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One Woman Takes on Breast Cancer Before it Takes On Her KREX-TV Grand Junction Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:57 PM PDT NEW CASTLE, Colo.- Michele Martineau remembers the moment. The moment every woman hopes they'll never experience. DRIVE OUT CANCER CHALLENGE: Schools team up to beat disease Kennebec Journal Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:57 PM PDT A crowd estimated at more than 3,000 people were at the Cony-Gardiner football game Friday night. Cony won the game and now the other fall sports are coming up. 5 Things to Know About Mobile Radiation SiliconIndia Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:52 PM PDT The WHO (World Health Organization) in May 2011 went on to release a statement stating that high use of mobile phones may lead to cancer. As we all know that not all technology can’t be good, there would be some negative fall outs as well. New molecular mechanism plays a crucial role in inhibiting TGF-beta signaling News-Medical-Net Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:50 PM PDT Researchers headed by Maria Macias an ICREA researcher at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and Joan Massagu-, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York, have identified a new molecular mechanism that plays a crucial role in the control of the activation of certain genes associated with cancer. Prostate Cancer Foundation launches Big Aussie Barbie campaign MumBRELLA Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:44 PM PDT Prostate Cancer Foundation Australia has launched a TV and direct mail campaign around its fundraising event, the Big Aussie Barbie. The campaign features actor Les Hill, cricketer Matthew Hayden, celebrity chef Ben O’Donohue and rugby league stars Michael Ennis and Ben Ross. The campaign, which claims that the disease kills eight Australian men every day, [...] Obese and overweight women face increased risk of recurrence of most common type of breast cancer EurekAlert! Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:30 PM PDT ( Wiley ) Extra pounds -- even within the overweight but not obese range -- are linked to a higher risk of recurrence of the most common type of breast cancer despite optimal cancer treatment, according to a new study published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The study's results suggest that extra body fat causes hormonal changes and inflammation ... Thousands run Panerathon The Youngstown Vindicator Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:28 PM PDT By BOB JACKSON news@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN When Debbie Dennison got the news a dozen years ago that she’d been diagnosed with breast cancer, one terrible thought kept piercing her brain like a spike. City woman tunes in to help cancer victim Winston-Salem Journal Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:20 PM PDT Tiffany Wilkes-Blackburn of Winston-Salem has never met 7-year-old Julian Ross of Oswego, N.Y., but she has granted the critically ill boy's wish by pulling off a major coup. Zsa Zsa to Undergo Surgery on August 27 Female Network Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:17 PM PDT Singer Zsa Zsa Padilla, who was recently diagnosed with stage one kidney cancer, is set to undergo surgery in the United States on August 27 to remove the tumor in her kidney."Laparoscopic surgery will be performed -- four holes," she was quoted as saying in an article by ABS-CBNNews.com. ... OLBH cancer support group to meet Sept. 6 The Huntington Herald-Dispatch Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:16 PM PDT RUSSELL, Ky. -- Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital's breast cancer support group will meet at 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, in the diabetes education classroom at Bellefonte Centre, 1000 Ashland Drive, Russell, Ky. This month's meeting topic is "Lifting the Fog -- Chemobrain."

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