Health News: [cancer]

CU Cancer Center aims to make progress against squamous cell lung cancer News-Medical-Net Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:56 PM PST Recent advances in targeted cancer treatments greatly bolster the prognosis for many types of lung cancer, but according to a University of Colorado Cancer Center investigator, "practically nothing has improved in squamous cell lung cancer in the last decades." Women’s Health Days in April The Times-Reporter Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:54 PM PST The Tuscarawas County Health Department will hold Women’s Health Days from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 23 and 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 26. The $40 examination includes a pap smear, breast exam, height and weight check, blood pressure check, and colorectal cancer screening test. Gazette.Net: Watkins Mill Elementary School students collect Pennies for Patients Gazette.net Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:49 PM PST Students at Watkins Mill Elementary School in Gaithersburg got a lesson in blood systems and cancer treatment from members of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society at an assembly to start off the school’s Pennies for Patients fundraising drive Feb. 3. ‘Women just don’t know the danger signs’ Aylesbury Today Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:43 PM PST Needless deaths from UK’s deadliest gynaecological cancer could be halted by urgent government action, says a leading charity after new research shows consistently woeful symptom awareness among women. New Colon Cancer Screening Guidelines Focus on Individual Risk MedicineNet.com Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:42 PM PST Title: New Colon Cancer Screening Guidelines Focus on Individual Risk Category: Health News Created: 3/5/2012 6:06:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 3/6/2012 Cancer in Colas' Caramel Coloring? MedicineNet.com Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:41 PM PST Title: Cancer in Colas' Caramel Coloring? Category: Health News Created: 3/6/2012 11:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 3/6/2012 States Facing ‘Sleeping Cancer’ in 96% Unfunded Retiree Benefits Bloomberg Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:37 PM PST The near-failure by U.S. states to fund rising retiree health-care costs for millions of government workers threatens to produce budget crises similar to the one that pushed Stockton, California, to take a step toward bankruptcy last week. News and Notes: Congressional representative Donald Payne dies Daily Princetonian Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:36 PM PST New Jersey Democratic Congressman Donald Payne, who was elected to Congress in 1988, died Tuesday in Livingston, N.J., after a battle with colon cancer. Payne represented a heavily Democratic district in northeastern New Jersey, which includes most of Newark. Payne announced his illness last month. Despite his intention to fight the disease, Payne was transported back to New Jersey from ... Summit Up 3-5-12: 'Sh*t skiers say when stuck on a chairlift' Summit Daily News Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:34 PM PST Before: Summit Cove second-grade teacher Tracy Arnold gets her hair cut off for Beautiful Lengths on Friday. Arnold was inspired by second-grader River Mentch, who also recently had his hair chopped off for Locks of Love. Nice teacher/student partnership for cancer! NJ Congressman Donald Payne Dies at 77 The Epoch Times Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:30 PM PST New Jersey Rep. Donald Payne died on Tuesday after succumbing to his battle with colon cancer. The longtime Democratic congressman was 77.

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