Toronto man offers "My Left Nut" as cancer potion Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Daniel Schneiderman, 29, originally chronicled his experience with the disease from diagnosis, to surgery (his left testicle was removed), to treatment in candid and humorous e-mails sent to friends and family in late 2005. Urged by the several friends and his mother, he has now turned the material into a show.
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Breast Cancer - Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Posted: 3 years ago by robfouryqr
Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed among Canadian women. Despite slight declines in mortality rates over the past decade for women with breast cancer, one in nine Canadian women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime; one in 25 Canadian women will die from this disease.
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Obesity Nears Smoking As Cause Of Cancer Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
James says that, as obesity rates soar, the list of cancers associated with those extra pounds is growing: "Breast cancer, particularly post-menopausal breast cancer, cancer of the large bowel, and cancer of the pancreas, those are the three big ones.
In other news: Hot Dogs, beer and nachos banned from sporting events. (Well, you can't smoke there either).
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Mom Charged With Denying Son Cancer Meds Posted: 1 year ago by princess2408
A mother stopped giving her 8-year old son his at-home chemo treatments. He was diagnosed in 2006 and after treatment went into remission, however his cancer has since returned and his doctors are saying that it wouldn't have happened had he been receiving his medications.
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Christina Applegate has breast cancer Posted: 1 year ago by ImNotBlue
Actress played ditzy teenager Kelly Bundy on Fox's 'Married...with Children'
"Christina Applegate was diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer. Benefiting from early detection through a doctor ordered MRI, the cancer is not life threatening. Christina is following the recommended treatment of her doctors and will have a full recovery."
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Cancer To Be World's Top Killer By 2010, WHO Says Posted: 12 months ago by cactushair
Cancer will overtake heart disease as the world's top killer by 2010, part of a trend that should more than double global cancer cases and deaths by 2030, international health experts said in a report released Tuesday.
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10-Year-Old Girl Battles Rare Breast Cancer Posted: 6 months ago by AutumnLotus
For many of the estimated 180,000 women whose doctors will tell them they have breast cancer this year, the diagnosis will no doubt come as a shock. But for the parents of 10-year-old Hannah Powell-Auslam of Fullerton, Calif., who learned in early April that their daughter had breast cancer, the news was particularly hard to swallow.
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State denies cancer treatment, offers suicide instead Posted: 1 year ago by 2manyusernames
Barbara Wagner, a lung cancer patient was prescribed chemotherapy. Instead of paying for the treatment, Oregon instead asked if she wouldn't rather have a peaceful death instead. After the health plan refused to pay for the medicine the drug manufacturer offered to pay for 1 year of the $4k/month treatment.
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Boy has shoulder made from elbow Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A teenage cancer patient has undergone successful surgery to rebuild his shoulder using his elbow.
Tom Lemm, 15, from Pontefract, had his left arm amputated by surgeons at Leeds General Hospital because of a tumour at the top of the limb.
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First Lady has skin cancer removed. Posted: 3 years ago by tomphoolry
Laura Bush has malignant tumor removed in November.
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Farrah Fawcett's cancer can no longer be treated, says tearful Ryan O'Neal Posted: 7 months ago by muppet
Ryan O'Neal has spoken of his heartbreak at partner Farrah Fawcett's terminal cancer diagnosis, saying she is bed-ridden and can no longer be treated.
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Timely Cancer Diagnosis Linked to Insurance Status Posted: 2 years ago by mahler87
People who either have no health insurance or rely on Medicaid are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced cancers than people who have private health insurance, researchers from the American Cancer Society report.
We need a "No s**t?" category.
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Toenail fungus medicine may treat cancer Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
U.S. researchers say itraconazole, a drug commonly used to treat toenail fungus, can also block the growth of new blood vessels in cancer.
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"Doctors Missed My Ovarian Cancer 20 Times" Posted: 9 months ago by 2manyusernames
Sue Edwards went to her doctor over 20 times complaining of symptoms. Each time she'd be told it was caused by a sinus bug and/or her weight. Instead she had ovarian cancer. The problem isn't that the doctors are incompetent but that even today this cancer is often misdiagnosed although usually because the physician it to busy or can't justify the expenditure to pay for a quick blood test or pelvic examination that could save a woman's life.
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'Personalised' cancer drug test Posted: 3 years ago by robfouryqr
A gene test that predicts which cancer drugs will be most effective for different people is to be trialled in the US.
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Study reveals 2/3 of prostate cancer patients do not need treatment Posted: 2 months ago by bernardblack
In the largest study of its kind, more than 4000 prostate cancer patients were tracked. Findings from the study show that aggressive cancer requiring surgery has a certain protein indicator. More than 60% of the patients lacked the indicator and could be treated with careful monitoring.
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Scientists kill cancer cells with "trojan horse" Posted: 5 months ago by kakana
Australian scientists have developed a "trojan horse" therapy to combat cancer, using a bacterially-derived nano cell to penetrate and disarm the cancer cell before a second nano cell kills it with chemotherapy drugs.
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Abortion pill could fight cancer Posted: 3 years ago by 2manyusernames
A chemical used to abort pregnancy could fight breast and ovarian cancer, say scientists.
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Test of Lincoln DNA sought to prove cancer theory Posted: 8 months ago by muppet
John Sotos has a theory about why Abraham Lincoln was so tall, why he appeared to have lumps on his lips and even why he had gastrointestinal problems. The 16th president, he contends, had a rare genetic disorder - one that would likely have left him dead of cancer within a year had he not been assassinated.
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First genes spotted for testicular cancer Posted: 6 months ago by AutumnLotus
Scientists in Britain say they have found the first genes that are associated with testicular cancer, the commonest form of cancer for men between the ages of 15 and 45.
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Give cancer vaccine to poor too: Fraser Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
The man who helped develop a vaccine for cervical cancer is urging drug companies to keep their word and ensure women in the Third World can get the drug at a fair price.
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