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APNewsBreak: Komen official quits breast cancer charity over Planned Parenthood dispute

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Associated Press - Feb. 07 (News Report) - A high-ranking official resigned Tuesday from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity after a dispute over whether the group should give funding to Planned Parenthood, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press. Karen Handel, the charity’s vice president for public policy, told Komen officials that she supported the move to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood. She said the discussion started before she arrived at the organization and was approved at the highest levels of the charity.

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'Fatty apron' fuels ovary cancer

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Oct. 30 (News) - In 80% of cases, it has spread to this apron, called the omentum, by the time it is diagnosed. The Nature Medicine research found once ovarian cancer cells reach the omentum, they take it over. UK experts said the study was important in aiding understanding of ovarian cancer, the fifth most common cancer in women in the UK. The omentum lies in the upper abdomen near the stomach. It helps support the organs nearby, but it is not essential.

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Pediatricians Fact-Check Bachmann's Bashing of HPV Vaccine

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By Scott Hensley - Sep. 13 (Fact Check) - The American Academy of Pediatrics said there is no validity to statements that a vaccine against cervical cancer is dangerous and can lead to mental retardation. Now the nation's pediatricians have waded deep and early into the race for the presidency. In an unusual instance of political fact-checking of a candidate's statements by physicians themselves, the American Academy of Pediatrics has a tough prescription for Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann: Get your facts straight on the HPV vaccine. In case you missed it, she sparred with Texas Gov. Rick Perry Monday night over his executive order that would have mandated vaccination of state schoolgirls against human papillomavirus, a cause of cervical cancer.

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FDA panel against use of Avastin for breast cancer

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

San Francisco Chronicle - By Catherine Larkin - Jun. 02 (News Report) - A panel of cancer experts ruled Wednesday that Avastin - the world's best-selling cancer drug, developed by Genentech in South San Francisco - should no longer be used in breast cancer patients because of concerns the medicine didn't work as well in follow-up studies and may cause deadly bleeding. Outside advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted 6-0 against Avastin's use in breast cancer at a first-of-its-kind hearing in Silver Spring, Md. Their recommendations will be sent to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, who will make the final ruling on an unspecified date. Avastin will remain on the market because it's approved for four other types of tumors.

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Should You Be Snuggling With Your Cellphone?

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Randall Stross - Nov. 14 (News Analysis) - Holding a cellphone against your ear may be hazardous to your health. So may stuffing it in a pocket against your body.

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Cancer bracelets' 'boobies' tough call for schools

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Bob Moen - Oct. 15 (News) - A $4 rubber bracelet meant to raise breast cancer awareness has done that and more: Students nationwide are wearing the "I (heart) boobies" wristbands, and running afoul of school administrators.

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Diesel Dangers: Mining Companies Get First Look at Government Cancer Study

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Politics Daily - By Jim Morris, Chris Hamby - Sep. 27 (News Report) - A long-delayed government epidemiological study of possible ties between diesel exhaust and lung cancer in miners may finally be published this fall -- but only after a mining industry group, represented by the Washington lobbying powerhouse Patton Boggs, finishes a pre-publication review of the study's drafts.

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Mammograms' Usefulness Limited, Study Indicates

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CBS News - By Cbs/Ap - Sep. 23 (News) - Mammograms don't help women over 50 as much as has been believed, new research suggests.

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Schools ban bracelets promoting cancer awareness

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

USA Today - By Jeff Martin, - Aug. 31 (News) - Cancer has ravaged several of Ann Aberson's relatives, so she doesn't have a problem with her two teenage daughters wearing bracelets to raise awareness of breast cancer. But their school principal does. This week, Baltic High School, just north of here, became one of the latest across the USA to ban the rubber bracelet, which has a message some say is in poor taste: "I love boobies." The bracelets have caused controversy in schools in states including California, Colorado, Idaho, Florida and Wisconsin. Some districts allow students to wear them inside-out, and others ban them.

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Turning Cancer, Other Diseases, Into Causes

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By Alan Greenblatt - Aug. 24 (Special Report) - Today, it's expected that people suffering from a disease will make that fact known. Breast cancer, in particular, seems to be thoroughly destigmatized. Patients and loved ones wear pink ribbons, blog about their experiences and participate in races and walks to raise money for research. Not every disease has become a cause. But it has become common for people to promote awareness of their illnesses and conditions by sporting bumper stickers and wearing T-shirts, wristbands and tattoos, whether they're concerned with Alzheimer's, autism, pregnancy loss or other subjects. These various emblems are only the most visible symbols of a whole culture of patient information that today gets shared through websites and support groups. "It's a way of making it visible," says Susan E. Bell, a medical sociologist at Bowdoin College, "giving people some way of trying to destigmatize their conditions and to signal and make connections with people who might have or know someone with similar conditions."

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Most cans of food contain controversial BPA

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - By Ernest Scheyder - Jun. 09 (Investigative Report) - The plastic chemical BPA, or bisphenol A, caused an uproar when health concerns were raised about its use in baby bottles. But what many don't know is that it's used routinely in nearly everything you eat that comes out of a can.

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How do we know what chemicals are safe?

Mon, 24 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New Yorker - By Jerome Groopman - May. 24 (Special Report) - There is an inherent uncertainty in determining which substances are safe and which are not, and when their risks outweigh their benefits. Toxicity studies are difficult, because BPA and other, similar chemicals can have multiple effects on the body. Moreover, we are exposed to scores of them in a lifetime, and their effects in combination or in sequence might be very different from what they would be in isolation.

