Somers to Applegate: "Use Your Cancer to Grow" - TV Guide Online
Suzanne Somers on Monday sent an open letter to Christina Applegate , who announced earlier this month that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Somers, 61, was diagnosed with the disease in 2001. In her letter, she tells the 36-year-old

Why Cancer Screening Isn t Always a Good Idea - Wall Street Journal
Cancer screening sounds like the kind of the thing we should all be behind Go out there and get tested! And some screenings, such as pap smears and colonoscopies, are indeed a great way to catch cancers and stop them before they turn deadly

Delcath Expands Phase III Trial for Metastatic Melanoma to Include - Market Wire
NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire - August 12, 2008) - Delcath Systems, Inc. ( NASDAQ : DCTH ) announced today that the John Wayne Cancer Institute ("JWCI"), at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, has joined Delcath's Phase III clinical

S.Korea's Yun wants gold for cancer-hit coach - Guardian Unlimited
BEIJING, Aug 12 (Reuters) - South Korea's Yun Ok-hee said on Tuesday after matching an Olympic record in the women's individual archery that she was solely focused on winning gold for her cancer-stricken coach. "I really want to get a gold medal. I

Cancer Survival Secrets Uncovered - Science Daily
ScienceDaily (Aug. 12, 2008) A team of Monash University researchers has uncovered the role of a family of enzymes in the mutation of benign or less aggressive tumours into more aggressive, potentially fatal, cancers in the human body. The

MabVax Therapeutics Closes Two Licensing Agreements With Sloan - Earthtimes
Author : MabVax Therapeutics, Inc. SAN DIEGO , Aug. 12 /PRNewswire/ — MabVax Therapeutics, Inc., a privately held immunotherapeutics discovery and development company focused on the development and commercialization of novel immunotherapies for the

Cancer-stricken Shanteau makes Olympic debut - Washington Post
Resize BEIJING — Cancer-stricken Eric Shanteau made his Olympic debut Tuesday night, easily advancing out of the 200-meter breaststroke preliminaries just a couple weeks before he will undergo surgery. Carrying the hopes of cancer survivors he's