Health News: [cancer]

Cancer Survivors Turn Out For Holiday Celebration Of Life FOX CT Hartford Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:57 PM PST Follow Your Town News On The Courant's Hartford Facebook Page More than 60 survivors of prostate cancer were expected to attend a holiday celebration Tuesday night at The Hartford Courant building, 285 Broad St., where they and their doctors were honored for their determination and strength in beating the disease. Katie Couric splits with much younger boyfriend, Brooks Perlin Los Angeles Times Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:49 PM PST Couric, who is 54, had been dating Perlin, 37, since the two met at a cancer research fundraising event in 2006. Couric, who is 54, had been dating Perlin, 37, since the two met at a cancer research fundraising event in 2006. Tanning beds raise risk of common skin cancer: Study Straits Times Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:42 PM PST (REUTERS) - Tanning beds have already been linked to an increased risk of the deadliest type of skin cancer and now new research shows they can also raise the odds of developing the most common form of the disease. Israeli scientists develop cancer 'cluster bomb' Straits Times Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:42 PM PST JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli medical researchers say they have developed a new technique for blasting cancer tumours from the inside out which reduces the risk of the disease returning after treatment. Stephenville, Aledo show big hearts of small towns for ailing educator WFAA Dallas-Fort Worth Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:36 PM PST STEPHENVILLE - "This is a special kind of gum," said six-year-old Cole Garrett. "It's not just gum." Cole Garrett chews gum with the image of a pink ribbon on it. He does it for his mom. Carrie Normand recently found out she has breast cancer, but not knowing may have been harder. For more than two weeks she suspected something was wrong, and while waiting for the results of her mammogram, she ... Cancer Risk Among Patients With Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy [Original Contribution] Journal of the American Medical Association Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:20 PM PST Context Myotonic muscular dystrophy (MMD) is an autosomal-dominant multisystem neuromuscular disorder characterized by unstable nucleotide repeat expansions. Case reports have suggested that MMD patients may be at increased risk of malignancy, putative risks that have never been quantified. Objective To quantitatively evaluate cancer risk in patients with MMD, overall and by sex and age. Design ... New American Cancer Society Process for Creating Trustworthy Cancer Screening Guidelines [Special Communication] Journal of the American Medical Association Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:19 PM PST Guidelines for cancer screening written by different organizations often differ, even when they are based on the same evidence. Those dissimilarities can create confusion among health care professionals, the general public, and policy makers. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recently released 2 reports to establish new standards for developing more trustworthy clinical practice guidelines and ... Girl dies aged 13, five years after refusing painful cancer treatment Daily Mirror Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:13 PM PST SHE had lived with cancer since she was two... but Leah-Beth Richards begged doctors to stop her treatment because it was too painful. Friends indeed for cancer patients in need KVAL Eugene Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:08 PM PST For the past 27 years, donations have helped the Friends of Florence drive patients from the coast to the Willamette Cancer Center Institute in Eugene's Sheldon neighborhood for treatment. Nunavut women to walk 250km for cancer research CBC North Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:07 PM PST Six women will train and prepare for a rugged walk from Umingmaktok, Nunavut, to Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, in support of cancer research.

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