Health News: [cancer]: KCLU wins national journalism award

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Health News : cancer - News from other sources.   KCLU wins national journalism award Sat, 27 Apr, 2013 10:54 AM PDT The Society of Professional Journalists is awarding a 2012 Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in journalism to KCLU News Director Lance Orozco for his story chronicling his battle with kidney cancer. Continue reading Tests Near Ohio Cancer Cluster Planned For Park Sat, 27 Apr, 2013 10:53 AM PDT Investigators over the past years have been focusing on a 12-mile-wide circle of mostly farmland just south of Lake Erie. Read More Continue reading Daffodil Day is the day to support those affected by cancer Sat, 27 Apr, 2013 10:43 AM PDT Two in five Canadians will be diagnosed with the disease in their life and many people will be wearing yellow daffodil pins today to remember. Cancer is the number one killer in Canada. Continue reading Cancer medicines unaffordable for patients, doctors say Sat, 27 Apr, 2013 10:26 AM PDT Cancer medicines that cost more than $100,000 a year aren't morally justifiable and may keep patients from getting life-saving treatments, a group of more than 100 leukemia doctors said. Continue reading Tobacco tax helps cancer patients Sat, 27 Apr, 2013 10:16 AM PDT Trust fund: Terry Cuabo, Guam Cancer Care executive director, works at his desk in this Pacific Sunday News file photo. Guam Cancer Care will receive about $800,000 from the Cancer Trust Fund, according to the organization. Continue reading Walking to fight: Estero hosts Relay for Life 2013 Sat, 27 Apr, 2013 09:58 AM PDT When Karin Petrocelli walked with a friend in her first Relay for Life event 10 years ago, she choked up a bit as she watched the survivors take the opening lap, remembering her mother, who had just died of cancer. Continue reading Drifter cancer cells dangerous: Study Sat, 27 Apr, 2013 09:41 AM PDT Biologists and physicists in the US have shown that cancer cells that separate or drift off from the Continue reading Drug menace spreading like cancer: Milkha Singh Sat, 27 Apr, 2013 09:32 AM PDT Kolkata, Apr 27 (PTI) Legendary Indian athlete Milkha Singh today said doping menace in the country had spread like cancer and urged the athletes to pursue success the hard way instead of going for short-term gains. Continue reading READER SUBMITTED: April Is Oral Cancer Awareness Month Sat, 27 Apr, 2013 09:17 AM PDT According to the Oral Cancer Foundation, the 5-year survival rate of persons diagnosed with oral or throat cancer is about 65 percent. Those numbers are not just important to the 42,000 Americans who will be diagnosed with oral or throat cancer this year, they are important for everyone w... Continue reading Week in science: Heavily stubbled men are more attractive, says science Sat, 27 Apr, 2013 09:03 AM PDT This week science has shown that clean shaven is not always best, and that brief periods of stress are actually good for you. We've seen modified bacteria literally nuke cancer cells, and British scientists propose a good old space harpoon as the way to clear Earth's orbit of some 6,000 tonnes of space... Continue reading

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