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Childhood Cancer Survivors

Christina Bigelow knows she needs to keep her heart healthy she has survived cancer twice, Bigelow now works hard to or prevent a third round with the disease. MORE

Toronto Scuba Dive To Fight Childhood Cancer

Toronto Jan 1, 2007 It will be a (frozen) beehive of activity as at least 50 SCUBA divers face the elements to raise funds for Childhood Cancer research MORE

Prevent Cancer, Use Olive Oil

You can give your child added protection by adding olive oil to their diet. In a study to be published in the January 2007 issue of The FASEB Journal MORE

Funding For Cancer Research

Gov. Mike Huckabee on Thursday released $2 million in General Improvement Fund money to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences to help fund medical research projects, including a proposed cancer research center named in honor of the late Lt. Gov. Win Rockefeller. MORE

Gene finding may aid kids' leukemia fight

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- HOX genes, which guide an organism's master development plan, may be turned on and off in the embryo by a special type of RNA, say U.S. researchers. MORE

Cancer Patients Share Living Masterpieces Collection of Artworks Benefiting Cancer Research

Buffalo, NY (Vocus) December 26, 2006 -- A talented group of young cancer patients is using the power of art this holiday season to help other patients of every age and diagnosis, and research leading to future cancer cures. MORE

Mayo Clinic Help In Fight Against Leukemia

Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, working in collaboration with Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, presented evidence on Sunday that a novel regimen of three chemotherapy drugs, pentostatin, cyclophosphamide and rituximab, resulted in significant clinical response in patients with previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). MORE

Children With Leukemia Are Living Longer

More than 90 percent of children and young adults who survive five years or longer after diagnosis and treatment for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are alive 20 years later MORE

All Road Communications Wins Tattoo on Head of Driving For Donor's Pat Pedraja

San Diego, CA (PRWeb) December 8, 2006 -- San Diego based All Road Communications, America's leading Satellite Phone Rental & Sales company, is delighted to announce it is the winning bidder in the Driving For Donors, eBay auction. The auction, which closed on December 6th, was for the right to place a tattoo on the forehead of Leukemia patient Pat Pedraja, the brave 11 year old Florida native behind Driving for Donors. MORE

Standardized methods improve cancer diagnosis

A set of guidelines for pathologists that may greatly improve the diagnosis of malignant lymphomas are to be published online this week by Leukemia. MORE

 

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