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'Join us to make race biggest yet' Cambridge Evening News Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:00 AM PST A sea of pink filled the streets of Cambridge as teams of volunteers turned out to promote the city’s fast-approaching Race for Life 2011. Women of all ages donned bright pink Cancer Research UK T-shirts to spread the word on Saturday in a bid to make this year’s fundraiser a record-breaker. Pink Zone game sets records Penn State Collegian Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:59 AM PST If Sunday’s turnout was any indication, the Pink Zone game is only going to continue to grow. A record-setting 352 breast cancer survivors and their families and friends came to the Bryce Jordan Center for Sunday afternoon’s Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Pink Zone game. Tests infected the unsuspecting Worcester Telegram & Gazette Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:56 AM PST ATLANTA - Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at a New York hospital. Hairy situation results in cancer awareness fundraiser Waverly News Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:56 AM PST WAVERLY â€" A hairy situation turned out to be a rewarding one. Relay for Life keeps growing in Queens Queens Chronicle Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:45 AM PST Last year’s Middle Village relay has an Olympics theme, top, while St. John’s University featured superheroes, bottom left, and the Alley Pond outing took time to honor cancer survivors. Legendary NL Folk Singer Passes Away Voice of the Common Man Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:45 AM PST Newfoundland and Labrador has lost one of its legendary folk singers. A. Frank Willis passed away Sunday after a battle with cancer. Targeted cancer drug more effective after first-line treatment ANI via Yahoo! India News Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:31 AM PST Washington Feb 28 (ANI): New trials have shown that targeted cancer drug Erlotinib has comparable efficacy to chemotherapy, and is better tolerated, in hard-to-treat cases where a patient's cancer has progressed quickly after treatment with first-line therapy. Durbin: Cuts to NIH put research jobs at risk Washington Examiner Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:28 AM PST The Associated Press The Associated Press CHICAGO U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin says proposed cuts to the National Institute of Health's budget puts thousands of medical research jobs at risk. Durbin expressed his concerns Sunday at Northwestern University's cancer care center in Chicago. He says the federal spending bill approved by the House over the weekend included a $1.6 billion cut to the NIH. The ... Now Playing: Daily community sports news The Star Press Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:26 AM PST Former Muncie residents Anna Vandergras, Illene Vandergras and Nicole Winkler won the Race for Life Cancer Benefit race in Hobart, Ind., on Saturday in their respective age groups for Diva BMX Team. Herbalist lectures on breast cancer Chico Enterprise-Record Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:12 AM PST CHICO â€" "Breast Cancer And Natural Medicine, A Holistic Perspective" will be presented March 10 by Harry Chrissakis, herbalist.

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