Recent Cancer Articles page 9

Times of India - WASHINGTON: Humour may be the best medicine to help children bear pain for longer periods, says a new study. The study, conducted by UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and Rx Laughter, found that watching comedy shows helped children ...

Patriot Ledger - Kimmell was diagnosed with cancer, the congregation rallied, cooking meals and running errands for him and taking care of church paper work. ‘‘My congregation was my pastor,’’ he told The Patriot Ledger that year. ‘‘I really felt held up ...

Detroit Free Press - Pearl Deaniello of Pittsburgh decided to celebrate her 15th year as a breast cancer survivor by coming back for the 30th Free Press Marathon. Deaniello last competed in 1981 as a race walker, finishing in 4:31:13. "I was living in Toledo, Ohio, back ...

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - (October 20, 2007) — This weekend should top Maria Nevarez's last trip to the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md. "They asked her to name the one thing in the world that she would really like to do," her mother, Kate Nevarez, says of the ...

News.com.au - THE deadly cancer threatening to drive Tasmanian Devils into extinction has entered one of the marsupial's last remaining disease-free frontiers. Experts also fear the disease will spread across the devil's entire habitat within five years and are ...

MSNBC - The first oncologist said Kotb needed chemotherapy. The second said chemo was unnecessary to treat her type of cancer; instead she could take a pill every day for the next five years. A third said she couldn’t go wrong with either treatment plan ...

News.com.au - A REVOLUTIONARY way of treating secondary liver cancer has been developed in Australia and doctors believe it could prolong the life of sufferers. In the largest study of its kind, doctors from 12 Australian hospitals now will investigate internal ...

Detroit News - NEW YORK -- A relatively new screening test was about twice as accurate as the traditional Pap smear at spotting cervical cancer, according to the first rigorous study of the test in North America. The new test could replace the 50-year-old Pap in a ...

Forbes - PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, poor, uninsured women in Pennsylvania will no longer have life-saving services because state funding for the Cervical Cancer Prevention Project has ended. "Poor women are going to get cancer and ...

BBC News - Earlier this year, a major scandal erupted in France when it was discovered that between 1989 and 2006, two radiotherapy units had accidentally given hundreds of cancer patients too high a dose of radiation. Five patients have since died and many ...