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Cancer ‘iron man’ puts hope in drug trials – CNN.com
Holding disease at bay Cossman is one of 16 patients with progressive forms of cancer currently taking part in a study of a developmental drug by the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Cerulean Pharma. The company hopes to add another 20 patients to the trial in laboratories in Arizona, California and New Mexico. The test drug is in…
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month; Join in the Events I have known a few women in my circle that are now breast cancer survivors or have had to support a family member who has battled it — and as a care giver of a cancer survivor myself — I have seen firsthand the short…
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Andy Whitfield leaving ‘Spartacus’ to fight Non-hodgkins lymphoma for the 2nd time
‘Spartacus’ loses its hero – USATODAY.com. 36 year old Andy Whitfield from the show Spartacus has to leave the show to pursue aggressive treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma once again…it has returned. Another younger person who should not be having to experience this… Spartacus: Blood and Sand star Andy Whitfield is bowing out of the second…
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Maura Tierney – Breast Cancer Survivor
Maura Tierney ‘I Was So Lucky’ | Parade.com. Her breast-cancer diagnosis was not a “Why me?” moment. “I was so lucky. I had insurance, I found a great team of doctors at UCLA, and I could afford not to work while I was getting treated. From the beginning my doctor told me, ‘You’re going to…
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LFO Singer Rich Cronin Dies of Cancer
LFO Singer Rich Cronin Dies (VIDEO). Although my family is resuming our lives after our cancer battle — I make it a point to not forget there are many many many more people still fighting or embarking on their journey or unfortunately losing their own battle — Here is a young guy -35 years old…
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Cancer is the world’s top economic killer
Report: Cancer is the world’s costliest disease – Yahoo! News. It’s the first major effort to look at the economic cost in terms of global productivity. It was done with Livestrong, cancer survivor and cyclist Lance Armstrong’s foundation. Authors plan to publish it in a scientific journal and to present it Thursday at a meeting…
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Preventing a Recurrence of Cancer
I am committed to regularly including cancer related news, resources and information on livefitandsore.com. Cancer is something that has profoundly affected my family recently and many people around the world are in active treatment or surviving. It is something that needs to be talked about openly and honestly and often. As the first paragraph states:…
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Colon Cancer Research and University of Arizona!
Researcher Awarded $1.8M to Develop Colon Cancer Therapy | UANews.org. I’m an U of Arizona alum so I am always in support of Wildcats! Arizona Cancer Center is a well known cancer research center – Congrats to Emmanuelle J. Meuillet! The National Cancer Institute has awarded a five-year, $1.8 million grant to an Arizona Cancer…
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Fructose helps pancreatic cancer cells to multiply, UCLA study finds
WASHINGTON — Pancreatic tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same. Tumor cells fed both glucose and fructose used the two sugars in two different ways, the team at the University of California Los Angeles found. They…
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Remembering Alex
Today was really not a super exciting day — got some cleaning, organizing done in the house – which is never really done. It’s discouraging too because I have these 2 little things called ‘my kids’ that love to undo a lot of what I do around the house… I did get some alone time…