Health News: [cancer]: Kids with cancer: Part IV: Community organizations, individuals provide relief to young patients

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Health News : cancer - News from Yahoo !   VuCOMP M-Vu® Computer-Aided Detection System for Mammography Installed at Allison Breast Center in Richmond Tue, 30 Jul, 2013 07:00 AM PDT VuCOMP, Inc. announced today that it has installed its advanced computer-aided detection system, M-Vu CAD, at Allison Breast Center in Richmond, Virginia. M-Vu CAD is designed to provide an unprecedented level of performance to help radiologists find breast cancer earlier. Continue reading

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Health News : cancer - News from other sources.   Kids with cancer: Part IV: Community organizations, individuals provide relief to young patients Tue, 30 Jul, 2013 07:02 AM PDT Maureen Humphrey lost her child to cancer, but not in the traditional sense. Humphrey was pregnant in June of 2001 when she learned that she had clear cell adenocarcinoma, a rare and aggressive cervical cancer that necessitated a radical hysterectomy as well as the removal of 28 lymph nodes. "No... Continue reading Foundation Medicine files registration for a proposed IPO Tue, 30 Jul, 2013 06:53 AM PDT Foundation Medicine Inc., a Cambridge biotechnology company using genomics data and DNA sequencing to help doctors pinpoint treatments for cancer patients, has filed regulatory documents saying that it is looking to raise as much as $86.25 million in an initial public offering of common stock. As of Ja... Continue reading Panel recommends annual CT scan for longtime smokers Tue, 30 Jul, 2013 06:52 AM PDT An influential group of physicians is in favor of annual CT scans for people at high risk for lung cancer. Some doctors are heralding early intervention, while others caution this could set up millions of people for unnecessary tests and radiation exposure. Continue reading Med Student, 25, Found Dead From Single Gunshot Wound Tue, 30 Jul, 2013 06:49 AM PDT The death of a 25-year-old University of Michigan medical student is being investigated as a homicide while his friends remember him as an aspiring surgeon in the prime of his life and the "type of person who would have cured cancer."         Continue reading Smokers should be screened for lung cancer, Task Force says Tue, 30 Jul, 2013 06:49 AM PDT For the first time the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is recommending lung cancer screening for people who have a... Continue reading Who should be screened? Tue, 30 Jul, 2013 06:47 AM PDT An influential group of government advisers has endorsed lung cancer screening for the first time - but not for everybody. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is proposing annual CT scans, a type of X-ray, for certain current and former smokers. Continue reading A JOURNEY THROUGH CANCER A FISH DAY Tue, 30 Jul, 2013 06:47 AM PDT We love to eat fresh fish. But when our fisherman friend gave us fish and one of them is a tiny coral reef fish that was literally breathing, I didn't have a heart to kill it. I felt like gasping for breath too. Seconds of indecision passed. Continue reading Lung cancer screening with CT scans recommended for heavy smokers - Boston.com Tue, 30 Jul, 2013 06:46 AM PDT Longtime heavy smokers should be offered annual lung cancer screening using low-dose computed tomography scans instead of chest X-rays, a group of prevention experts recommended on Monday.         Continue reading KEMP provides load balancing support for Macmillan Cancer Support Tue, 30 Jul, 2013 06:45 AM PDT 30 July 2013: KEMP Technologies load balancers are providing a helping hand to keep the IT systems running smoothly at Macmillan Cancer Support. With over 1,500 office staff and homeworkers doing valuable work to help thousands of people affected by cancer, Macmillan has installed KEMP LM-2600 L... Continue reading

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