Katie Couric stops through Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay’s 10, FL -
Latinas fighting odds when it comes to cervical cancer
Sun-Sentinel.com, FL -
Nutrition Q&A: Flaxseed's high nutrition value is making it
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA -
Breakthroughs, tips and trends
The Sunday Times, UK -
ProlX Pharmaceuticals Corp. Awarded $4.5 Million in Small Business
Genetic Engineering News - Trx-1, a growth stimulating redox protein, is over-expressed in a wide variety of human tumors, including colon, gastric and pancreatic cancer. PX-12, a small molecule which blocks the growth-promoting activity of Trx-1, has been evaluated in a Phase
AMDL Compiles DR-70(R) Data for U.S. FDA
MSN MoneyCentral - In a study published in the Journal of Immunoassay (1998, vol. 19, pp 63-72) DR-70(R) was shown to detect at least 13 different types of cancer (lung, breast, stomach, liver, colon, rectal, ovarian, esophageal, cervical, trophoblastic, thyroid
Repligen Wins Summary Judgment Against ImClone in Erbitux(R) Case
MSN MoneyCentral - Erbitux(R) was approved by the FDA in February 2004 for certain types of colon cancer. In May 2004, Repligen and MIT filed an action against ImClone for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 4,663,281 based on ImClone’s manufacture and sale of Erbitux(R
Controversial Phillipsburg coach praised at meeting
Allentown Morning Call - James Nicholas, whose pioneering work on sports injuries included four operations on Joe Namath’s knees, has died of colon cancer at age 85. TENNIS Frenchman Paul Henri Mathieu beat Alessio de Mauro of Italy 6-0, 6-3 in the opening round of the
Knowing the answers to these tests can bring about a better grade for
Memphis Commercial Appeal - Colon cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in America. When and how often: Starting at age 50 for the average-risk patient, or earlier if there is family history or symptoms that may include unexplained rectal bleeding, significant
Part 1 - No time to wait: ‘It’s a huge mental strain to have cancer’
St. Catharines Standard - Jul 13 10:09 AM
SUZANNE’S STORY She thought she had beaten it. But in late 2003, Suzanne Aucoin was rediagnosed with a terminal case of colorectal cancer. The Standard is following Suzanne’s fight with cancer in this continuing series.Save to My Web
Women’s Wellness
RedNova - Jul 27 8:13 AM
By Anonymous Don’t Forget Your Eye Exam Having a complete eye examination helps preserve vision and reduces the risk of eye diseases. Younger women who become pregnant may experience refractive changes or puffy eyelids that obscure side vision due to hormonal shifts.Save to My Web
Kroll in a marathon race against cancer
La Crosse Tribune - Jul 18 10:30 PM
ONALASKA, Wis. When Onalaska resident Derrick Kroll was inducted into the Boys and Girls Club of Greater La Crosse Alumni Association Wall of Fame last November, he said the club was a big part of his life.Save to My Web
Shooting to help
San Angelo Standard-Times - Jul 23 2:01 AM
Karl Braden says that every day when he wakes up, he is grateful for his family and being able to see the sun rise. The 50-year-old San Angeloan was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in December.Save to My Web
Revving up funds to aid cancer work
San Jose Mercury News - Jul 27 7:25 AM
As guests at the San Jose Grand Prix’s $500-a-plate fundraiser Saturday savor mango creme brulee and relax to the music of the Doobie Brothers, they’ll be contributing money to research that one day could lead to a simple blood test for cancer.Save to My Web
Bradley Pharmaceuticals Skin Cancer Screening Tour Helps Save Lives By Encouraging Visits To Dermatologists
Medical News Today - Jul 31 12:16 AM
BradleyPharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE: BDY) announced today that The Skin CancerScreening Tour, sponsored by Bradley’s Doak Dermatologics subsidiary inpartnership with The Skin Cancer Foundation, has screened to date more than3400 individuals. [click link for full article]Save to My Web
e C e n t r a l
The Star Online - Jul 30 7:54 PM
Ozzy Osbourne has ventured into the fashion industry by unveiling a new line of T-shirts in New York. The Hard Rock Cafe Signature Series Ozzy Osbourne T-Shirts will be available for sale at Hard Rock Cafes, with all proceeds going to the Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer programme.Save to My Web
Cancer Care Can Sap a Lifetime of Savings
RedNova - Jul 26 5:16 AM
By Liz Szabo Frank Beck never put a price on the value of his life before he was diagnosed with cancer. In the first six months of therapy, however, his care cost his health plan and family more than $150,000.Save to My Web
