Smoke free or free to smoke?
Herald-Bulletin – Mom died of lung cancer, and my dad of lung, colon, bone and liver cancer. They were both life-long smokers who “exercised’ their right to smoke and deluded themselves into believing it would never harm them. If I thought it would change your mind I
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Coltrane’s ‘castle’
Newsday – Coltrane and his family called the place home from 1964 until his death at 40 from liver cancer, 40 years ago tomorrow, at Huntington Hospital. Fulgoni’s group would like to one day see the house restored exactly to its appearance, inside and out, as
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Does caffeine give your health a jolt?
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel – And coffee drinking has also been linked to lower rates of liver cancer, Type 2 diabetes and gout, among other ills. However, scientists warn, correlations such as these don’t prove that the drink itself (or any ingredient in it) is responsible for
Source: www.sun-sentinel.com

Pig disease kills 2 people, sickens more than 40 in Vietnam
Worldnews.com – Worms in Asian fish linked to rare liver cancer in people who eat raw fish International Herald Tribune HANOI , Vietnam : Worms found in freshwater fish in Southeast Asia can lead to a rare type of liver cancer in people who eat raw fish, with one province
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Williams dies of cancer at age 60
FOXSports.com – DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Al Williams, a member of Drake ’s 1969 NCAA Final Four team and one of the school’s all-time leading rebounders, has died of liver cancer. He was 60. Funeral services for Williams, who died Monday at a hospital in Georgia
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Clinical Trials Update News
Genetic Engineering News – Clinical Claims Jul 12 2007, 3:00 AM EST Data Available From ERBITUX(R) Phase III Study in First-Line Treatment of Advanced Lung Cancer Jul 12 2007, 3:00 AM EST Protherics Plc announces Prolarix(TM) dose selected for phase 2 liver cancer
Source: www.genengnews.com

When this game of baseball makes perfect sense
Canton Repository – My comfort zone was just violated, but before I could say anything, she spoke, in a soft and sad voice saying, “My son has liver cancer. It’s terminal. He really wanted to do this before um, thank you so much for taking the time to talk with him
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Dirty drug needles spread hepatitis C
Columbus Dispatch – Twenty years later, about one-fifth of those infected will have liver cirrhosis; some will have liver cancer. The chief route of viral transmission in North America is sharing contaminated needles for illicit drug injections. Having multiple sex
Source: www.dispatch.com

Subscribe to the Times
Quad-Cities Times – Nobody has ever developed liver cancer from sitting next to someone having a beer. Second hand smoke kills millions every year! So if were going to get out the moral mop of inappropriateness to do some cleaning, let’s care enough to start with the
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Dateline Iowa
Des Moines Register – Russell and Ann Gerdin have pledged an additional $1 million on top of an additional $2 million to the $8 million capital campaign for the American Cancer Society Hope Lodge. Gerdin, the CEO of Heartland Express Inc., was diagnosed with liver cancer
Source: www.desmoinesregister.com

Fluoridation Doing More Harm Than Good, Studies Show
Food Consumer – Eating raw freshwater fish increases risk of liver cancer, according to Thai researchers who published their finding in the latest issue of the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Medicine. Jul 12, 2007 – 6:32:25 PM Food & Health : Agri
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Folate may help protect against liver cancer
Food Consumer – A new study conducted in China suggests that low serum folate levels may make people more susceptible to development of liver cancer. Early animal studies have already showed that low folate levels may play a role in liver damage and liver cancer
Source: foodconsumer.org

Relay for Life mingles hope with courage
Beaufort Gazette – Wellard, who has been battling lymphoma for six months and who lost her husband to liver cancer five years ago, helped to start Relay for Life in Beaufort County. In its first 10 years, the event raised more than $500,000 for cancer research, support
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Latest News
dBusinessNews.com – Progen shares have risen over 200% from a year ago on the back of strong phase II data on liver cancer trials. A number of other companies, such as Acrux and ChemGenex, have also had strong price rises with the market starting to appreciate their
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Liver Cancer (Hepatocellular Cancer) Prevention
MedicineNet.com – Doctors cannot always explain why one person gets cancer and another doesn t. However, scientists have studied general patterns of cancer in the population to learn what things around us and what things we do in our lives may increase our chance of
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Students long recall first cadavers
Cincinnati Enquirer – His first cadaver, incidentally, was an older man who died of liver cancer. His arteries were great to work on. We really got lucky. The University of Cincinnati s College of Medicine accepts body donations for its gross anatomy programs
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Ed Tribble Reports
KVOA 4 – Stephen naturally gravitates towards any place with a soccer ball, a goal, and friends. But for the past few years a lot of his time has been taken up battling a rare form of liver cancer. Erica Heartquist, Reports Madera Fire
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Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Provides Operational Update at AGM
Phramalive.com – Alnylam is advancing two drugs using Tekmira’s technology, ALN-PCS-01, a siRNA gene-silencing product targeting hypercholesterolemia, and ALN-VSP01, a siRNA gene-silencing product targeting liver cancer and, potentially, other solid tumours. Out
Source: www.pharmalive.com