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4 hrs ago | WWBN-FM Burton

Cancer Survivor Can do Something Crazy With Her Leg [VIDEO]

Meet cancer survivor Jen. Jen had Ewing's Sarcoma, a rare type of bone cancer and eventually had to have an internal hemipelvectomy, the entire ride side of her pelvic bone removed and nothing was replaced.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Tue May 21, 2013

ReporterHerald.com

Lucile Erwin Middle School to host fun run/walk to benefit student with cancer

For the past two months, Lucile Erwin Middle School staff has been putting on fundraisers for a seventh-grader at the school who has cancer.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Mon May 20, 2013

PR-inside.com

MolMed TK four studies accepted for presentation at ASCO 2013

Abstracts are now available on the ASCO 2013 website . This year yet again MolMed had an important number of studies accepted for presentation at ASCO meeting, confirming the quality of our clinical development programme.

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Related Topix: Leukemia, Lung Cancer, Medicine

EurekAlert!

U of M researchers develop model for better testing, targeting of MPNST

MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL - University of Minnesota Medical School researchers from the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, in partnership with the University's Brain Tumor Program, have developed a new mouse model of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors that allow them to discover new genes and gene pathways driving this type of cancer.

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Related Topix: Minnesota, University of Minnesota, Medicine

Daily Mail

Girl who survived cancer can now rotate leg 180 degrees

A young cancer survivor has wowed friends, family and now the internet with a quirky talent she recently revealed in the hopes of winning a contest on the Ellen Degeneres Show.

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Related Topix: The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Ellen Show, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Bone Cancer, Health, Medicine

Business Wire

View Press Release

The Letter provides an overview of the Company's business plan and is available on the Company's website at www.cytrx.com . Excerpts from the Letter are as follows: The coming year promises to be highly eventful as we look forward to reporting data from three clinical trials and prepare to initiate our first-ever international pivotal Phase 3 trial ... (more)

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, CytRx, Healthcare Industry, Oncology, Phase2 Technology, Healthcare Law, Law, Health, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

Journal Gazette

20 participate in walk for cancer

Participants head south on Clinton Street, starting the nearly 4-mile Mirror Me Foundation Cancer Walk on Sunday.

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Related Topix: Non-Profit, Medicine, Health

Sun May 19, 2013

Reinbeck Courier

G-R students hold fundraiser

A small group of G-R High School students got together with a plan to raise $5000 for their classmate Noah Orht and his family to take a family vacation.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Medicine, Health, Family, Teenagers, Reinbeck, IA

Fri May 17, 2013

MediLexicon

Blocking The Protein-Protein Interaction Which Causes Ewing Sarcoma

Continuous infusion of a novel agent not only halted the progression of Ewing sarcoma in rats, while some tumors also regressed to the point that cancer cells could not be detected microscopically, say researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Oncology, Healthcare Law, Law, Food and Drug Administration

Wed May 15, 2013

EurekAlert!

Preclinical tests shows agent stops 'slippery' proteins from binding, causing Ewing sarcoma

Continuous infusion of a novel agent not only halted the progression of Ewing sarcoma in rats, while some tumors also regressed to the point that cancer cells could not be detected microscopically, say researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Georgetown (Washington, DC), Oncology, Healthcare Law, Law, Georgetown University, Food and Drug Administration

Eastern Daily Press

Deryn Blackwell to be discharged from hospital

The Watton schoolboy who has been treated in hospital for a rare duo of cancer for the last three months is to be discharged today.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Tue May 14, 2013

PhysOrg Weblog

Free testosterone drives cancer aggressiveness, study finds

What is the reason for the widely reported fact that men are more likely than women to die of cancer? New evidence from population studies suggests that free testosterone could be a key driver of cancer aggressiveness in a broad range of solid tumors and sarcomas, not just gender-specific cancers, according to researchers at the Danbury Hospital ... (more)

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Related Topix: Medicine, Oncology

Seeking Alpha

3 Biotech Stocks With Potential

Biotechnology companies offer the opportunity to achieve lofty returns but also have the potential for complete failure.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Science / Technology, Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Healthcare Law, Law, Oncology, Health

Sun May 12, 2013

The Press On-Line

UFOs turn out to be lanterns of hope

Aaliyah Kumeroa, 3, left, Tiara Walsh, 10, Jahmayne Walsh, 7, Johnathon Walsh, and Josiah Kumeroa, 9 are all uniting behind Danelle Wakefield as she battles cancer.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Family, Kids

Times Herald-Record

Sullivan girl's memory honored by fundraiser

On Saturday, Bivins mingled among hundreds of people who had participated in the second annual Allyson Whitney 5K Walk/Run at Kauneonga Lake.

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Related Topix: Kauneonga Lake, NY, Medicine, Health, Monticello, NY, Sullivan County, NY

Sat May 11, 2013

The Press On-Line

'Strange' lights lanterns for cancer sufferer

The release of "wish lanterns" at a birthday celebration for a Christchurch cancer sufferer may explain "strange" lights seen in the skies last night.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Offbeat

CiteULike

Novel Systemic Therapies in Advanced Liposarcoma: A Review of Recent Clinical Trial Results

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Genetics

Fri May 10, 2013

Medical News Today

Tumors Invading The Aorta Successfully Removed Via Thoracic Endografts

Tumors have the potential to grow locally and invade neighboring organs. Some chest tumors may invade one of the great vessels of the body, the aorta.

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Related Topix: Health

Thu May 09, 2013

WRAL.com

State responds to mother's plea to investigate teens' cancer cases

One week after the WRAL Investigates team reported on three Wake Forest teenagers battling the same rare form of cancer , state health officials have decided to investigate the cases further.

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Related Topix: Family, Teenagers, Wake Forest, NC, Medicine, Health, Duke University, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Wed May 08, 2013

The Austin Chronicle

AFS Doc Nights: 'How to Survive a Plague'

David France's Oscar-nominated How to Survive a Plague reprises the terror and panic-filled decade of 1987 to 1996, a time when some "mysterious cancer," a terrible wasting disease, first began spreading through the NYC gay community, felling the otherwise healthy and the medical establishment had absolutely nothing in its toolbox to combat it.

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Related Topix: How to Survive a Plague, Gay/Lesbian, HIV/AIDS, Health, North Carolina, Medicine, Activism