• Zeb’s Life-Saving Surgery

    Updated: 2010-08-31 21:06:43
    Sawyer “Zeb” Lyle had a slight heart murmur when he was born three weeks early in March 2007. That’s common for a preemie and it should have cleared up in a week or two. But that’s not what happened. At four weeks Zeb was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect and had to be rushed [...]

  • Generation Scotland overcomes recruitment challenge with Oragene•DNA

    Updated: 2010-08-31 18:08:00
    Subscribe by Email Your : email About DNA Genotek Welcome to The Genetic Link a blog from DNA Genotek written to provide new insights about DNA and RNA sample collection . Join us for the latest news or learn more at www.dnagenotek.com Most Popular Posts Rinse , Swab or Spit What's the Real Source of DNA in Saliva 7 Simple Steps to Maximize DNA Yield with Oragene•DNA Saliva-based DNA Collection Solves a Tropical Disease Mystery DNA Genotek's Top 10 List for 2009 Lifestyle Management , Weight Loss and Genetics Introducing Performagene•LIVESTOCK DNA Genotek's Newest Product Hunting for Cancer Genes with DNA from Saliva DNA from Saliva . The Newest Tool in Cancer Research Has DNA Collection Gone to the Dogs Best Practices for Long-term Storage of Oragene•DNA Samples Browse by Tag animal

  • Eating mix of fruits, veggies may cut lung cancer risk

    Updated: 2010-08-31 17:53:43
    We've all heard the expression, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." And for years, we've known that at least in spirit, it's  somewhat true. Fruits and vegetables are full of vitamins and nutritionists say they contain ingredients that can fight off certain illnesses. Now a new study, published this week in Cancer Epidemiology, [...]

  • Walking May Help Prevent Breast, Bowel Cancer: Experts

    Updated: 2010-08-31 16:47:01
    Researchers say tens of thousands of women could avoid getting breast cancer each year if they got more gentle exercise in--particularly walking.

  • Vitamin D Affects Genes for Cancer, Autoimmune Diseases: Study

    Updated: 2010-08-30 21:40:02
    Scientists at Oxford University have discovered a link between vitamin D deficiency and genes related to both cancer and autoimmune diseases.

  • FDA Releases New List of Possible Drug Safety Concerns

    Updated: 2010-08-30 21:11:03
    Drugs on the list include the birth control pill Inplanon, the breast cancer drug Herceptin, and the heart drug Multaq.

  • Study: Esophageal Cancer Rate Doubles in UK

    Updated: 2010-08-30 14:35:00
    : Connect Search For Others Create Your Profile Participate Message Board Learn Cancer Atlas Cancer News Cancer Blog Cancer Information Weekly Cancer Newsletter Insurance Information Your Guide to Cancer Care Podcasts CF Thrive Magazine Recipes Empowering cancer patients to make informed . decisions Login or Join Now why join Aug 30 0 Study : Esophageal Cancer Rate Doubles in UK by : cancercompass According to a new study from Cancer Research UK , esophageal cancer rates have doubled in men over 25 years old in the last 25 years . Women's rates have increased only 8 percent during that same . period One basic issue is that men's diets are worse than women's . They tend to eat more fatty foods and less fruit and veg . Both of those things increase reflux disease , where acid comes up from

  • See, Breast Cancer Does Bear Gifts

    Updated: 2010-08-29 23:40:13
    Breast cancer gave me a gift today. It arrived in my mailbox, and I think it’s pretty cool. Yes, I’m silly like that, thinking gifts can flow from something very frightening and life-threatening. Some day, I’ll write all about the upside of cancer. For now, I just want to share my nifty keychain!

  • Breast Cancer Prevention Through Healthy Living

    Updated: 2010-08-29 14:10:02
    Thanks to Louise Baker for offering to write a guest post, and for doing such a good job of pulling together some of the best tips for preventing breast cancer through healthy living. Check out what she has to say, then get busy taking her advice! Pay mind to your diet More and more, oncologists are realizing [...]

  • Sheryl Crow Imaging Center Opens

    Updated: 2010-08-27 14:24:00
    Connect Search For Others Create Your Profile Participate Message Board Learn Cancer Atlas Cancer News Cancer Blog Cancer Information Weekly Cancer Newsletter Insurance Information Your Guide to Cancer Care Podcasts CF Thrive Magazine Recipes Empowering cancer patients to make informed . decisions Login or Join Now why join Aug 27 0 Sheryl Crow Imaging Center Opens by : cancercompass Singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow joined forces with the Pink Lotus Breast Cancer Center and to open the Sheryl Crow Imaging . Center Pink Lotus Breast Cancer Center was founded by Crow's breast cancer surgeon Dr . Kristi Funk . Crow underwent a lumpectomy and radiation therapy and has been cancer-free ever . since The Sheryl Crow Imaging Center is a state of the art digital screening and diagnostic imaging center

