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  • Hormone lowers cancer risk Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:42:26 -0600High levels of a hormone that is produced in early pregnancy may lower a woman's risk of breast cancer, according to new research.
  • Just Plain Love Book's New Release: How to Overcome Your Health Problems: Solutions for a BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE! ... Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:05:00 -0600 You don't have to tolerate poor health! Brent Atwater's How to Overcome Your Health Problems:
  • How to Overcome Your Health Problems: Solutions for a BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE! Just Plain Love Book's New Release on ... Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:26:35 -0600 You don't have to tolerate poor health! Brent Atwater's How to Overcome Your Health Problems: Solutions for a BETTER QUALITY of LIFE! (ISBN 1419688464 on Amazon.com and Amazon Kindle), teaches you how to change and heal your poor health. After decades of road testing and developing practical tools and healing solutions for real life health problems and medical conditions, the positive results ...
  • A person in Britain is diagnosed with diabetes every THREE minutes Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:13:36 -0600 The number of people diagnosed with diabetes has soared by 50 per cent in just a year. An analysis of official figures shows at least 150,000 new cases last year – up from 100,000 in 2007.
  • A diabetic is diagnosed in Britain every THREE minutes Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:28:36 -0600 The number of people diagnosed with diabetes has soared by 50 per cent in just a year.
  • Support groups Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:56:54 -0600-American Cancer Society, free program for women in cancer treatment, preregistration is required. Call 1-800-ACS-2345. 2009 dates are: Jan. 12, 10 a.m. to noon, Hamot Medical Center; Feb. 17, 2 to 4 p.m., Saint Vincent Health Center; March 9, 5 to 7 p.m., Hamot Medical Center; April 21, 10 a.m.
  • Health Matters Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:17:06 -0600 THROUGHOUT JANUARY
  • From the Sidelines: Kay Yow's plight inspiring Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:15:54 -0600Kay Yow walked away from her post Tuesday. It was a decision that did not come lightly for a woman as passionate and accomplished as herself. The 66-year-old is the long-time head coach of the North Carolina State women’s basketball team.
  • 3 island chains to be protected Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:19:08 -0600WASHINGTON (AP) — Parts of three remote and uninhabited Pacific island chains are being set aside by President George W. Bush as national monuments to protect them from oil and gas extraction and commercial fishing in what will be the largest marine conservation effort in history.
  • China warns Web sites on blocking pornography Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:19:38 -0600BEIJING (AP) — China warned Google and other popular Web portals Monday that they must do more to block pornographic material from reaching Chinese users, the latest in a series of government crackdowns targeting Internet content.
  • It Pays to Eat Less as You Age Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:20:51 -0600Cutting calories can cut down on pounds in middle age, study says.
  • Nominations are sought for 2009 Josetta Wilkins Awards Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:33:33 -0600Officials with the Arkansas Department of Health and BreastCare are accepting nominations online at www.ARBreastCare.com for the annual Josetta Wilkins Awards now through Feb. 13. This is the first year that BreastCare has offered the option of online nominations.
  • Lifewatch: Chronic Sinusitis Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:04:10 -060016 million Americans suffer from chronic sinusitis, and if they don't get treated quickly it can turn into a dangerous infection.
  • Exec in probe donated to both Obama, Richardson Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:33:54 -0600Associated Press WASHINGTON — A prominent businessman caught up in a grand jury probe whose political donations ended any role for New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson in the Obama administration also was a generous contributor in support of the president-elect.
  • New Conn. school desegregation plan released Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:33:13 -0600Associated Press HARTFORD - A new five-year plan to desegregate Hartford-area schools calls for the state to spend $49 million in the first two years, including increasing payments to suburbs to entice them to accept more Hartford students.
  • Bahamas police investigating Conn. man's death Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:32:43 -0600Associated Press WATERBURY - Police in the Bahamas are giving conflicting statements about their investigation of a Connecticut man's death.
  • Sailor seeks new trial in terrorism case Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:32:23 -0600NEW HAVEN - A federal judge is weighing whether to grant a new trial to a former Navy sailor convicted of leaking details about ship movements to suspected terrorist supporters.
  • LMH brings patients state-of-the-art cancer care Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:09:05 -0600Eight years ago, cancer patients had to travel out of Lawrence to receive treatments, and there was only one doctor who provided oncology care at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. “A lot of times we would see people lined up to catch a van to go to Topeka to get radiation, and gosh, that’s such a debilitating process,” CEO Gene Meyer said. “It was really depressing what those folks had to go through.”
