Health News: [cancer]: Work needed to improve end-of-life care, report suggests

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Health News : cancer - News from Yahoo !   Pharmacy assistant in small hospital discovered diluted drugs by accident Tue, 30 Apr, 2013 02:55 PM PDT TORONTO - A pharmacy assistant at a Peterborough, Ont., hospital discovered by accident that cancer drugs administered to 1,200 patients in two provinces were diluted. Continue reading First cancer compo deal for firefighters Tue, 30 Apr, 2013 02:47 PM PDT Tasmanian firefighters have welcomed a groundbreaking scheme compensating them if they contract cancer. Continue reading

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Health News : cancer - News from other sources.   Shaved heads equal money for cancer npc-news.theoaklandpress.com Tue, 30 Apr, 2013 02:52 PM PDT Eight Walled Lake Consolidated School District staff members were among 197 people who sacrificed th... Continue reading Work needed to improve end-of-life care, report suggests Tue, 30 Apr, 2013 03:01 PM PDT Study finds that 45-per-cent of terminal cancer patients in Canada still die in acute-care hospital beds, rather than in palliative care, and that there is much variation from province to province Continue reading Alberta streamlines cancer services under one agency Tue, 30 Apr, 2013 02:54 PM PDT The Alberta government is realigning all cancer care under one umbrella agency to improve research and frontline help for patients, Health Minister Fred Horne announced Tuesday. Continue reading Half of cancer patients die in hospital, report says Tue, 30 Apr, 2013 02:53 PM PDT About half of cancer deaths in Canada happen in hospitals, a finding that points to the need for better palliative and end-of-life care, families and experts say. Continue reading Facing Cancer, feeling the healing Tue, 30 Apr, 2013 02:50 PM PDT The core of healing is not about cutting out or treating disease but in helping human beings feel better, healthier and alive. Continue reading Scientists Find Mutation Driving Pediatric Brain Tumors Tue, 30 Apr, 2013 02:49 PM PDT A type of low-grade but sometimes lethal brain tumor in children has been found in many cases to contain an unusual mutation that may help to classify, diagnose and guide the treatment of the tumors, report scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Continue reading Women Smokers More Likely to Get Colon Cancer Than Men: Study Tue, 30 Apr, 2013 02:44 PM PDT Just a few cigarettes a day raises their risk, researchers say Continue reading Jackson-AEG: Paramedic says Jackson Looked Like Hospice Patient Tue, 30 Apr, 2013 02:43 PM PDT LOS ANGELES — The paramedic who answered the emergency call to the Holmby Hills mansion where Michael Jackson lived said that the condition of the singer resembled that of a cancer patient who had come home to die. Richard Senneff … Continue reading

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