USJ student fights cancer at Relay for Life – Jackson Sun
Armstrong urges Congress to renew war on cancer – San Francisco Gate
Seven-time Tour de France winner and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong is calling on Congress to renew the nation’s war on cancer. “It’s time for our country to refocus and relaunch a comprehensive war on this disease,” Armstrong said Thursday. America
Source: www.sfgate.com
Preston to Blackpool bike ride planned for Rosemere Cancer Foundation – This is Preston
A mini-peloton of primary schoolchildren will lead the way in a charity cycle ride tomorrow from a village near Preston to Blackpool in aid of local cancer patients. The annual Rosemere Cancer Foundation Bike Ride will start in Catforth, near Preston
Source: www.prestoncitizen.co.uk
Orlando-area sisters to lead team in triathlon at Walt Disney World – Orlando Sentinel
This is the second Mother’s Day that Kaley and Chloe Crebs don’t have a mom, but they refuse to spend it grieving. On Sunday, the Longwood sisters will lead a team of more than 50 of their mother’s friends, who will swim, sweat and cycle in the
Source: www.orlandosentinel.com
Breast Cancer Grows Faster In Younger Women – WLWT 5
The younger a woman is when she is diagnosed with breast cancer, the faster her tumors will grow, according to a new study. Researchers from the Cancer Registry of Norway were looking to see how tumors grow in order to improve cancer screening and
Source: www.wlwt.com
Skin Flaps Deliver Cancer-Fighting Therapy – eMaxHealth.com
Using gene therapy, plastic surgeons have delivered cancer fighting proteins through skin flaps placed on cancerous tumors on rats with a 79 percent reduction in tumor volume, according to a study in the May issue of Plastic and Reconstructive
Source: www.emaxhealth.com
Deaths elsewhere – Baltimore Sun
Paul B. Gordon, who expanded Gordon Food Service Inc. into one of the largest family-owned food distributors in North America, died Tuesday at his home in Ada, Mich., after a brief battle with cancer. The death was confirmed by B. Joseph White
Source: www.baltimoresun.com