  • Adolescent Cancer, Marriage, and a Baby Made Three

    Updated: 2010-08-26 15:21:00
    , , Connect Search For Others Create Your Profile Participate Message Board Learn Cancer Atlas Cancer News Cancer Blog Cancer Information Weekly Cancer Newsletter Insurance Information Your Guide to Cancer Care Podcasts CF Thrive Magazine Recipes Empowering cancer patients to make informed . decisions Login or Join Now why join Aug 26 0 Adolescent Cancer , Marriage , and a Baby Made Three by : cancercompass A heart-warming article published Wednesday in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution highlights how cancer brought two young people together , which later led to marriage , and a baby born only three weeks . ago Kevin Skelly was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia at the young age of 4, and Kelly Skelly was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma during her first year of high . school The

  • Study: Breast Cancer Tests May Increase Cancer Risk

    Updated: 2010-08-26 13:29:00
    : Connect Search For Others Create Your Profile Participate Message Board Learn Cancer Atlas Cancer News Cancer Blog Cancer Information Weekly Cancer Newsletter Insurance Information Your Guide to Cancer Care Podcasts CF Thrive Magazine Recipes Empowering cancer patients to make informed . decisions Login or Join Now why join Aug 26 0 Study : Breast Cancer Tests May Increase Cancer Risk by : cancercompass According to a new study published in the monthly journal Radiology , breast-specific gamma imaging BSGI and positron emission mammography PEM two diagnostic tests used to find breast cancer , may increase one's risk of developing fatal . cancer A single breast-specific gamma imaging BSGI or positron emission mammography PEM examination carries a lifetime risk of inducing fatal cancer

  • Health Tip: Don’t Tan!

    Updated: 2010-08-25 15:39:47
    Thanks to Louise Baker for offering to write a guest post, and for doing such a good job of pulling together some of the best tips for preventing breast cancer through healthy living. Check out what she has to say, then get busy taking her advice! Pay mind to your diet More and more, oncologists are realizing [...]

  • 40-Year-Old Cancer Survivor Learns to Play Hockey

    Updated: 2010-08-24 15:18:00
    Connect Search For Others Create Your Profile Participate Message Board Learn Cancer Atlas Cancer News Cancer Blog Cancer Information Weekly Cancer Newsletter Insurance Information Your Guide to Cancer Care Podcasts CF Thrive Magazine Recipes Empowering cancer patients to make informed . decisions Login or Join Now why join Aug 24 0 40-Year-Old Cancer Survivor Learns to Play Hockey by : cancercompass As a teenager growing up in Erie , PA . Eric Naughton became a diehard Pittsburgh Penguins fan when his father installed an antenna originally intended to watch the Canadian broadcasts of the 1986 FIFA World Cup . Because they were Canadian broadcasts , Naughton was also able to watch Hockey Night in . Canada I always wanted to play as a kid and never could because it was too expensive and

  • Assess severity of prostate cancers

    Updated: 2010-08-24 14:28:57
    Rutgers scientists are in the process of developing methods that can accurately assess the severity of prostate cancer by analyzing magnetic resonance images and spectra of a patient's prostate gland. This may help physicians decide more confidently which patients need aggressive therapy and which are better served by "watchful waiting," and could even postpone or eliminate invasive biopsies in patients with low-grade tumors........

  • A Cluster Bomb for Cancer Care

    Updated: 2010-08-24 14:28:57
    Chemotherapy, while an effective cancer therapy, also brings debilitating side effects such as nausea, liver toxicity and a battered immune system. Now, a new way to deliver this life-saving treatment to cancer patients - getting straight to the source of the disease - has been invented by Dr. Dan Peer of Tel Aviv University's Department of Cell Research and Immunology and the Center for Nano Science and Nano Technology together with Prof. Rimona Margalit of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology........

  • JetBlue Airways’ eBay Fundraiser Benefits American Cancer Society

    Updated: 2010-08-23 14:40:00
    Connect Search For Others Create Your Profile Participate Message Board Learn Cancer Atlas Cancer News Cancer Blog Cancer Information Weekly Cancer Newsletter Insurance Information Your Guide to Cancer Care Podcasts CF Thrive Magazine Recipes Empowering cancer patients to make informed . decisions Login or Join Now why join Aug 23 0 JetBlue Airways’ eBay Fundraiser Benefits American Cancer Society by : cancercompass JetBlue Airways' All You Can Jet AYCJ pass program allows travelers to enjoy unlimited travel for 30 days for a one-time . fee The AYCJ packages include : AYCJ-7, which is 30 days of unlimited travel valued at 699 and AYCJ-5, which is 30 days of unlimited travel but excludes Fridays and Sundays valued at 499. Those two packages are now up for auction on eBay where the highest

  • Coping with Cancer Article Online

    Updated: 2010-08-23 01:29:52
    It’s now online — my Coping with Cancer magazine article. It was only in print form for a while, but now, you can actually click on a link and read it right on your computer. OK, here’s the link: http://copingmag.com/cwc/index.php/feature_article/blogging_cancer/ Click now.