  • Medicare Rebate For Breast MRI, Australia Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:12:33 -0600A Medicare rebate for an MRI breast scan will be available to women under 50 at high risk of breast cancer and with no symptoms from 1 February 2009. Being at high risk of breast cancer can cause significant anxiety. These scans can help reduce unnecessary concern, and help pick up breast cancer early.
  • Parker pair will ride with Obama Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:05:00 -0600 Patricia and Tedd Stiles came home Tuesday from a week at their mountain cabin only to discover their journey just beginning.
  • Stacey Hartmann, longtime fighter for ovarian cancer awareness, dies Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:53:10 -0600n Stacey Hartmann, who founded Comedy Night to raise funds for research, succumbs after eight-year battle
  • Vols making a difference fighting cancer Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:36:36 -0600Brooks Savage had seen enough of what cancer can do to a family. Then he saw what it can do to a team. That's when the graduate assistant for the University of Tennessee men's basketball team decided he had to do something.
  • Health Matters Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:47:48 -0600 Breast Cancer Support Group
  • Six Things Women Should Know About the Pap Test Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:28:41 -0600January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center shares important information about the cervical cancer screening exam, the Pap test.
  • Disease Invades a Body, and Endorphins Kick In Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:42:16 -0600Many who are faced with a chronic condition or a terminal diagnosis find a new purpose in exercise, developing regimens that leave them in the best shape of their lives.
  • Team Metro founder a 'warrior' in cancer fight Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:50:42 -0600She was known as a ''cancer warrior,'' and she fought the disease personally and publicly for 14 years. Debbie Curtin, founding director of Miami-Dade County's Team Metro and a powerhouse American Cancer Society volunteer, finally succumbed to breast cancer on Aug. 11. Tumors had spread all over her body, despite eight years of nonstop chemotherapy.
  • New 'PEM' technology may pinpoint cancer Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:00:04 -0600A new tool is being used at one local hospital that is helping doctors pinpoint exactly the best care for cancer patients.
  • Tiny particles lead medicine from science fiction to nanorobots fighting cancer Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:26:00 -0600TORONTO - More than 40 years ago, the film "Fantastic Voyage" took moviegoers on a journey that was pure science fiction - a submarine and its crew were shrunk to the size of a cell and injected into the bloodstream of a dying scientist.
  • Couple survives cancer together Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:22:07 -0600Carol Haynes/Daily Press Bill and Glenda Beasley were both diagnosed with cancer, and shared their stories of cancer survival. A positive attitude is the secret to surviving cancer, breast cancer survivor Glenda Beasley said.
  • DeMATTEO: St. Pio has answered the prayers of a number of area believers Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:35:15 -0600Editor’s note: This is Ann DeMatteo’s 22nd column following her diagnosis with breast cancer. Today, we add the word “Inspirations” to her column.
  • Inflammatory Breast Cancer: A Complex Disease Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:10:43 -0600This article reviews the following: "Molecular Determinants of the Inflammatory Breast Cancer Phenotype". The recognition of the existence of an aggressive, lethal subtype of breast cancer known as inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) dates back to 1924, when the first comprehensive assessment of IBC, based on a series of 28 patients, was presented by Lee and Tannenbaum.
  • Team Finds Breast Cancer Gene Linked To Disease Spread Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:11:53 -0600A team of researchers at Princeton University and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey has identified a long-sought gene that is fatefully switched on in 30 to 40 percent of all breast cancer patients, spreading the disease, resisting traditional chemotherapies and eventually leading to death.
  • Breast Cancer Gene Linked To Disease Spread Discovered Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:32:13 -0600Researchers have identified a long-sought gene that is fatefully switched on in 30 to 40 percent of all breast cancer patients, spreading the disease, resisting traditional chemotherapies and eventually leading to death. In doing so, the scientists may have answered one of the biggest mysteries in cancer research.
  • Trying to prevent lymphedema after breast cancer Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:38:02 -0600WASHINGTON — Hospitals in about a dozen states are testing whether some simple steps, such as arm-strengthening exercises, could reduce the risk of one of breast cancer’s troubling legacies — the painful and sometimes severe arm swelling called lymphedema.
  • Marital distress may affect breast cancer recovery Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:25:10 -0600Marriage problems are associated with poorer outcomes for women with breast cancer, a new U.S. study finds.
