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Lola
Offbeat  (tags: golden labrador, love, bonding, remembering, perceptions, cancer )

Simone
- 5 days ago - all-creatures.org
Just want to share this with you. Some of you may remember Lola, my blonde lab. A few years back she had cancer and at the time I was really strapped for money. One of our list members sent me the money to get her operation. They told me to stop thanking
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Man-Eater Tiger Diagnosed With Cancer
Offbeat  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, tigers, Cancer, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 9 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
The two and a half years old male tiger, Kishen, has been diagnosed with `haemangio sarcoma' -- a cancer of blood vessels. "This cancer has a tendency to spread towards lungs," said Renu Singh, zoo director. The stage of the malignancy is not yet known
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Priest May Be Sainted After Woman Survives Cancer
Offbeat  (tags: cancer, health, society, religion, Body-Mind-Spirit, illness, unusual, culture, goodnews )

Suzybell
- 147 days ago - kdka.com
A woman with cancer throughout her body was told she had just six months to live, but after intense prayer, the cancer was suddenly gone. Now, the priest to whom she prayed is being considered for sainthood, CBS station WJZ-TV reported.
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Wildlife Faces Cancer Threat
Offbeat  (tags: animals, food, health, cancer, tumor, wildlife, science )

Cowboss
- 155 days ago - sciencedaily.com
While cancer touches the lives of many humans, it is also a major threat to wild animal populations as well, according to a recent study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).
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Sign Up: USDA June 29th Deadline to Halt GE, Drug and Industrial Chemicals in Food Crops
Offbeat  (tags: GMOs, GE food, GE crops, Obama, USDA, pollution, politics, science, environment, Sustainabililty, organic, eco-friendly, healthy, food, family, protection, interesting, society, abuse, nutrition, prevention, risks, cancer, NewTechnology, medicine )

Abc
- 170 days ago - examiner.com
Many social welfare, health and environmental organizations are asking Americans to sign up before June 29 to halt the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) proposed rule which will significantly weaken the regulation of Genetically Engineered
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ITN - Tributes Paid to Paul Newman
Offbeat  (tags: Hollywood, Mourning, Paul Newman, Cancer, Dies Age 83 )

Tj
- 425 days ago - itn.co.uk
Newman - whose brilliant blue eyes, good looks and talent made him one of Tinseltown's top actors over six decades - died on Friday at his farmhouse near Westport, Connecticut, surrounded by his family and close friends.
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Farewell to a Faithful Guide Dog
Offbeat  (tags: guide dog, best friend, Hannie, blindness, cancer )

Kathy
- 466 days ago - stuff.co.nz
She would walk her young master to school each morning, wait in a basket in a classroom before guiding him back home in the afternoon. She was as well known for her friendly, eager-to-please nature, as much as her master's matter-of-fact outlook -
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5th Grader Raising Money For Cancer Is Diagnosed With Disease (Video)
Offbeat  (tags: raising money for St. Jude's, cancer, remission, special child )

Kathy
- 542 days ago - wkyt.com
An award ceremony at Prichard Elementary in Grayson Kentucky was recently held for Tyler Bush, a fifth grader who for the third straight year broke a fund raising record by collecting over two thousand dollars.
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Disfigured Woman Dies After Death Ruling This Is So Sad
Offbeat  (tags: tumors, esthesioneuroblastoma, cancer )

Sc
- 615 days ago - wsmv.com
PARIS -- A woman who suffered from painful facial tumors and had drawn headlines across France with her quest for doctor-assisted suicide was found dead Wednesday, an official said. Chantal Sebire, a former schoolteacher and mother of three, was found
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Israel Grounds Some F-16 Fighters Over Cancer Fears
Offbeat  (tags: interesting, safety, medical, cancer )

Marty
- 615 days ago - newsdaily.com
The Israeli air force said on Friday it was suspending training flights using U.S.-made F-16I fighter jets after finding a suspected cancer-causing substance in the cockpit
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A Daring Treatment, a Little Girl's Survival
Offbeat  (tags: brain tumor, cancer )

Sc
- 618 days ago - nytimes.com
In the pages of a medical journal, Melanie Joy McDaniel is a study subject, listed by her patient number and tumor type. In real life she's a little girl whose story is a reminder that medical research can change lives and that the pioneers include patien
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Insurance Company Ordered to Pay $9 Million for Cancelling Patient's Policy
Offbeat  (tags: insurance, insurance company, cancellation, cancer, lawsuit )

Sc
- 624 days ago - naturalnews.com:80
A precedent-setting ruling was handed down recently in which a large California insurance company was ordered to pay more than $9 million to a breast cancer patient it dropped during chemotherapy treatment. California's Health Net has since stopped its
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Cigarette Toxins Disable Gene Which Slows Aging
Offbeat  (tags: destruction, environment, pollution, research, suffering, propaganda, death, business, corporate, consumers, marketing, safety, rights, cancer, diet, disease, drugs, ethics, health, illness, medicine, prevention, warning )

Susan
- 667 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Toxins in cigarette smoke wipe out a gene that plays a vital role in protecting the body from the effects of premature aging. Rahman has spent years studying how the 4,700 toxic chemical compounds in cigarettes assault lung tissue.
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Lincoln May Be First Recorded Case of Rare Disease
Offbeat  (tags: Lincoln, U.S., president, genetic disease, MEN2, behavior, cancer )

Eduardo
- 731 days ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
A physician Sotos believes Lincoln had a genetic syndrome called MEN 2B. He thinks the diagnosis not only accounts for Lincoln's great height but also many of the president's other reported ailments and and behaviors.
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Treating Cancer Without Chemo
Offbeat  (tags: cancer, therapy, radiowaves, tumors )

Eduardo
- 752 days ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
Doctors told John Kanzius he had nine months to live. Kanzius did not have a medical background, but he knew radios. If he could transmit them into cancer cells, could he then direct the radio waves to destroy tumors, while leaving healthy cells intact?
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