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Weigh Age, Risk In Cancer Screening
Womens Cancer Network - When is a person too old to benefit from cancer screening tests? The answer, experts say, depends less on age than on the type of cancer, the test and individual characteristics of the person to be screened. that turns out not to be cancer; detection and treatment of a cancer that would never have become people for cancers of the colon and rectum, breast and cervix was

5-Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Improves Survival
PakTribune.com - May Protect Against Colon Cancer Painkillers cut risk of mouth cancer, study finds Skin cancer may be Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer. ‘ There are clearly important

The nude mouse tale: Omega-3 fats save the life of a terminal cancer patient
Medical News Today - growth of human mammary, ovarian, colon, prostate and pancreatic cancer cells that were injected into athymic is optimistic of what his findings may contribute to cancer treatment.

Health Tip: Home Care Patients Have Rights
HealthScout - Receive information necessary to give informed consent prior to treatment or therapy com) (www.cancerissues.com)Colon Cancer (www.coloncancertoday.com) (www.depressionissues

Eisenhower breaks new ground in prostate treatment
thedesertsun.com - undergo new treatment for prostate cancer KNOW THE SYMPTOMS Many men with prostate cancer notice no symptoms feels very confident.’I had colon cancer in 1978,’ Rogers said Thursday

International Early Lung Cancer Project
nbc4.com - International Early Lung Cancer Project Lung cancer results in more deaths than breast, cervix, colon, and prostate cancer combined. Since lung cancer has no symptoms in its early

African-Americans Have Higher Risk Of Colon Cancer Than Other Races
All Headline News - find that young African Americans are at a much higher risk for colon cancer than other races likely to present without specific symptoms, and making colonoscopy a better screening

Cancer screenings aren’t always worth the risks
Rocky Mountain News - to be used for healthy people - those with no cancer symptoms. Its main benefit is its ability to people for cancers of the colon, rectum, breast and cervix was reviewed

OTC pain reliever warning, colon cancer diabetes connection; colon
WTNH, CT - Oct 31, 2005 Medical University of South Carolina say they ve found people with diabetes were almost one and a half times more likely to have colon cancer as individuals

Race, sex, diabetes up colon cancer risk
United Press International - Oct 31, 2005 31 (UPI) — A series of studies on colon cancer reveal race, sex and other illnesses may put an individual at more of a risk of developing the disease.

Blacks diagnosed with colon cancer at younger age
ABC News - Oct 31, 2005 Oct 31, 2005 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - African-Americans are more susceptible to colon cancer at an earlier age than are whites, new study findings

Black Muslim Bakery has had a long and checkered history
San Francisco Chronicle, United States - 10 hours ago Bey died of colon cancer in October 2003 while awaiting trial on 27 counts of sex crimes, including at least one count in which DNA identified him as the

New blood test for colon cancer
Asbury Park Press, NJ - Nov 1, 2005 Asimple blood test could be an accurate, easy way to spot colorectal cancer early, a team of American and German researchers report.

Preventative health care 
Cadillac News - 8 minutes ago
CADILLAC - Karen Keesler, a breast cancer survivor of 12 years, has an upbeat attitude about a lot of things. Watching her son, Thomas, participate in athletics and just spending time with him tops that list.Save to My Web

Two men arrested in liquor store vandalism case 
San Francisco Chronicle - Nov 29 5:14 PM
(11-29) 17:04 PST OAKLAND — Two men, one of them believed to be an official of a black Muslim group, were arrested today in connection with the vandalism of two West Oakland markets by a group of men in suits and bow ties who demanded that the outlets stop…Save to My Web

Courage in the Face of Death 
RedNova - Nov 27 8:35 PM
By Annie Freeda Cruez KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. - One Friday early last year, Cheryl received a telephone call that would change her life forever. A doctor gave the 36-year-old mother of one the news everyone hopes they will never hear: she had cancer.Save to My Web

Health Discovery Corporation Announces Significant Expansion of Its Intellectual Property Portfolio 
[Press Release] Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Nov 28 5:20 PM
SAVANNAH, Ga.—-Nov. 28, 2005–Please replace the release with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions.Save to My Web

Virtual colonoscopy technology improves 
UPI - Nov 28 12:20 PM
CHICAGO, Nov. 28 (UPI) — Computed tomography colonography with computer-aided detection is reportedly highly effective for finding colon polyps, said scientists Monday in Chicago.Save to My Web

Guagua bids beloved leader farewell 
Sun Star - Nov 28 9:14 AM
BETIS, Guagua - “People like him are not meant to be buried,” so said Fr. Pablo “Ambo” David during a homily at the mass-cum-necrological rites for the late former mayor Manuel P. Santiago Saturday morning.Save to My Web

Powerful Breast Cancer Drug Carries High Price 
Health Scout - Nov 29 8:15 PM
Herceptin fights malignancy — but at $40,000 a year, experts say.Save to My Web

Rogers undergoing medical treatment 
Florida Baptist Witness - Nov 17 1:38 PM
EDITORS NOTE: This story went to press Nov. 10 as news broke a few days before that Dr. Rogers was in the hospital. The Nov. 17 issue of the Witness went to press earlier than normal in order to have the paper available for distribution at the Florida Baptist State Convention meeting in Ocala.Save to My Web

Horses for courses. Comparative gastroenterology: common ground and collaborative potential 
British Medical Journal - Nov 24 3:18 PM
Gastrointestinal diseases, including motility and obstructive disorders, are common in both human 1 and veterinary 2 medicine.Save to My Web

Pfizer CEO sees Celebrex rebound
Reuters - to prevent polyps that can cause colon cancer.McKinnell defended the drug’s safety, however Diflucan anti-fungal drug, epilepsy treatment Neurontin and Accupril for high blood

