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Prostate-Cancer Treatment Wasted $40 Billion, Researcher Says Bloomberg Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:01 PM PDT Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Prostate-cancer therapies for men whose disease didn’t need treatment cost at least $40 billion during two decades in the U.S., according to a Dartmouth Medical School researcher. Teammates For Life Camp A Success; To Become Annual Event Akron Zips Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:01 PM PDT AKRON, Ohio - After nearly 40 former players pulled together to raise over $4,000 for former Zip Deann Viebranz, who is battling breast cancer, the softball program's Teammates For Life camp will become an annual event. Cookbook author Lukins dead at 66 from cancer Hindustan Times Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:01 PM PDT Sheila Lukins, a storeowner and cookbook author who helped change how America eats, has died. She was 66. Colleague Laurie Griffith said Lukins died Sunday at her Manhattan home. She was diagnosed with brain cancer three months ago. Prostate cancer screening: More harm than good? Reuters Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:54 PM PDT CHICAGO (Reuters) - Routine screening for prostate cancer has resulted in more than 1 million U.S. men being diagnosed with tumors who might otherwise have suffered no ill effects from them, U.S. researchers said on Monday. Loved ones play big role in newly-diagnosed breast cancer patient surgery decisions, University of Michigan study says The Ann Arbor News Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:54 PM PDT The family member or friend that a newly diagnosed breast cancer patient brings with her - not what she’s being told by a surgeon - may play a bigger role in the kind of surgery she ends up choosing, a...... Race not a factor in liver transplantation Reuters via Yahoo! News Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:50 PM PDT Racial disparities exist in many areas of health care, from heart disease treatment to rates of surviving cancer. And studies have suggested that white patients do better than African Americans following liver transplants. But race may not play a role in survival after liver transplants for hepatitis B infection, nor while waiting for one, according to a new study. Study: Prostate Cancer Test Leads To Overtreatment NPR Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:50 PM PDT The PSA blood test for prostate cancer was once widely pushed as a way to reduce the 27,000 deaths a year from the cancer. But a new study shows the test has not lived up to its promise. Critics charge the test may do harm than good, leading to overdiagnoses that result in treatments with damaging side effects. Contribution of clinical breast examination to breast cancer screening PhysOrg Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:49 PM PDT Breast cancer detection rates and sensitivity were higher, but so were false-positive rates, among mammography centers that offered clinical breast examination in addition to mammography, according to new study published online August 31 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. St. Baldricks Foundation Announces the Appointment of New Board Members dBusinessNews.com Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:48 PM PDT PASADENA, Calif. (August 31, 2009) â€" The St. Baldrick’s Foundation , a non-profit organization dedicated to raising money for childhood cancer research, has appointed Joe Bartlett and Charles Chamness to its Board of Directors. Breast cancer intervention reduces depression, inflammation EurekAlert! Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:48 PM PDT ( Ohio State University Medical Center ) A psychological intervention for newly diagnosed breast cancer patients with symptoms of depression both relieves patients' depression and lowers indicators of inflammation in the blood. The new study by Ohio State University cancer researchers involves patients with stage II or III breast cancer. Patients who received a psychological therapy that reduced ...

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