Bristol to ‘Turn Town Teal’ to raise awareness
The Bristol Press Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:49 PM PDT
BRISTOL â€" For the second consecutive year, teal-colored ribbons are showing up everywhere in Bristol as the city participates in the Turn the Towns Teal campaign, an effort to raise awareness of ovarian cancer. |
Renowned pianist Van Cliburn diagnosed with cancer
The Kentucky Post Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:36 PM PDT
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- Renowned classical pianist Van Cliburn has been diagnosed with advanced bone cancer and is resting comfortably at his Texas home, his publicist said Monday. |
Short sleep duration linked to more aggressive breast cancers
News-Medical-Net Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:26 PM PDT
Lack of sleep is linked to more aggressive breast cancers, according to new findings published in the August issue of Breast Cancer Research and Treatment by physician-scientists from University Hospitals Case Medical Center's Seidman Cancer Center and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University. |
Lismore doctor gets doctorate
Northern Star Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:22 PM PDT
IT’S not every day a doctor becomes a doctor, but that’s what the head of the North Coast Cancer Institute, Professor Michael McKay has just achieved. |
No such thing as a simple cancer test
Perth Now Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:16 PM PDT
'YOU may have cancer' are some of the most frightening words a patient can hear from a doctor, but screening tests can be detrimental to the outcome. |
R. Palmer Beasley dies at 76; linked hepatitis B to liver cancer
Los Angeles Times Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:14 PM PDT
Epidemiologist made his mark in the 1970s with studies proving the hepatitis B/cancer link. He also discovered how Asian children were infected with hepatitis B during childbirth by mothers who were carriers. Dr. R. Palmer Beasley, an epidemiologist whose pivotal research on hepatitis B in Taiwan first linked the virus to liver cancer, died Saturday of pancreatic cancer at his home in Houston ... |
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