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Massage Therapy To Relieve Cancer Symptoms

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Cancer does not only damage the body but hurts the spirit too. A exhausted body coupled with a weakened spirit is not a fantastic formula when going through this malignant disease. Therefore, it’s essential that we use every conceivable method to minimize any anguish cancer-inflicted persons may suffer. Use of complementary and alternative therapy is [...]

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Bus tour spreads word about breast cancer detection

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Natalie Gierman, director of health promotion policy and advocacy for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation is travelling across Ontario with the pink breast screening bus.

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Research Using Worms To Unearth Cancer Drug Targets

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Through novel experiments involving small nematode worms, scientists from Wyoming have discovered several genes that may be potential targets for drug development in the ongoing war against cancer. Specifically, researchers hypothesize that inhibiting these genes could reverse certain key traits associated with cancer cells…

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ASCO 2012: Radium-223 and Prostate Cancer Survival

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Dr. Chris Parker of Royal Marsden Hospital in London discusses the ALSYMPCA trial of radium-223 (Alpharadin), the first agent to improve prostate cancer survival by targeting bone metastases.

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Prostate Cancer Treatment : Phoenix Cyberknife and Radiation Oncology Center

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“Tomorrow’s Technology to Beat Cancer Today” Terry is a very active 71 year old, from Lake Havasu City, Arizona diagnosed with Prostate Cancer in 2009. After two failed attempts with Cryo and TURP Surgery, Terry was referred by his Urologist to Dr John Kresl at Phoenix Cyberknife and Radiation Oncology Center. Both Terry and Barbara explain their experiences of working with Dr Kresl as well as the staff and other patients they met on their treatment journey. Terry is very impressed that he has been able to maintain his active lifestyle of golfing, fishing, working in his garden, cooking, spending quality time with Barbara, his son and nephews.

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Marin County, California’s high breast cancer rate may be tied to genetics

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Marin County, California has one of the highest rates of breast cancer in the world, a fact that scientists know has nothing to do with the land itself but with some other, unknown factor. A new study that analyzed mouth buccal cell samples stored frozen suggests what this factor may be: a genetic trait present among women within the county’s predominantly white population.

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Daily aspirin usage linked to lower cancer mortality

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A new study provides additional support for a potential benefit of daily aspirin use for cancer mortality, but the authors say important questions remain about the size of the potential benefit.

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Blake Shelton to Make Dreams Come True for 6-Year-Old Girl With Brain Cancer

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Blake Shelton has a tendency to act like life is all fun and games, but the sometimes-sensitive country star knows when to be serious, too.

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Kids whose parents have cancer find comfort at Camp Kesem

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The pastel-colored ball of yarn made its way from one tiny hand to another at the Camp Kesem “empowerment ceremony,” with each camper unraveling their part of a painfully common thread.

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Grapefruit juice boosts effect of cancer drug

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A glass a day of grapefruit juice lets patients derive the same benefits from an anti-cancer drug as they would get from more than three times as much of the drug by itself, according to a new clinical trial.

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