Health News: [cancer]

Sponsored Link Special Offer - Free Trial of Blockbuster.com Rent Movies from Blockbuster.com. Delivered Direct To Your Mailbox. Click here to start today. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, November 13, 2011 9:57 AM PST Your Health News Alert for [cancer] matched the following stories: Palm Beach Daily News, Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:55 AM PST Service to be Monday for Evelyn Lauder, beauty exec and pink ribbon co-creator http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/service-to-be-monday-for-evelyn-lauder-beauty-1966283.html?cxtype=rss_news Evelyn Lauder, the longtime Palm Beach resident who helped define the pink ribbon as the symbol of the fight against breast cancer, died Saturday, Nov. MSNBC, Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:51 AM PST A sister's dying wish: Take my place http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/45277650/ns/today-today_health/ Terminally ill with cancer, Jackie DeVita, a 42-year-old mother of three school-age children, made a special request of her unmarried sister. The Huffington Post, Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:37 AM PST Fiber From Whole Grains Could Cut Colorectal Cancer Risk: Study http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/13/fiber-colorectal-cancer-risk-whole-grains_n_1089082.html Getting your fill of fiber from whole grains could help ward off colorectal cancer, according to a new review of studies. PhysOrg, Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:37 AM PST Benefit of novel drug in breast cancer seen in blood within weeks http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-benefit-drug-breast-cancer-blood.html Clinical benefit from use of a novel histone deacetylase inhibitor drug may be determined by examining blood cells days after a patient receives treatment. The drug, entinostat, is the first histone deacetylase inhibitor successfully tested in a randomized, placebo-controlled study in metastatic breast cancer â€" and is the first to show that clinical outcome can be predicted shortly after ... PhysOrg, Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:36 AM PST Signaling pathway linked to inflammatory breast cancer may drive disease metastasis http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-pathway-linked-inflammatory-breast-cancer.html Amplification of anaplastic lymphoma kinase, which has been reported in other cancers such as non-small cell lung cancers, may be a primary driver of the rapid metastasis that patients with inflammatory breast cancer experience. The Times of Trenton, Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:35 AM PST Steamboat's future in jeopardy; floating classroom pulled from the Delaware for what could be the last time http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2011/11/steamboats_future_in_jeopardy.html LAMBERTVILLE - Last week, the steamboat Bart Hoebel called SPLASH was pulled out of the water and stowed for the winter season -- possibly for the last time. After Hoebel's two-year battle with lung cancer ended in June, the famed steamboat and floating classroom lost its treasured captain. PhysOrg, Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:22 AM PST Tamoxifen resistance -- and how to defeat it http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-hdac-inhibitor-resistance-common-breast.html In the last three decades, thousands of women with breast cancer have taken the drug tamoxifen, only to discover that the therapy doesn't work, either because their tumors do not respond to the treatment at all, or because they develop resistance to it over time. Now researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have discovered the molecular basis for tamoxifen resistance and ... Oakley News, Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:18 AM PST Letters to the Editor http://www.contracostatimes.com/orinda/ci_19299505 In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a Pink Encore Performance of Disney's Musical "Aladdin" was presented on Oct. 27 by Excelsior Middle School, Epic Care Cancer Centers and The Volunteer Parents of the Arts Club, directed by Kathy Tickner and Dana Lee. Gay City News, Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:17 AM PST Lou Maletta, TV Pioneer, Dead at 74 http://www.gaycitynews.com/articles/2011/11/10/gay_city_news/community/doc4ebad41dc0263066347802.txt Lou Maletta, who brought gay and AIDS issues, entertainment, and erotica to cable television for 20 years â€" in New York and nationally â€" died of liver cancer on November 2. He was 74. International Business Times, Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:07 AM PST Evelyn Lauder's Death: Cancer Takes One of its Foremost Foes http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/248417/20111113/evelyn-lauder-s-death-cancer-takes-foremost.htm As the daughter-in-law of cosmetics heavyweight Estée Lauder, Evelyn Lauder chose to dedicate much of her life to breast cancer awareness. See more health stories that match your keyword at: http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?fr=yalerts-health&c=&p=cancer+%2bcat%3ahealth&ei=utf-8 Visit Yahoo! Health: http://health.yahoo.com/ You received this email because you subscribed to Yahoo! Alerts. Use http://us.rd.yahoo.com/alerts/b/email/unsubscribe/*http://alerts.yahoo.com/unsubscribe.php?id=gAwHMiEuNLPcJ9ylEVQ8s3G2zEjL.L_gGjIwXn2hWNVcwcT.yk0dSx8C_6OI0z1BiK8QBZJ3lmXXtvnD5KIG6Q2WdzGP_7ROtAR0 to unsubscribe from this alert. 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