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A health alliance aims at building programs to educate residents on preventing disease 89.7 WKSU Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:01 PM PST Cuyahoga County is launching an initiative to curb its’ residents’ increasingly poor health. County Executive Ed FitzGerald is building an alliance to help communities fight the growing rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Utah launches 5-year campaign against cancer The Salt Lake Tribune Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:59 PM PST Utah launches 5-year campaign against cancer By heather may The Salt Lake Tribune Published Nov 29, 2011 11:44AM MDT Utah has the nation’s second-lowest cancer rate and the lowest cancer death rate in the country. But it’s the worst state for developing the deadly skin cancer melanoma and one of the top states for prostate cancer deaths. Utah’s new 5-year-plan to prevent and control cancer ... Call to action on cancer affecting women in Miami’s Little Haiti Miami Herald Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:50 PM PST OUR OPINION: Cervical cancer rates too high in Little Haiti Video: Celebs Use Lightsabers to Battle Cancer Wired News Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:45 PM PST Is there a better reason for famous people to have Star Wars-style lightsaber battles than fighting cancer? Probably not, which is why this video is awesome. Celebs from Andy Samberg to Zach Galifianakis get in on the fun in the outtake reel from the original Stand Up to Cancer Use the Force for Good [...] Stalin's Daughter Dies From Colon Cancer NPR Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:39 PM PST Lana Peters, Stalin's daughter died last week of colon cancer in a small town in west-central Wisconsin. She chose to live in Wisconsin at least partly because she had met her husband at Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural headquarters, which is located in the state. There, she met Wes Peters, an architect who worked with Wright. She says she hated her father because he destroyed her life twice ... BSC hoops teams Shoot for the Cure WVVA Bluefield Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:31 PM PST BLUEFIELD (PRESS RELEASE) â€" The Bluefield State College basketball teams are participating in a nationwide fundraiser from the National Foundation for Cancer Research entitled "Shoot for the Cure." The Airline Refuses to Give Refund to Cancer Patient Fox News Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:25 PM PST U.S. Airways said they are standing by their decision not to refund money for tickets purchased by a woman diagnosed with terminal breast cancer. Lynn McKain and her family had purchased five round-trip tickets earlier this year to Belize. Stalin’s daughter dies of cancer aged 85 Gulf Times Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:19 PM PST The only daughter of brutal Soviet tyrant Joseph Stalin â€" who defected to the United States in 1967 and became a vocal critic of the Soviet Union â€" has died at age 85, The New York Times reported. Neogenix Oncology’s Novel Antibody NEO-101 Named One of Windhover's Top 10 Projects to Watch PRWeb Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:14 PM PST Neogenix Oncology, Inc. has announced that the company’s novel antibody NEO-101, which targets pancreatic and colorectal cancer cells, has been selected as one of Windhover’s 2011 Top 10 Projects to Watch. (PRWeb November 29, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/11/prweb9000498.htm Langley firm slammed in suit North Shore News Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:14 PM PST A man who was ripped off by a Langley business selling a supposed cancer treatment has won in court.

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