Health News: [cancer]

Marple Newtown High students offer hope to those with cancer Marple Newtown County Press Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:00 AM PDT Marple Newtown High School Interact Club recently held the American Cancer Society Daffodil Days to give hope to people facing cancer and save lives by supporting the program. The Daffodil Days program is a chance to fight back against cancer by raising funds and awareness to help beat the disease. While the Daffodil Days program involves offering daffodils every spring to donors in appreciation ... Failed Drugs Expose Preclinical Blunders The Scientist Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:56 AM PDT Once a promising cancer treatment, the failure of PARP inhibitors in the clinic may be due to flawed preclinical studies. GALLERY: World in Pictures, March 30, 2012: McCartney, Weller and Wood at the Royal Albert Hall, The Household Cavalry ... WalesOnline Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:51 AM PDT TODAY’S World in Pictures features photographs of Paul Weller, Sir Paul McCartney and Ronnie Wood backstage at a Teenage Cancer Trust gig at the Royal Albert Hall; The Household Cavalry taking part in the ‘Major General’s Review’ in London’s Hyde Park and a model wearing a dress made of chocolate at The Salon du Chocolat in Zurich. Tattooist boosts cancer survivors with new nipples TurkishPress.com Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:49 AM PDT Few tattoo artists tell their clients they could win a wet T-shirt contest. Then again, few tattoo artists are quite like Vincent "Vinnie" Myers. Colon cancer strikes close to home at Mercy Medical Center The Daily Iowegian Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:47 AM PDT When Mercy Medical Center was looking for a personal story to help build awareness about the importance of screening to prevent colon cancer, little did they know the ultimate story was building in their own organization. ImmunoGen begins small-cell lung cancer treatment trial Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:47 AM PDT Anticancer therapeutics company ImmunoGen Inc. (Nasdaq: IMGN) has launched its Phase 2 testing of drug candidate lorvotuzumab mertansine (IMGN901) for the treatment of small-cell lung cancer (SCSC), the company announced today. April 15 - 21 is National Minority Cancer Awareness Week Newswise Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:34 AM PDT The Cancer Institute of New Jersey is making experts available during National Minority Cancer Awareness Week (April 15 to 21) to discuss risk factors, treatment and prevention options for the various types of cancers that are more prevalent among ethnic and racial minority groups. This week is highlighted by health entities across the country because of high cancer rates and deaths among these ... Threshold's cancer drug gets FDA orphan status, shares rise Reuters.co.uk Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:33 AM PDT (Reuters) - Threshold Pharmaceutical Inc's experimental cancer drug received orphan status from U.S. health regulators, sending the biotechnology company's stock up as much as 6 percent in premarket trade. Skin cancer groups join together to commend national recommendation for latest melanoma treatments PR Newswire Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:25 AM PDT Group urges provinces to take quick action for patients with deadly form of skin cancer VANCOUVER, BC, March 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - National skin cancer groups have come together to commend pCODR (pan-Canadian Oncology Drug Review), for recognizing the clinical value of the newest... Partly Cloudy KARK Little Rock Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:22 AM PDT A new government study warns about the possible link between cancer and people who are obese and inactive. Researchers, including some from the Centers for Disease Control, say those are risk factors for at least a quarter of common cancers in the United States.

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