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Monday, Dec 03, 2012 09:03 AM EST

Watch: Child Pulled From Cancer Ward by Parents Mon, 03 Dec, 2012 06:00 AM PST 11-year-old girl's life might be in danger after her parents slipped her out of a Phoenix hospital. Apparently We Have to Teach 20-Year-Olds Who Gilda Radner Is Mon, 03 Dec, 2012 05:57 AM PST Get this: Gilda's Club -- the cancer support group named for Gilda Radner, who once claimed that cancer is "an elite club I'd rather not belong to" -- is getting a new name. The reason? People born after 1989 don't know who Gilda Radner is. Everything Animals: Emma's Foundation Mon, 03 Dec, 2012 05:56 AM PST Emma's Foundation helps pet owners whose pets have cancer pay for treatments. Newtown-based Fund-A-Cure delivers $47K to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital for pancreatic cancer research Mon, 03 Dec, 2012 05:47 AM PST PHILADELPHIA - Board members from Fund A Cure for Pancreatic Cancer visited the pancreatic cancer research team at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia on Nov. 15, led by Dr. Charles Yeo and Dr. Jonathan Brody, to present a check for $47,000 to the Pancreatic Cancer Surgical Research Fund. November is Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. Refugee claimant in Saskatoon says help my family, not me Mon, 03 Dec, 2012 05:47 AM PST The Saskatoon refugee claimant whose cancer drug claims were rejected by the federal government has one request. Shop for a good cause in Hinsdale Mon, 03 Dec, 2012 05:45 AM PST HINSDALE â€"Marna Slawson is manager of development for Wellness House in Hinsdale, which provides support services to people with cancer and their families. Varian Medical Systems to Exhibit New Wireless Flat Panel Detector Image Processing Software ... Mon, 03 Dec, 2012 05:42 AM PST SALT LAKE CITY, - South Hall, Booth 4804 - Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR) will exhibit the company's new PaxScan® wireless digital detector, digital image processing systems and X-ray tubes at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago from Nov 25 - 29. In addition the company will display its technologies for treating cancer with targeted radiotherapy ... Studies from France, China Report Breast Cancer Risk Climbs with Number of Abortions Mon, 03 Dec, 2012 05:39 AM PST HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., Dec. 3, 2012 / Christian Newswire / -- A French study on women with mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which are associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancers, shows "the clearest dose effect of any (abortion-breast cancer) study." Walter Reed Cancer Center Renamed to Honor Late Congressman Mon, 03 Dec, 2012 05:38 AM PST The U.S. Department of Defense will rename and dedicate its national military cancer center as the "John P. Murtha Cancer Center." What's at risk if we go over the fiscal cliff Mon, 03 Dec, 2012 05:37 AM PST A hundred thousand fewer kids in Head Start. Thousands of fewer agents securing our borders. More than 2,000 fewer research grants to combat cancer, Alzheimer's and other diseases. And a $2,200 tax hike for the average American family.

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