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Swayze faces cancer (and a new TV series) bravely (AP via Yahoo! News)
Patrick Swayze says his yearlong battle with pancreatic cancer put him "through hell" while he pushed ahead on his new TV series. "I've never been one to run from a challenge," Swayze tells ABC's Barbara Walters in an exclusive interview...

Scientists find a gene that makes cancer spread (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
A single gene appears to play a crucial role in deadly breast cancers, increasing the chances the cancer will spread and making it resistant to chemotherapy, U.S. researchers said on Monday...

Cancer cells pull off 'Houdini' escape to evade chemotherapy
Scientists have revealed for the first time that cancer cells can reverse a process which irrevocably commits normal cells to die, in a study published in the British Journal of Cancer...

Garlic's Cancer Benefits Challenged
More research is needed before garlic can be touted as a way to lower the risk of some types of cancer, according to a new review of studies on the issue...

Cancer Research UK : NICE improves access to life-extending cancer .
Hilary Jackson, Cancer Research UK's policy manager, said: "This additional guidance from NICE is excellent news for cancer patients. Introducing flexibility into NICE's appraisal system should mean that more life-extending cancer drugs ...

Researchers Find Breast Cancer Gene, Spur Hope for New Drugs (Bloomberg)
Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Researchers discovered a gene involved in the spread of breast cancer, which may lead to new treatments for a disease that kills about 1 in 35 women...

Does Stress Cause Cancer? | Extra
Extra has the hottest celebrity and entertainment news, photos, gossip, scandals, videos, games, music, movies, television, star sightings and more!..

'Relocation' Plan Of Metastatic Cancer Cells Uncovered - Science Daily (press release)

BBC News

'Relocation' Plan Of Metastatic Cancer Cells Uncovered
Science Daily (press release) - Jan 5, 2009
Other Stanford researchers include former postdoctoral scholars Janine Erler, PhD, who is now a group leader at the Institute of Cancer Research at Chester .
Cancer cells 'cheat suicide call' BBC News
Tests helps tease out 'good' stem cells from cancer-causing ones . The Canadian Press
Tumour survival system identified The Press Association
ChronicleLive - InTheNews.co.uk
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Matric loses valiant battle: South Africa: News: News24
Swartruggens - A matric pupil from North West lost his year-long battle with cancer one day after receiving his results. Half an hour after Jaco Marais, 18, heard the news while lying in his hospital bed that he had passed, ...

Researchers Find Breast Cancer Gene, Spur Hope for New Drugs - Bloomberg

Fresh News

Researchers Find Breast Cancer Gene, Spur Hope for New Drugs
Bloomberg - 8 hours ago
Determining the genetic mechanism involved in the diseases spread, known as metastasis, may help answer one of the biggest mysteries in cancer research. .
Health Watch: Breast Cancer Research WCBS-TV New York
Study links breast cancer spread, gene Baltimore Sun
Breast Cancer Gene Linked To Disease Spread Discovered Science Daily (press release)
News-Medical.net - TheMedGuru
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Yow to miss rest of season amid cancer battle - College basketball .
'One of the hardest decisions I have had to make,' says Hall of Fame coach...

Medicare Proposes Easing Rules for Cancer PET Scans (Update1) (Bloomberg)
Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Medicare has proposed making it easier for cancer patients to get an advanced imaging test early to help guide their treatment, by lifting a data-gathering requirement...

RESEARCH ALERT-Oppenheimer upgrades Apple - Reuters

BBC News

RESEARCH ALERT-Oppenheimer upgrades Apple
Reuters - 13 hours ago
In 2004, Jobs, 53, said he had undergone successful surgery to remove a rare type of pancreatic cancer. Investors have been concerned about the cancer .
Video: Steve Jobs Weight Loss Due to Hormone Imbalance AssociatedPress

Steve Jobs: It's hormones, not cancer Seattle Post Intelligencer
Apple's Steve Jobs blames 'hormone imbalance' for weight loss Computerworld
MarketWatch - The Associated Press
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To the ends of Earth for cancer research - Toronto Sun

To the ends of Earth for cancer research
Toronto Sun, Canada - 19 hours ago
The 48-year-old London adventurer -- who was diagnosed with colorectal cancer two years ago -- planted a Maple Leaf and a flag for the Colorectal Cancer .

LegalTalkNetwork - Breast Cancer Litigation
In October of 2008, the husband of a woman named Genevieve Lupp was awarded over $1.2 million by a jury after a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania radiology group failed to timely diagnose and treat her for breast cancer, which ultimately ...

Breast Cancer 'Vaccine' Being Developed By Arkansas Scientists
Breast Cancer 'Vaccine' Being Developed By Arkansas Scientists - The Huffington Post...

Lung cancer gene suppressor identified (UPI)
CINCINNATI, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- University of Cincinnati researchers say they've identified a tumor suppressor that may lead to new treatments for lung cancer...