010, following a long and courageous battle with cancer. Citizen outrage leads to replacement of TSA program Online Journal Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:23 PM PST Fist fights, stabbings and bombings of X-ray machines have led to the canceling of the frisk, feel-up and bombard with X-rays program that had caused such embarrassment and so much cancer.

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