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New Study Finds Weight-lifting Eases Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema – Yahoo! News

By
Rebecca
V. Snowden

A slowly progressive
weight-lifting program may help some breast
cancer
survivors ease the symptoms of lymphedema,
according to a new study from the University of Pennsylvania.

to the more than 2.5 million breast cancer survivors Read the full story

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Study: Common hormone treatment for prostate cancer could spark heart problems – Yahoo! Canada News

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By Maria Cheng, The Associated Press

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LONDON – A common treatment for prostate cancer may slightly increase patients’ risk of heart problems, new research says. Read the full story

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Older Prostate-Cancer Patients: 'Watchful Waiting' Good – Yahoo! News

In the largest analysis of its kind, new research pinpoints how long older men who are diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer can expect to live if they opt for a conservative, “watchful waiting” approach to their cancer treatment – as opposed to seeking immediate, aggressive therapies such as surgery Read the full story

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How about these right… I think you’ll find the following nuggets of wisdom particularly insightful. Leave your comments below. Check out the second one in particular…

Why Are You So Radiosensitive?

The patients' records were gathered from the Europe-wide GENEPI database, one of the world's largest storehouses of radiation cancer treatment data. …  Read More…

Brazil ruling party candidate free of cancer-doctors Read the full story

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Diabetes drug kept breast tumors away in mice – Yahoo! News

CHICAGO (Reuters) –
Adding the common diabetes drug metformin to chemotherapy helped shrink breast cancer tumors faster in mice and keep them away longer than chemotherapy alone, raising hope for a more effective way to treat cancer, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

They said metformin appeared to target Read the full story

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If you’ve been keeping up with my blog posts lately you’ll know I’ve come to adding a few news posts from around the web on this subject. I’ve got a couple more today that are new and updated, so let me know what you think of em…

Toad Venom In Cancer Treatment: Traditional Chinese Medicine Is …

The results from the Phase I clinical study, a collaborative research project between MD Anderson and Fudan Read the full story

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How about these right… I think you’ll find the following nuggets of wisdom particularly insightful. Leave your comments below. Check out the second one in particular…

Pink Fund event mixes fashion, health information

The Pink Fund was founded by Molly macdonald, a working mother of five who underwent cancer treatment. “Women with breast cancer have enough on their minds, …  Read More… Read the full story

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Head, Neck Cancer Treatment Often Not Completed – Yahoo! News

MONDAY, Sept. 21 (HealthDay News) — Incomplete and interrupted
radiation treatment is a common problem among Medicare patients with head
and neck cancer, a new study has found.

Researchers analyzed data from 5,086 Medicare patients diagnosed with
head and neck cancer between 1997 and 2003 and found that nearly 40
percent of them experienced interruptions in radiation therapy or failed
to complete the course of therapy.

Read the full story

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Ok so you might find the next few links interesting. These are from around the web, just random snippets that I’ve picked up in my reading, but I found some very cool information in them. You might too. Here goes…

Cupcakes help pay for cancer treatment

"Cookies for kids with cancer," she writes in crooked letters. "Anything helps." Morgan lives in the country, in a little house Read the full story

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Hey Readers! I’ve been comin across some crazy stuff the past few days from a few different blogs around the web which I just had to share with you. Check em out below…

Options exist in prostate treatment

"You are applying the same treatment, you are just doing it differently for a variety of reasons — usually improved quality of life." Prostate Cancer …  Read More…

Fake doc charged after claiming cure to cancer Read the full story

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If you’ve been keeping up with my blog posts lately you’ll know I’ve come to adding a few news posts from around the web on this subject. I’ve got a couple more today that are new and updated, so let me know what you think of em…

Cookbook for cancer treatment

Side effects of cancer treatment such as nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting make it hard to stay nourished. But eating nutritious foods while fighting Read the full story

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Bayer, Onyx pill beats hopes in breast cancer test – Yahoo! News

BERLIN (Reuters) –
Women with breast cancer lived significantly longer without their disease getting worse when treated with Bayer and Onyx Pharmaceuticals' cancer pill Nexavar, researchers said on Wednesday.

Nexavar, a targeted anti-cancer drug sold as a liver and kidney cancer therapy in more Read the full story

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New Hope for Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer – Yahoo! News

FRIDAY, Sept. 25 (HealthDay News) — Inhibiting the action of an enzyme
called TAK-1 reverses pancreatic cancer resistance to chemotherapy, a
finding that could lead to the development of a new way to treat the
disease, researchers say.

Pancreatic cancer is resistant to every currently available anti-cancer Read the full story

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Prostate cancer treatment may spark heart problems – Yahoo! News

LONDON – A common treatment for prostate cancer may slightly increase patients’ risk of heart problems, new research says.

Experts said the findings could make doctors think twice before prescribing the standard hormone treatment to men with prostate cancer, particularly if they are at risk of heart Read the full story

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I hope you’ve been enjoying my posts lately. I thought I might do something different today and rustle up a few bits of info from around the WWW. These are some of the news items and blog posts that have been popular over the last few weeks. Leave me your thoughts.

Diabetes Drug Metformin Shows Promise as a Breast Cancer Treatment

Low doses of the commonly used diabetes drug metformin may be an effective Read the full story

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If you’ve been keeping up with my blog posts lately you’ll know I’ve come to adding a few news posts from around the web on this subject. I’ve got a couple more today that are new and updated, so let me know what you think of em…

Avastin Study Patients Develop Congestive Heart Failure …

Last year, the FDA also approved Avastin as a metastatic breast cancer treatment, and this past May, it was approved Read the full story

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I hope you’ve been enjoying my posts lately. I thought I might do something different today and rustle up a few bits of info from around the WWW. These are some of the news items and blog posts that have been popular over the last few weeks. Leave me your thoughts.

Heat helps in cancer treatment, BSD shares soar

BERLIN, Sept 22 (Reuters) – Cancer patients whose tumours are targeted with heat treatment Read the full story

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