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Astro-graph
Lake County News-Sun Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:02 AM PDT
Taurus (April 20-May 20): Profit from your past mistakes and do something about them by making a new start with a relationship that hasn't been going too well for you. Things can be patched up with a new beginning. Gemini (May 21-June 20): Your creative juices are running strong, so if there is anything that needs sprucing up, now is the time to put your flourishing ideas to work. Cancer (June ...

Free makeovers give spirits a boost
Chicago Sun-Times Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:02 AM PDT
Women who are battered and in a shelter or fighting breast cancer are eligible for a free makeover Monday in Calumet City.In tribute to upcoming Mother's Day, the staff from the Trenz Beauty Academy are "reaching out to women who need uplifting, confidence and a boost to their self-esteem." Women who have a deceased mother also are eligible.Licensed stylists, makeup artists and nail technicians ...

DONATIONS
The Herald News Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:02 AM PDT
Fighting cancer JOLIET -- Lincoln-Way West and Lincoln-Way North high schools' varsity boys' soccer teams presented a check for $650 to the Silver Cross Foundation in support of Prostate Cancer Awareness recently. "We hope to make this an annual event," Mike Murphy, Lincoln-Way North varsity soccer coach, said.The proceeds will go to the hospital's oncology department and will be used for cancer ...

Flower can boost efficiency of anti-cancer drugs by one million times
Sify News Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:00 AM PDT
An extract from the white bloom can boost the efficiency of anti-cancer drugs by one million times, claim scientists.

JAN VAN DER MARCK | 1929-2010: Museum's guiding light was artists' champion
Chicago Sun-Times Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:00 AM PDT
Jan van der Marck, first director of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, brought Christo here to wrap the museum and believed so strongly in his artists that he once engaged in a public tussle with an astronaut.Mr. van der Marck, who was 80, died of cancer Monday at his Michigan home.The Netherlands native brought a combination of glitter and gravitas to the museum when it opened in 1967. Two ...

Fast cancer test could save thousands
The Monterey County Herald Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:00 AM PDT
LONDON â€" A five-minute colon cancer test could reduce the number of deaths from the disease by about 40 percent, a new study says. British researchers followed more than 170,000 people for about 11 years.

DONATED KIDNEY CANCEROUS
The Monterey County Herald Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:59 AM PDT
RALEIGH, N.C. â€" Bob Warzel had what he thought was a successful kidney transplant a year ago. Two weeks later, he learned that the gift contained a hidden surprise â€" cancer. Warzel, 66, who had the donated organ removed, has not developed the lymphoma evident in the kidney.

£30,000 boost for St Mary’s
Isle of Wight County Press Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:56 AM PDT
Taking delivery of new equipment to help stop cancer patients losing their hair while having chemotherapy are, from left, Glenn Paxman of manufacturers, Paxman, Claire Bevis of the Walk the Walk charity and Richard Sainsbury, consultant surgeon at St Mary's Hospital.

CINJ trial targets new combination therapy for advanced solid tumors
News-Medical-Net Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:55 AM PDT
Building off recent laboratory discoveries relating to how cancer cells become resistant to therapies that attempt to starve cancer, scientists at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) are now applying that knowledge to a process in which cancer cells eat themselves to downsize and resist therapy. The ultimate goal of this effort is to improve upon current anticancer treatments.

Atrium Opens at Grand Falls-Windsor Cancer Centre
Voice of the Common Man Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:50 AM PDT
A fully furnished atrium at the Cancer Care Centre in Grand Falls-Windsor is officially open to the public. Lynette Hillier of the Dr. H. Bliss Murphy Cancer Care Foundation says it's a great addition to the facility.




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