  • Team Finds Breast Cancer Gene Linked to Disease Spread Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:28:56 -0600Scientists at two New Jersey institutions have identified a long-sought gene responsible for metastasis in 30 to 40 percent of all breast cancer patients. The research, published in the January 6 edition of Cancer Cell, also describes how this gene is resistant to traditional chemotherapy treatments.
  • Gene tied to spread of breast cancer is found, study says Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:11:36 -0600It also makes disease resistant to chemotherapy; 40 percent of patients had 'bad-prognosis' gene Researchers have identified a gene that appears crucial to the spread of breast cancer while also making the disease resistant to chemotherapy.
  • Lung cancer to overtake breast cancer Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:10:07 -0600LUNG cancer will soon kill more females than breast cancer as women lag behind men in getting the anti-smoking message, according to the latest snapshot on Australian cancer rates.
  • Program offers lifeline to young women with breast cancer Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:55:11 -0600By editorial Tuesday, 6 January 2009 - 1:52pm. TORONTO—Some are young mothers in their 30s, others 20-somethings starting their first jobs, and on rare occasions they are even teenage girls just finishing high school.
  • Program offers lifeline to women with breast cancer Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:35:40 -0600Some are young mothers in their 30s, others 20-somethings starting their first jobs. At an age when most of their peers are establishing intimate relationships, these young women are facing a demon they hadn't expected to worry about for many years.
  • Cancer survivor bares her story for calendar Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:02:37 -0600Pam Travis, of Issaquah, appears in the Angel Care Calendar 2009 as Miss May. By Gail Ann Watson.  One Issaquah woman is baring it all to make a point — well, almost all of it. Among carefully placed, bright-green leaves, Pam Travis, an Issaquah resident and breast cancer survivor, poses for the sixth time in this [...]
  • Book review: 'The Mercy Papers' and 'Downtown Owl' Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:26:39 -0600In her memoir Robin Romm grapples with her anguish over the impending death of her mother from breast cancer, and in his novel Chuck Klosterman writes about a fictional Everytown of Owl, North Dakota.
  • Study links breast cancer spread, gene Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:26:02 -0600Hopkins expert cautions of need for further research Hopkins expert cautions of need for further research
  • PYNK offers lifeline for young women with breast cancer Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:10:28 -0600-Some are young mothers in their 30s, others 20- somethings starting their first jobs, and on rare occasions they are even teenage girls just finishing [...]
  • Cyclophilin B Is A Possible New Target For Treating Breast Cancer Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:13:09 -0600Dr. Charles Clevenger and colleagues at Northwestern University have uncovered that cyclophilin B may contribute to progression in breast cancer. Their report can be found in the January 2009 issue of The American Journal of Pathology. The protein cyclophilin B affects cell division, motility, and death, all of which are altered in cancerous cells.
  • More Women Like Yow Are Living With Breast Cancer Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:40:18 -0600NCSU women’s basketball coach Kay Yow’s perseverance in her ongoing battle with breast cancer is a testament to advances in treatment of the disease, say oncologists.
  • When Mammograms Aren't Enough: New Innovations Help Catch Breast Cancer Early Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:23:44 -0600(ARA) - Following a false diagnosis of stomach cancer, it took five years of countless doctors, tests and hospital visits before Barbara Robertson was accurately diagnosed with breast cancer.
  • Serious swelling - Exercises may prevent lymphedema after breast cancer Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:12:31 -0600Lymphedema specialist Johanna Murphy, left, shows breast cancer survivor Anne Holman an exercise to treat her lymphedema at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.
  • On the Move With a New Breast Cancer Resource Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:18:41 -0600(ARA) - When a woman is first diagnosed with breast cancer, all kinds of questions go through her mind, and not all of them are about the cancer itself. "Will I be able to remain active? What kind of impact will treatment have on my lifestyle? Can I still be intimate with my significant other?"
  • More Women Like Yow Are Living With Breast Cancer Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:28:48 -0600 NCSU women's basketball coach Kay Yow's perseverance in her ongoing battle with breast cancer is a testament to advances in treatment of the disease, say oncologists. Related Story: NC State's Yow Won't Return For Rest of Season Yow announced Tuesday that she is stepping down as coach because of her cancer. First diagnosed in 1987 at the age of 45, Yow had a recurrence in 2004. In 2006, ...