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Research: Oral Sex Puts Men at Risk for Oral Cancer

By Mara GayApr 19th 2011 – 12:50PM
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Rates of oral cancer are on the rise among men, and researchers say the culprit isn't the devil you might think. The rising rates of oral cancer aren't being caused by tobacco, experts say, but by HPV, the same sexually transmitted virus responsible for the vast majority of cases of cervical cancer in women. Millions of...

Mass. Mom Who Withheld Son's Meds Gets 8-10 Years

Apr 15th 2011 – 10:39AM
Cheryl Senter, AP

Cheryl Senter, AP

LAWRENCE, Mass. -- A Massachusetts woman convicted of attempted murder for withholding cancer medications from her autistic son was been sentenced to eight to 10 years in prison. Kristen LaBrie wept and expressed remorse before a judge announced her punishment Friday in Lawrence Superior Court. She said she misses her son...

Mom Convicted for Withholding Son's Cancer Meds [VIDEO]

Apr 14th 2011 – 12:15PM
Cheryl Senter, AP

Cheryl Senter, AP

End to Japan Nuclear Crisis Is Years, a Fortune Away

Apr 9th 2011 – 9:35PM
Japan Defense Ministry / AP

Japan Defense Ministry / AP

TOKYO -- Once Japan's leaky nuclear complex stops spewing radiation and its reactors cool down, making the site safe and removing the ruined equipment is going to be a messy ordeal that could take decades and cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Radiation has covered the area around the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant and...

Michigan Man Killed in Car Crash the Day After His Wife Died of Cancer

By Mara GayApr 9th 2011 – 6:36AM
Courtesy Kellie Ittner

Courtesy Kellie Ittner

The day after his wife died, Steven Tice knew he couldn't be alone in the house they had shared. So the Michigan man got in his pickup truck and headed to his daughter's house not far away. But he never made it. Tice, 64, died after crashing his pickup truck Sunday, only a day after Lana, his wife of nearly four decades,...

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Va. Woman Fired Twice In Battle To Beat Breast Cancer

May 23rd 2012 - 12:23PM

Connie Robinson has beaten breast cancer but these days feels like a loser after time off from work to treat the disease led to her being fired -- twice.

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Brittany McCoskey, Rose Cancer Center Manager, Pleads Guilty In Health Care Fraud Case

May 22nd 2012 - 05:00PM

An ex-office manager has pleaded guilty in what prosecutors say was a multimillion dollar health care fraud in which a cancer clinic gave patients diluted chemotherapy drugs and used old syringes on multiple people.

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Sara Calabro: The Real Reason Downward-Facing Dog Is So Good for You

By Sara Calabro May 22nd 2012 - 08:24AM

Downward-facing dog is the most ubiquitous pose in yoga.

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Fighting My Mother's Cancer With Text Messages

May 21st 2012 - 08:54AM

I had been successful in my avoidance of any deep empathetic feelings towards another person for nearly 30 years.

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Sierra Alef-Defoe: Cancer Research Should Be a National Priority

May 18th 2012 - 08:50AM

If a terrorist targeted almost two million Americans per year and killed over half a million of them, the U.S. would almost certainly declare war.

Cancer News From the Web

  • 05/27/12 Time to Ovarian Cancer Return Not Tied to BMI Source: Revolution Health Among women with primary epithelial ovarian cancer, the time to recurrence was no different between obese and non-obese patients, a retrospective study showed.
  • 05/27/12 Why this image of a model who isn't ill is a slap in... Source: Daily Mail - London - UK It is a photograph of a woman naked from the waist up, completely bald.
  • 05/27/12 Anti-psychotic drug kills cancer stem cells without... Source: New Kerala Dot Com A team of Canadian scientists have discovered that thioridazine, a drug used to treat psychotic disorder, could successfully kill cancer stem cells in humans without the toxic side-effects on normal cells.
  • 05/27/12 Cancer therapy 'hard' for mother Source: BBC Nottingham The mother of a Nottinghamshire baby who has a rare form of cancer says it is hard to see her son go through chemotherapy.
  • 05/27/12 Battling a disease Source: New York Daily News - New York NY She went from rapper to actress to filmmaker — enjoying the world of celebrity until stomach cancer forced Angelica (Nefertiti) Strong to face death at the age of 38.

Background on Cancer

Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a broad group of various diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth.

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