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Happy or sad World Cancer Day?
Published 02/9/2007 in All Cancers , Blood Cancer , Bone Cancer , Brain Cancer , Breast Cancer , Esophageal Cancer , Eye Cancer , Kidney Cancer , Leukemia , Lung Cancer , Multiple Myeloma , Non Hodgkins Lymphoma , Oral Cancer , Ovarian Cancer , Pancreatic Cancer , Pet Cancers , Pregnancy and cancer , Prostate Cancer , Teen Cancers , Testicular Cancer , Throat Cancer , Thymic Cancer , Thyroid Cancer , Tissue Cancers , Tongue Cancer , Uterine Cancer , Young Adult Cancers , Liver Cancer , Cancer events , Pink products , Daily news , Opinion , Saturday Six , Sunday Seven , Head and Neck Cancer | Unrated
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I guess the concept is happy -- the public urging for our world's policy makers to make cancer a top priority -- but the fact that becomes all too apparent on this World Cancer Day is quite sobering. More than seven million people die from cancer and close to 11 million new cases are diagnosed worldwide each year. In 2006, cancer killed more people than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined.
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Scientist promises to get a treatment for children eye cancer
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have demonstrated a new locally applied treatment for the eye cancer retinoblastoma. The new treatment, tested on mice, reduced the size of the tumor and also did not cause the side effects common with chemotherapy.
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Searching for Shnnoogles
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Five years ago, when Michael Dunn's seven-year-old son Steven woke one morning with a swollen left eye, he took him to the emergency room thinking they would come home with eye drops for Steven. Instead, Steven became the 33rd known case of rhabdomyosarcoma, a cancer striking soft body tissue, that had no long-term survivors over the age of 20.
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Message in the Bottle: inspiration from a cancer patient
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The Northwest Arkansas Morning News is featuring a story about Nicole Young, and her new non-profit Message In A Bottle project, that is providing inspiration to cancer patients and their families with hand-written messages delivered in a bottle.
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