Health News: [cancer]

POST PERFORMERS OF THE WEEK: Dec. 26-Jan. 1 New York Post Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:32 AM PST The Post high-school staff takes a look at the top performers in boys basketball and girls basketball from the week of Dec. 26-Jan. 1 BOYS BASKETBALL Ed Correa, Mount St. Michael The Rice transfer led Mount St. Michael to the Josh Palmer Coaches vs. Cancer Tournament in Elmira, N.Y... ROBBINSVILLE: Teen donates time, talent to global cancer foundation The Messenger-Press Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:30 AM PST ROBBINSVILLE â€" Downloaded music can be uplifting â€" especially when it’s for a good cause. Olympic dream for Kieran Northern Echo Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:25 AM PST A TEENAGER who lost part of his leg during his battle against cancer has vowed to learn to walk again by June this year, when he will carry the Olympic torch. Online auction and ball success Bury Free Press Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:15 AM PST Gina Long,second left, hands over the cheque for �102,112 to Elsie Robson far right following the successful on line Bobby Robson auction and Ball which raised more than �200,000 for the Bobby Robson Foundation and Breakthrough Breast Cancer Also pictured are Kady Elsie's sons Andrew and Mark and Adam Clark, part of the fund-raising team. Inquiry launched into cancer parient's death following secret cigarette Daily Record Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:14 AM PST A CANCER patient has died after suffering burns when he sneaked a cigarette despite being on oxygen. Dropped passes mar Maclin's season The Philadelphia Inquirer Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:58 AM PST Here are some observations and ruminations about Sunday's Eagles-Redskins game: When you put Jeremy Maclin's season in perspective, a few dropped passes pale in comparison to his scare with cancer. Up to two-thirds of NHS funding requests for cancer drugs that extend life ‘are turned down‘ in Wales icWales Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:48 AM PST UP TO two-thirds of requests for NHS funding for potentially life-extending cancer drugs are being turned down in Wales, we can reveal. Woodland Fire Department hosting fundraiser for Knights Landing's cancer-stricken fire chief The Daily Democrat Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:45 AM PST Not even cancer could stop Rachel Olson from trying to serve her community. Olson, the fire chief of the Knights Landing Fire District who does CSI-type work at the Yolo County Sheriff's Department as her primary job, was diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer in mid-November. Since then, she's taken a leave of absence from working with the sheriff's department but continues to do ... Daft as a Brush cancer charity set to expand services The Journal Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:42 AM PST A CHARITY that takes care of North East cancer patients in their hour of need is to expand its services. Cancer sufferers prescribed nearly 10,000 treatments denied to them by NHS through special fund Daily Mail Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:27 AM PST Patients are able to request cash from the Cancer Drugs Fund to help buy medicine that has been refused to them because it is not 'cost effective'.

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