AMDL Confirms Special Shareholders Meeting in September
[Press Release] PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Jul 27 12:18 PM
AMDL, Inc. , developer and marketer of tests for the early detection of cancer and other serious diseases, today said that a shareholder notice and proxy statement is being mailed this week to shareholders regarding a Special Meeting to be held on September 8, 2006, at 10 a.m. at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, 17900 Jamboree Road, Irvine, California.Save to My Web
Genzyme Launches New Diagnostic Test for Common Blood Cancer
RedNova - Jul 27 11:11 AM
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Genzyme Corporation announced today the availability of its p53 Mutation Analysis for B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL). P53 is a tumor suppressor gene that stops cell division when DNA damage is present.Save to My Web
Older Americans choosing to ignore colorectal cancer
The Advocate - Jul 25 4:24 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s the cancer with the yuck factor, that part of the anatomy lots of people would rather ignore. And too many are ignoring it possibly to death: Nearly 42 million Americans over 50 years old aren’t getting checks for colorectal cancer, the nation’s No. 2 cancer killer.Save to My Web
Clinical trials in S’pore unveil encouraging results to treat colon cancer
Channel NewsAsia via Yahoo! Singapore News - Jul 27 7:17 AM
SINGAPORE : Early clinical trials at the National Cancer Centre have unveiled encouraging results for colon cancer sufferers.Save to My Web
Bradley Pharmaceuticals Skin Cancer Screening Tour Helps Save Lives By Encouraging Visits to Dermatologists
RedNova - Jul 28 9:15 AM
FAIRFIELD, N.J., July 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Bradley Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that The Skin Cancer Screening Tour, sponsored by Bradley’s Doak Dermatologics subsidiary in partnership with The Skin Cancer Foundation, has screened to date more than 3400 individuals.Save to My Web
Names & notes: FDA grants Intracel study special protocol assessment
Gazette.Net - Jul 27 7:11 PM
Intracel, a Frederick biotechnology company developing patient-specific cancer immunotherapies, has been granted a special protocol assessment by the FDA for the execution of a Phase III clinical trial of OncoVAX, a tumor-specific whole cell immunotherapy designed to attack cancer cells in stage II colon carcinoma.Save to My Web
Cancer care can sap a lifetime of savings
USA Today - Jul 25 6:07 PM
Frank Beck never put a price on the value of his life before he was diagnosed with cancer. In the first six months of therapy, however, his care cost his health plan and family more than $150,000. Like a growing number of cancer patients who are treated with expensive new therapies, Beck worries about exhausting his family’s savings to delay his death. He was diagnosed in June 2005 with advanced Save to My Web
Colonoscopy Can Save Lives
RedNova - Jul 30 9:11 AM
By Juana M. Gyek, The Sun, Yuma, Ariz. Jul. 30–Having a colonoscopy and having a doctor work on that part of their body is an uncomfortable subject with some people. Cristiana Bortuzzo, a Yuma gastroenterologist, said people are scared of this test until they have it.Save to My Web
Ozzy ready to rock again
Sydney Morning Herald - Jul 28 8:18 PM
Former Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne is working on two new albums and the first one could be ready by February. “I don’t want to release an album if it’s not a great album,” the 1970s heavy metal pioneer said in an interview in New York today, declining to give many details about the album.Save to My Web
Cancer mars lives of some weighing ‘08 run
Des Moines Register - Tom Daschle’s father survived colon cancer. Cancer also struck home for former Sen. John She has only recently re-emerged into public life following her treatment, with an appearance Thursday before Polk County Democrats. The cancer appears to be
Jim West, former Spokane Mayor, dies in Seattle hospital
KXLY - The former Republican state senate majority leader was diagnosed with colon cancer in early 2003 that later spread to his liver trail, West remained a strong presence in his first year of office through three rounds of chemotherapy and treatment. But
Free Care Is Focus of Hospital Debate
