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Health & Wellness News tagged with cancer

In Amazon, a Frustrated Search for Cancer Cures
Health & Wellness  (tags: Cancer, Amazon, Brazil, clippers )

Nancy
- 2 days ago - reuters.com
The task of harvesting the secrets of Brazil's vast Amazon rain forest that could help in the battle against cancer largely falls to Osmar Barbosa Ferreira and a big pair of clippers.
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New Mammogram Advice Raises Questions, Concerns
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, cancer, breast cancer, mammograms, protection, prevention, disease, illness, death, safety, study, treatment, warning )

Dee
- 3 days ago - news.yahoo.com
NEW YORK - For many women, getting a mammogram is already one of life's more stressful experiences. Now, women in their 40s have the added anxiety of trying to figure out if they should even be getting one at all.
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How Up to 80,000 People Get Cancer Every Year Because They Drink Too Much, Eat Too Much, and Don't Exercise Enough
Health & Wellness  (tags: cancer, healthy lifestyle, Diet, Drinking, Exercise Habits )

Alisa
- 3 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Almost 80,000 patients diagnosed with cancer each year could have avoided the disease by adopting a healthier lifestyle, figures show.
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Cleaning for A Reason Foundation
Health & Wellness  (tags: cancer, women, help )

MADARTIST
- 5 days ago - cleaningforareason.org
Fighting cancer is difficult enough, but living with it is even tougher - and that's where the Cleaning for A Reason Foundation steps in. This newly formed nonprofit offers free professional housecleaning, and maid services.......
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Give Victims of Childhood Cancer and Leukemia Hope This Holiday Season - The Petition Site
Health & Wellness  (tags: cancer, Leukemia, disease, research, treatment, pediatric cancer, St. Jude, acute myeloid leukemia, children, protection, safety, health, healthcare )

Kelli
- 5 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
As the 2009 holiday season approaches, pledge to give the greatest gift of all - hope for children like Braden with cancer and other deadly diseases! Pledge to participate in the sixth annual Thanks and Giving® campaign and to share this pledge
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New Cancer Treatment Breakthrough Protect Healthy Cells From Radiotherapy
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, cancer, radiotherapy, illness, disease, research, science, news )

FatJ
- 7 days ago - todaymedic.com
Researchers are working on a new form of cancer treatment that will most likely become available within 5 years. The treatment works on healthy cells by modifying the function of gene to make the cells immune from huge dose of radiation .....
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Discovery In Worms Points To More Targeted Cancer Treatment
Health & Wellness  (tags: Worms, Cancer, Treatment )

Nancy
- 9 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Researchers at Queen's University have found a link between two genes involved in cancer formation in humans, by examining the genes in worms.
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Fundraiser Set for Friday in Inkom for 8-Month Old Battling Cancer
Health & Wellness  (tags: 8 month old baby, cancer, fundraiser, treatment )

Lone
- 16 days ago - localnews8.com
INKOM - Just last month, 8-month-old Skyelar Jo Edmonds was diagnosed with cancer in the lymph nodes commonly known as t-cell lymphoma. Skyelar has already had to undergo one surgery to remove the numerous tomors
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Outrunning Breast Cancer
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, cancer, breast cancer, disease, illness, prevention, protection, marathon, survivor )

Dee
- 19 days ago - capitalnews9.com
Training for any marathon takes some motivation. Training for one of the world's biggest, the New York City Marathon, takes a little extra. To help raise awareness and money for those dealing with the disease a local woman is once again lacing up..
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Camp Hope Gives Kids With Cancer a Chance Just to Be Kids
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, cancer, health, Good News, Body-Mind-Spirit, family, healthcare, environment, video )

Barbaroca
- 19 days ago - abc6.com
For seven worry-free, fun-filled, days kids with cancer can just be kids thanks to Camp Hope and all the wonderful counselors who work there. Please watch video and pass on to anyone who has a kid with cancer!
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Scientists Say Curry Compound Kills Cancer Cells
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, research, study, medicine, cancer, science )

Maria
- 19 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Researchers at the Cork Cancer Research Center in Ireland treated esophageal cancer cells with curcumin -- a chemical found in the spice turmeric, which gives curries a distinctive yellow color -- and found it started to kill cancer cells within 24 hours.
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Scientists Say Curry Compound Kills Cancer Cells
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, food, cancer, research, science )

Horselove
- 21 days ago - ca.news.yahoo.com
A molecule found in a curry ingredient can kill esophageal cancer cells in the laboratory, suggesting it might be developed as an anti-cancer treatment, scientists said on Wednesday.
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Take Action-American Cancer Society Cancer Network-Health Care Must Cost Less
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, cancer, disease, family, health, healthcare, humans, illness, medicine, protection, treatment, government )

Daphna
- 34 days ago - secure3.convio.net
This week the Senate Finance Committee passed a bill that capped health insurance premium at 13 percent of a person's annual income. It's a good step, but the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network believes that cap should be reduced to 10 percent
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Mother and Newborn Baby Both Die of the Same Cancer as Scientists Prove Tumours Can Be Caught in the Womb
Health & Wellness  (tags: Pregnant women, cancer, unborn baby, death )

Sophie
- 38 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Pregnant women can transmit cancer to their unborn babies, British scientists have proved for the first time. In an 'extremely rare' case that challenges conventional wisdom about human biology,
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month - Learn Your Risks, Responsibilities, and Ways to Raise Awareness
Health & Wellness  (tags: cancer, prevention, research, protection, study, humans, illness, healthcare, disease, investigation, science, society, treatment )

David
- 46 days ago - breastcancer.about.com
Anyone with breast tissue - men and women - is at risk for developing breast cancer. But only one percent of men and one in eight women will develop breast cancer. Knowing your risks - and what you can do to reduce your risks - is a great way to start.
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