Being in dark on pancreatic cancer is deadly
Journal-Gazette - forms of the disease, such as breast cancer and colon cancer, there are no effective early detection methods He had one chemotherapy treatment the next day and died at home

UPDATE 1-Reuters Summit-Amgen confident of 4 drug approvals
Reuters - being studied as a treatment for colon cancer, osteoporosis treatment denosumab, AMG 706, a cancer drug designed growth in patients with advanced colon cancer who did not respond to

Joint Israeli-US team finds thyroid drug reduces colon cancer risk by 50%
Israel 21c - the drug L-thyroxin, most commonly used for the treatment of an underactive thyroid, can halve the risk of CRC, especially right-sided colon cancer, is known to be associated with

New blood test for colon cancer
Asbury Park Press, NJ - Nov 1, 2005 Asimple blood test could be an accurate, easy way to spot colorectal cancer early, a team of American and German researchers report.

Beware Of Fake Cures & Other Medical Frauds On The Web
PR Web (press release), WA - Nov 28, 2005 They actually say their pill is Camptosar, a Pfizer drug used for treatming colon cancer, but it s clearly not Camptosar. According

Path-breaking research: turmeric as a chemopreventive agent
HappyNews.com, TX - 13 hours ago up at the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology in Trivandrum (India) suggests that curcumin induces apoptosis in cancer cells from the colon, kidney, blood

Diabetics at Higher Risk of Colon Cancer
Medscape (subscription) - Nov 2, 2005 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Nov 02 - Having diabetes increases an individual's risk of developing colon cancer, investigators report this week at the 70th Annual

Cancer Treatment Market for VEGF Inhibitors to Reach $5.3 Billion
SeniorJournal.com, TX - 5 hours ago patients' lives by about five months when given intravenously as a combination treatment along with standard chemotherapy drugs for colon cancer (the "Saltz

Being in dark on pancreatic cancer is deadly
Journal-Gazette - forms of the disease, such as breast cancer and colon cancer, there are no effective early detection methods He had one chemotherapy treatment the next day and died at home

Eisenhower breaks new ground in prostate treatment
thedesertsun.com - new treatment for prostate cancer KNOW THE colon cancer in 1978,’ Rogers said Thursday at a news conference at the medical center’s Arnold Palmer Prostate Center.’The treatment

Reflux-Linked Esophagus Cancer On the Rise
ABCNEWS.com - and, currently, there are few effective prevention, screening or treatment methods available are expected to develop colon cancer in 2005, according to the American Cancer Society.

Israeli-US study: Thyroid drug reduces colon cancer risk by 50%
Israel 21c - The drug L-thyroxin, most commonly used for the treatment of an underactive thyroid, can halve the risk of CRC, especially right-sided colon cancer, is known to be associated with

LePharmacy.com Distributes Award Winning ALS Documentary - Canadian Internet Pharmacy Intermediary LePharmacy.com  
[Press Release] PR Web - Nov 28 12:18 AM
Canadian Internet Pharmacy Intermediary www.LePharmacy.com announces they will distribute free copies of the ALS documentary film “The Man Who Learned to Fall”. The film received 2 awards at the 2005 FREDDIES. This free DVD is part of Le Pharmacy “Living With Series” created to provide support tools for friends and family of people living with ALS and other life threatening illnesses. [PRWEB Nov Save to My Web

Young cancer researchers honored 
Medical News Today - Nov 21 4:08 PM
Three young investigators who have made major accomplishments in cancer research will be the recipients of the 2005 Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research and will share a $150,000 award, announced Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC).The winners are Tyler E. Jacks, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), who has advanced our Save to My Web

Too Many Cancer Patients Continue to Smoke 
Health Scout - Nov 28 1:45 PM
MONDAY, Nov. 28 (HealthDay News) — Cancer patients would receive better care if doctors did more to help patients quit using tobacco after they’re diagnosed with cancer and if researchers monitored patient tobacco use during clinical trials of new cancer drugs, two new studies suggest.Save to My Web

A Fresh Perspective on Tamiflu 
New York Times - Nov 25 6:59 PM
Franz B. Humer, chief executive of Roche, the Swiss pharmaceutical company, discussed the company’s antiviral medicine, which is being stockpiled in case of a bird-flu pandemic.Save to My Web

‘Silent’ nighttime acid reflux symptoms can cause poor sleep and sleep apnea 
Medical News Today - Nov 03 4:01 PM
Patients with sleep complaints but no heartburn symptoms suffered episodes of nighttime acid reflux according to research presented at the 70th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology.Save to My Web

Matritech Helps Launch Bladder Health Awareness Week, November 14-20 Page of 4 Matritech Helps Launch Bladder Health  
[Press Release] Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Nov 10 5:00 AM
NEWTON, Mass.—-Nov. 10, 2005–Matritech, Inc. a leading developer of protein-based diagnostic products for the early detection of cancer has joined forces with leading urologists, urology nurses, community based healthcare providers, bladder cancer patient advocates and firefighters to raise awareness of bladder cancer and help launch National Bladder Health Awareness Week, November 14-20.Save to My Web

Radiation Treatment Prolonged Liver Cancer Patients’ Lives 
Newswise - Nov 28 3:19 PM
Researchers are reporting success with a new method of attacking liver cancer. Radiation is aimed precisely at the tumor and 400 times the normal amount of chemotherapy is fed directly to the liver, delivering an intensive punch to the tumor while limiting exposure to normal tissue.Save to My Web

Birth Order Impacts Maternal Solicitousness of Children’s GI Symptoms 
Newswise - Oct 30 9:15 PM
New research suggests that birth order impacts child perceptions of maternal solicitousness toward GI symptoms, particularly in families where the mother has Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).Save to My Web