Valley News - and orthopedic surgeon James Murphy, right, discuss his injured wrist on Tuesday at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon. Shannon has received financial assistance from the hospital on several occasions, including treatment for colon cancer
Creative community comes together for ailing artist
Shreveport Times - III, Alan Dyson, Blue Martin, Carlos Colon, Joe Osborn, Lip Service and the Dan Sanchez Band, perform on the “Live for Griffin, 20 pounds lighter from his first round of cancer treatment, approached the stage with a walker to play his guitar. Gayle
Passages this week
Seattle Times - Chen Jinlang, 45, a popular Chinese-language pop singer, died of colon cancer Tuesday in Singapore. Louise Simone Bennett-Coverly, 86, a Jamaican poet and folklorist who popularized her country’s culture before Jamaica’s independence from Britain, died
Brain Metastases
WSTM - The targets would be “multiple solid tumor types, any solid tumor,” such as breast cancer or colon cancer, he said. There are indications that TM-601 is more than just a radiation carrier, Mamelak said. “The idea is that it may be synergistic and
Do-It-Yourself Medicine Makes Inroads
WCAX - There are also kits for screening for urinary tract infections, colon cancer and even HIV. There are home cholesterol tests that can give you a total cholesterol count. The problem with these screens is they can’t break down that number into its more
Ozzy gets creative for a good cause
MP3.TV - The t-shirts will be sold at the caf , and all proceeds will go towards Sharon Osbourne’s Colon Cancer Program. The Colon Cancer Program works to improve the lives of patients and their loved ones by providing at-home help, childcare, transportation
Ousted Spokane mayor remembered at funeral
Olympian - West, a former Republican state Senate majority leader, was diagnosed in early 2003 with colon cancer that later spread to his liver. For nearly three decades, West held numerous elected positions. He was a conservative state senator who had opposed
Cancer mars lives of some weighing ‘08 run
Des Moines Register - Tom Daschle’s father survived colon cancer. Cancer also struck home for former Sen. John She has only recently re-emerged into public life following her treatment, with an appearance Thursday before Polk County Democrats. The cancer appears to be
Bladder Cancer
HealthScout - and in some cases, has spread through the bladder wall to nearby organs, such as the rectum, sigmoid colon Treatment of Bladder Cancer There are four main types of treatment for bladder cancer : surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy and
PAHO Basic Health Indicator Data Base
Pan American Health Organization - of food intake and provision of essential goods are assured, with differential treatment Among the most frequent cancer sites were trachea, bronchia, and lung (22%) as well as colon and rectum (9%). Among men, sites included the prostate
Women with breast cancer find a sisterhood of support
East Bay - Booth, who provides her skills free of charge to women going through treatment. Bristol resident Dana Browne shares Ms. Booth’s connection to women and beauty. Ms. Browne, 24, was devastated when her grandmother passed away from colon cancer in 1995
Kayaking For A Cause
Westport News - Subsequent tests revealed his and his wife Dianna’s worst nightmare: stage IV colon cancer. From that point, Cutler sought treatment
Colon Cancer Screening Health Spotlight Launched on Free Health Portal
[Press Release] PR Web via Yahoo! News - Jul 05 5:00 AM
Great Neck, N.Y. (PRWEB) July 5, 2006 — Colon cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the U.Save to My Web
Bright Children
KWWL-TV Iowa City - Jul 06 1:57 PM
Changes in one part of the brain might help explain why some children are exceptionally bright. Researchers used MRI technology to study the brains of more than 300 children.Save to My Web
Health Highlights: July 1, 2006
HealthDay via Yahoo! News - Jul 01 8:54 PM
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:Save to My Web
Katie Couric Ends Nationwide Tour in San Francisco
The Epoch Times - Jul 19 3:18 PM
CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric ended her nationwide tour in San Francisco on Monday, July 17, meeting informally with viewers and promoting cancer awareness.Couric spoke about cancer preve…Save to My Web
Shooting to help
San Angelo Standard-Times - Jul 23 2:01 AM
Karl Braden says that every day when he wakes up, he is grateful for his family and being able to see the sun rise. The 50-year-old San Angeloan was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in December.Save to My Web
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