Cancer survivor chronicles experience, advice in new book
Summit Daily News Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:48 AM PDT
Lyn Chambers, author of “Life Inside Out: A Practical and Inspirational Guide to Dealing with Cancer and Other Life-threatening Illnesses,†will be signing her new book at 3 pm today at The Next Page Bookstore and Tea Bar in Frisco. |
Volcanoes' Cancer Awareness Adds Event
OurSports Central Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:48 AM PDT
The Salem-Keizer Volcanoes' annual Cancer Awareness Weekend has expanded to assist Cancer Survivors by adding the opportunity to donate hair. |
No Waverly Relay For Life in 2012
Waverly News Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:39 AM PDT
WAVERLY â€" The conclusion came as no surprise, as the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life Committee decided that Waverly will not host a Relay For Life event next year. |
Canadian Cancer Society praises Supreme Court judgment on tobacco industry
News-Medical-Net Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:26 AM PDT
The Supreme Court of Canada today unanimously decided that if the tobacco industry is forced to pay damages to the BC government for tobacco-related health care costs, the federal government will not be required to reimburse the tobacco industry for those damages. |
American Cancer Society shop to hold half-off sale
The Desert Sun Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:21 AM PDT
The American Cancer Society Discovery Shop will hold its semiannual 50 percent-off sale 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 12-13 at the store, 42-446 Bob Hope Drive. The shop offers a variety of donated merchandise including clothing, home furnishings and more. |
Myriad can patent breast cancer genes: US court
PhysOrg Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:07 AM PDT
A federal appeals court on Friday ruled in favor of Myriad Genetics after a legal battle over whether the US company could keep its patent on genes linked to an inherited form of breast cancer. |
Another breast removed in vain
The Local Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:40 AM PDT
A woman had one of her breasts removed in south central Sweden and was told after surgery that she did not have breast cancer. This makes it the nation's third such case during July. |
Chemists make first molecular binding measurement of radon
PhysOrg Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:37 AM PDT
Even in trace quantities, the radioactive gas radon is very dangerous; it is second only to cigarette smoking as a cause of lung cancer deaths in the United States. The expense and precautions necessary to study it safely have limited research into its properties. Now, University of Pennsylvania chemists have for the first time measured how well radon binds to a molecule, paving the way for ... |
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