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Win for Wyeth in Hormone Therapy Case Upheld After Pa. High Court Denies Review
Law.com Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:57 PM PDT
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has declined to hear the first hormone replacement therapy tort case to reach the state's highest court, leaving intact a judgment notwithstanding the verdict in favor of drugmaker Wyeth that wiped out a $3 million jury award for the plaintiff in 2007. The plaintiffs in the HRT litigation allege their breast cancer was caused by Wyeth's and other drugmakers ...

'Dynasty' oil tycoon John Forsythe dies at 92 after cancer fight
Deseret News Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:56 PM PDT
LOS ANGELES â€" John Forsythe, the handsome, smooth-voiced actor who made his fortune as the scheming oil tycoon in TV's...

Positive attitude improves mental health of testicular cancer patients
New Kerala Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:54 PM PDT
Washington, Apr 3 : Men with testicular cancer who write positively about their experience show signs of improved mental health afterward, in contrast to men who write negatively or neutrally about their condition, according to results of a Baylor University pilot study.

Higher vitamin K intake tied to lower cancer risks
AsiaOne Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:44 PM PDT
EW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with higher intakes of vitamin K from food may be less likely to develop or die of cancer, particularly lung or prostate cancers, than those who eat relatively few vitamin-K- containing foods, a new study suggests.

Study links chemical exposure to breast cancer
AsiaOne Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:44 PM PDT
Exposure to certain chemicals and pollutants before a woman reaches her mid-30s could treble her risk of developing breast cancer after the menopause, Canadian scientists said on Thursday.

Pennies for Patients
Kern Valley Sun Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:43 PM PDT
Rio Vista Community Day School has joined schools nationwide in the Pennies for Patients program. “ The program is a service learning program that saves lives. Our students are to bring spare change to school and donate it to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in honor of locally, or nationally, students who are blood cancer survivors,” said teachers Stacey Sanders.

Former county official to chair 2010 Relay for Life
The State Journal-Register Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:43 PM PDT
Susan Dove, who has waged a 20-year battle against cancer, is the honorary chair of this year’s Relay for Life of Sangamon County.  

Jules (Jay) H. Lavoie
The Nashua Telegraph Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:37 PM PDT
Jules (Jay) H. Lavoie, 75, died of cancer at 1:27 p.m. on March 31, 2010 at the Sandhill Gardens retirement community in Punta Gorda, FL. He joins his beloved wife, Lori, who predeceased him on Nov. 20, 2001. Jay was born in Haverhill, MA and had lived most of his life in Nashua, NH. He retired to Florida in November 2009, where he lived until his death.

Dynasty actor John Forsythe passes away at 92
New Kerala Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:36 PM PDT
London, Apr 3 : Television series Dynasty star John Forsythe has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 92.

Study shows Critical Outcome Technologies' oral COTI-2 effective in triple negative human breast cancer
PharmaBiz Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:36 PM PDT
Critical Outcome Technologies Inc announced positive test results from a series of animal experiments carried out at a prominent Canadian cancer research facility with COTI-2 as a single agent against an aggressive strain of triple negative human breast cancer (TNBC); MDA-MB-231-luc.




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