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How Many Cancers Are Caused by the Environment?

Sun, 23 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Scientific American - By Brett Israel - May. 23 (Special Report) - Traces of chemicals known to cause human cancer lurk everywhere. But after decades of research, figuring out how many people might contract cancer because of them remains an elusive goal.

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Wash. to Wellpoint: Stop dropping breast cancer patients

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:03:02 -0700

Reuters - Apr. 23 (News Report) - Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has called on health insurer WellPoint to stop dropping coverage for patients recently diagnosed with breast cancer, calling the practice "deplorable."

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WellPoint routinely targets breast cancer patients

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Murray Waas - Apr. 22 (Investigative Report) - That tens of thousands of Americans lost their health insurance shortly after being diagnosed with life-threatening, expensive medical conditions has been well documented by law enforcement agencies, state regulators and a congressional committee. Insurance companies have used the practice, known as "rescission," for years. And a congressional committee last year said WellPoint was one of the worst offenders.

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Prostate cancer prevention clue

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Mar. 31 (News) - BBC NewsProstate drug dutasteride 'may cut cancer risk'BBC NewsA drug already used in men with enlarged prostates seems to cut the risk of prostate cancer developing, a large international study has shown. A four-year trial in more than 6500 men found those who took dutasteride had a 23% lower risk of prostate ...Study finds possible heart risk with prostate drugThe Associated PressDutasteride Results Reignite Debate About Prevention of Prostate CancerMedscapeStudy Revives Debate on Prostate DrugBusinessWeekAFP?-KMOV.com?-Reutersall 187 news articles??

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Radiation Offers New Cures, and Ways to Do Harm

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Walt Bogdanich - Jan. 23 (Investigative Report) - While new technology saves the lives of countless cancer patients, errors can lead to unspeakable pain and death. As Scott Jerome-Parks lay dying, he clung to this wish: that his fatal radiation overdose — which left him deaf, struggling to see, unable to swallow, burned, with his teeth falling out, with ulcers in his mouth and throat, nauseated, in severe pain and finally unable to breathe — be studied and talked about publicly so that others might not have to live his nightmare.

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15 cigarettes: all it takes to harm genes

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Steve Connor - Dec. 17 (Special Report) - One genetic mutation occurs on average for every 15 cigarettes that a typical lung-cancer patient smokes, according to a study that has identified for the first time all of the mutations acquired during the lifetime of a cancer patient. Scientists have completed a full genetic analysis of the genomes of cancer patients, and hope the information will lead to a fundamental understanding of the causes of cancer – and possibly drugs and treatments – by identifying the mutations that turn a healthy cell into a cancerous tumour cell.

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Scientists crack 'entire genetic code' of cancer

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - By Michelle Roberts - Dec. 16 (News Report) - Scientists have unlocked the entire genetic code of two of the most common cancers - skin and lung - a move they say could revolutionise cancer care. Not only will the cancer maps pave the way for blood tests to spot tumours far earlier, they will also yield new drug targets, says the Wellcome Trust team. Scientists around the globe are now working to catalogue all the genes that go wrong in many types of human cancer. The UK is looking at breast cancer, Japan at liver and India at mouth. China is studying stomach cancer, and the US is looking at cancers of the brain, ovary and pancreas.

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Iraq sees alarming rise in cancers, deformed babies

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - By Suadad al-Salhy - Dec. 01 (News Report) - The guns are gradually falling silent in Iraq as a fragile stability takes hold, turning the spotlight on a stealthier killer likely to stalk Iraqis for years to come. Incidences of cancer, deformed babies and other health problems have risen sharply, Iraqi officials say, and many suspect contamination from weapons used in years of war and accompanying unchecked pollution as a cause.

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Incinerator protests fire debate over China's growing garbage problem

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Xinhua - By Wang Pan, Li Jianmin - Nov. 26 (News Report) - When hundreds of people in a south China city took to the streets earlier this week to protest a planned garbage incinerator project, they highlighted a growing problem for China's booming cities. The protestors in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province, were demanding the local government scrap the incinerator plant, which, they claimed, would release carcinogens into the air. But for city administrators it meant finding other alternativesto overflowing landfills.

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Judge OKs Challenge to Human Gene Patents

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - Nov. 03 (News Report) - A federal judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit can move forward against the Patent and Trademark Office and a research company awarded exclusive rights to human genes known to detect early signs of breast or ovarian cancer. The first-of-its-kind lawsuit

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Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost to Health

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Charles Duhigg - Sep. 13 (Special Report) - In the past five years, companies and workplaces have violated pollution laws more than 500,000 times. But the vast majority of polluters have escaped punishment.

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AFP: Study finds pesticide link to childhood leukemia

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Agence France-Presse - Jul. 30 (News Report) - Patients with childhood leukemia have elevated levels of household pesticides in their urine, according to a new study by the Georgetown University Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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Economic Scene - Health Reform’s Acid Test - Prostate Cancer - NYTimes.com

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David Leonhardt - Jul. 08 (News Report) - It’s become popular to pick your own personal litmus test for health care reform. A proton therapy center under construction outside Chicago. The treatment’s proton accelerator can be as big as a football field. For some liberals, reform will be a success only if it includes a new government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers. For many conservatives, a bill must exclude such a public plan. For others, the crucial issue is how much money Congress spends covering the uninsured. My litmus test is different. It’s the prostate cancer test.

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