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Cancer - An Overview
Cancer is second only to cardiovascular disease as the leading cause of death in the Western world Although Cancer is primarily a disease of the elderly with more than 60% of deaths from cancer occurring in those over the age of 65, cancer can strike even the youngest of children

Diabetes Drug Kills Cancer Stem Cells in Combination Treatment in Mice
• Metformin is more effective than chemotherapy alone • Study supports cancer stem cells hypothesis • Laboratory study focused on breast cancer cells

New Leader In Cancer Community To Be Announced At Summit
The Wellness Community and Gilda’s Club Unify to Provide Support to All People Affected By Cancer

Alternative Lung Cancer Treatment and You
Most of the people around the world die due to cancer, and one common cause that ties them together is lung cancer The standard age for the diagnosis of this disease is sixty

Sanford Cancer Center Expands
Sanford Hematology and Oncology Moves to New Location

Bone Cancer - Types of Bone Cancer
Bone cancer types of cancer are a subcategory of cancers which afflict the bones There can be two ways in which cancerous cells may affect the bones

Breast Cancer in Men: The Warning Signs
Breast cancer is traditionally thought of as an exclusively female-related disease But like breast cancer in women, breast cancer in men is the uncontrolled growth of the cells of the breast tissue

Exposing the Double Standard of the Forgotten Cancer: Biggest Cancer Killer for Women and Men, Lung Cancer, Receives Least Research Funds
Lung Cancer Foundation of America (LCFA), , new organization trying to give the gift of life this holiday season by highlighting lack of research funding and providing critical support for lung cancer. Lung cancer remains biggest cancer killer for women and men yet receives least funds for research because lung cancer remains only cancer where victims are stigmatized and blamed for their disease.

What Are The Risk Factors For Pancreatic Cancer?
Pancreatic cancer is currently the fifth most common form of cancer in the United States and is diagnosed in around 40,000 Americans each year In most cases pancreatic cancer has an extremely poor survival outcome

What is a Cancer Registrar?
Do you know what a cancer registrar is? Chances are that you do not because cancer registrars represent a very small niche market in oncology healthcare and are usually found working behind-the-scenes.

Genetic Risk Factors in Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is the most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women in the United States. In 2008, approximately 184,450 patients were estimated to be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, and an estimated 40,930 were estimated to die of this disease. Furthermore, over 50,000 female carcinoma in situ breast cases would have been diagnosed. The etiology of breast cancer is poorly understood with multiple genetic and environmental factors involved in the initiation and progression of cancer.

Cancer Prevention is Not Rocket Science
Cancer prevention is not some kind of rocket science It is easier than you may think

World's Longest Prostate Cancer Cure Rates Published at Clinical Oncology Meeting
A long-term study revealing the longest reported Prostate Cancer Cure Rates in the world has been presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Orlando, last week.

Lung Cancer: One of the Most Fatal Illnesses in the World
Lung cancer is one of the more prevalent kind of cancer Smoking is usually the culprit