  • Odds

    Updated: 2010-08-20 16:13:50
    This pretty much makes me want to cry.

  • HPV Vaccine Co-Founder Claims Boys Should Get Vaccinated

    Updated: 2010-08-20 14:57:00
    Connect Search For Others Create Your Profile Participate Message Board Learn Cancer Atlas Cancer News Cancer Blog Cancer Information Weekly Cancer Newsletter Insurance Information Your Guide to Cancer Care Podcasts CF Thrive Magazine Recipes Empowering cancer patients to make informed . decisions Login or Join Now why join Aug 20 1 HPV Vaccine Co-Founder Claims Boys Should Get Vaccinated by : cancercompass The HPV vaccine protects against the human papillomavirus , which causes cervical cancer . Cervical cancer is cancer of the cervix , and only females have cervixes . So why would HPV vaccine co-founder Dr . Doug Lowy suggest that boys get the vaccine , too In an NPR article published Friday , Lowy said that although boys don't get cervical cancer they can transmit it , and vaccinating

  • MUSC Receives Triple Gold Award from American Heart Association/American Stroke Association

    Updated: 2010-08-19 16:41:45
    The Medical University of South Carolina has been recognized for achievement in using evidence-based guidelines to provide the best possible care to patients through The American Heart Association/ American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines® program.  Get With The Guidelines is a hospital-based quality-improvement program designed to ensure that hospitals consistently care for cardiac and stroke [...]

  • Study: 1,800-year-old Chinese Brew Combats Intestinal Damage

    Updated: 2010-08-19 14:54:00
    : Connect Search For Others Create Your Profile Participate Message Board Learn Cancer Atlas Cancer News Cancer Blog Cancer Information Weekly Cancer Newsletter Insurance Information Your Guide to Cancer Care Podcasts CF Thrive Magazine Recipes Empowering cancer patients to make informed . decisions Login or Join Now why join Aug 19 0 Study : 1,800-year-old Chinese Brew Combats Intestinal Damage by : cancercompass According to a new study published in Science Translational Medicine , Huang Qin Tang , an 1,800-year-old four-herb Chinese medicinal formula , lowers gastrointestinal toxins caused by irinotecan a chemotherapy . drug Irinotecan reduces tumor growth by itself but if you combine with PHY906, it will further reduce tumor growth , Yung-Chi Cheng , lead author at the Yale University

  • Setting the federal research agenda on breast cancer and the environment

    Updated: 2010-08-18 00:33:38
    Cheers to our president and CEO, Jeanne Rizzo, R.N., who has been named to a new advisory committee that will create a federal research agenda on breast cancer and the environment.

  • Study: Most Countries Sympathetic Toward Lung Cancer Patients

    Updated: 2010-08-17 14:50:00
    : Connect Search For Others Create Your Profile Participate Message Board Learn Cancer Atlas Cancer News Cancer Blog Cancer Information Weekly Cancer Newsletter Insurance Information Your Guide to Cancer Care Podcasts CF Thrive Magazine Recipes Empowering cancer patients to make informed . decisions Login or Join Now why join Aug 17 0 Study : Most Countries Sympathetic Toward Lung Cancer Patients by : cancercompass A new multi-national study commissioned by The Global Lung Cancer Coalition to discover attitudes toward lung cancer found that most countries reject the idea that they are less sympathetic toward those with the . disease Research company Ipsos MORI conducted the survey in 16 countries , which included : Argentina , Australia , Brazil , Bulgaria , Canada , Great Britain , Italy

  • HRT Plus Low Body Weight May Increase Breast Cancer Risk

    Updated: 2010-08-16 15:54:05
    A new study may reignite the debate on the risks posed by hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on breast cancer.

  • Brides Against Breast Cancer Tour

    Updated: 2010-08-16 14:41:00
    Connect Search For Others Create Your Profile Participate Message Board Learn Cancer Atlas Cancer News Cancer Blog Cancer Information Weekly Cancer Newsletter Insurance Information Your Guide to Cancer Care Podcasts CF Thrive Magazine Recipes Empowering cancer patients to make informed . decisions Login or Join Now why join Aug 16 0 Brides Against Breast Cancer Tour by : cancercompass Brides Against Breast Cancer Nationwide Tour of Gowns kicked off last weekend in St . Louis , MO and has 16 more scheduled stops until April 2011. Brides Against Breast Cancer is an organization that helps brides-to-be purchase wedding dresses at discounted rates whilst raising funds to benefit Making Memories an organization that grants wishes for metastatic breast cancer . patients Wedding dresses are

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