Gene test for lung cancer aggressiveness sought - Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and Canadian researchers have taken steps toward developing a gene test to determine whether a patient's lung cancer is especially aggressive, or whether radical treatment can be avoided. The researchers reported on Sunday

W.Va. police officer beating the odds in bout with brain tumor - Herald-Mail
Mark Johnston was told in 2005 he had between three and six months to live after he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. Johnston has begun working part time at the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department. The tumor now is considered inactive

The Week in Mexico - San Diego Union-Tribune
Kennedy honored: Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., was awarded Mexico's highest honor for his work defending the rights of immigrants during his decades in Congress. The Mexican government said it presented the Aztec Eagle honor to Kennedy in

Injury provided distraction to let Harrington focus on winning second - ESPN.com
SOUTHPORT, England — Beware the wounded golfer. And don't even think about dismissing anyone heading into next month's PGA Championship if he is on crutches, wearing a sling or just left the infirmary. To win a major championship this year, it

Tumor Fighting Viruses - KELOLAND TV
The science itself may be complex, but the idea is relatively simply: modify a common virus that will bypass healthy cells and attack tumors. And in some lab tests involving animals with brain cancer, it's worked. "Even at that late stage of their

Modern Love - New York Times
I ALWAYS knew something would happen to one of my children. I never said it out loud. I didn t allow myself to dwell on it. But the feeling was there: a vague superstition that visited me on my paranoid days, the kind of day that would find me in

Holmes baby continues recovery - Durant Daily Democrat
Since being diagnosed with immature Stage 4 Teratoma and undergoing three chemotherapy treatments in Oklahoma City, Noah Holmes, now one year old, is doing quite well, according to his mother Rebakah Holmes, who lives in Durant. Baby Noah, who was