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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, December 09, 2011 10:19 AM PST Your Health News Alert for [cancer] matched the following stories: Senior Journal, Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:54 AM PST Why Observing Prostate Cancer Gaining Ground On Surgery: NIH Panel Says Not Cancer http://www.seniorjournal.com/NEWS/Health/2011/20111209-WhyObservingProstate.htm Dec. 9, 2011 - A federally convened panel of experts says most men with newly diagnosed prostate cancer should be offered the chance to put off treatment in favor of medical monitoring of their condition. National Cancer Institute, Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:50 AM PST National Cancer Institute http://www.cancer.gov/newscenter/pressreleases/2011/UCSDStarchIntakeAndBreastCancer Researchers have linked increased starch intake to a greater risk for breast cancer recurrence, according to results presented at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec. 6-10, 2011... Researchers conducted a subset analysis of 2,651 women who participated in the Women's Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) Dietary Intervention Trial, a plant-based intervention trial that ... Prep Rally, Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:50 AM PST 2 months after cancer diagnosis, hoops star to return to court http://sports.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/2-months-after-cancer-diagnosis-hoops-star-to-r?urn=highschool-wp9732 Katie Collier is one of the most talent girls basketball players in the nation. The senior star of Seattle (Wash.) Christian High, Collier stands 6-foot-3 and is considered one of the nation's more versatile forwards. After committing to nearby Washington, Collier was expected to have a big senior season leading Seattle Christian to a dominant season. Then, everything changed. Collier was ... Sports Illustrated, Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:50 AM PST Olympic torchbearers represent England's cities http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/olympics/12/09/2012-Olympic-torchbearers.ap/index.html?eref=si_more LONDON (AP) -- Among the people selected to carry the torch for the 2012 London Games are community organizers, cancer survivors, disabled children and an Iraq war veteran. Wellness, Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:36 AM PST Study: Bone Drug Boosts Breast Cancer Survival http://healthland.time.com/2011/12/09/study-bone-drug-boosts-breast-cancer-survival/ Doctors were mostly hoping to prevent complications and relapses when they gave young women a medicine to keep their bones strong during breast cancer treatment. Seven years later, they found it did more than that: The bone drug improved survival, … Continue reading â†' Daily Mail, Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:35 AM PST Skin cancer: Women who smoke for 20 years are twice as likely to develop non-melanoma form of condition http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2072196/Skin-cancer-Women-smoke-20-years-twice-likely-develop-non-melanoma-form-condition.html?ITO=1490 Females are at greater risk than men of being diagnosed with a form of skin cancer that can spread to other organs, say scientists at the Moffitt Cancer Centre in Tampa, Florida. Provo Daily Herald, Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:34 AM PST Cancer treatments leave family unable to provide Christmas http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/cancer-treatments-leave-family-unable-to-provide-christmas/article_e09fb1df-4e65-563e-83a9-6cd535acd5cc.html Lucy went through a lot in a short period of time. She had both her father and mother die of cancer. She gave birth to a daughter, then she was diagnosed with cancer herself. Sports Illustrated, Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:29 AM PST Selected Olympic torchbearers represent good and great in cities across England http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/olympics/12/09/2012-Olympic-torchbearers.ap/index.html?section=si_latest LONDON (AP) -- Among the people selected to carry the torch for the 2012 London Games are community organizers, cancer survivors, disabled children and an Iraq war veteran. BBC News, Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:28 AM PST Chemotherapy row girl, 13, dies http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-wales-16108469 A 13-year-old girl who was at the centre of a debate about whether or not she should continue to receive cancer treatment has died. Lakes Region Weekly, Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:27 AM PST Inside Raymond â€" 12/9 http://www.keepmecurrent.com/lakes_region_weekly/news/community_columns/inside-raymond/article_cdcd7cd2-2288-11e1-a876-0019bb2963f4.html Amy Denecker, librarian at Windham High School, has recently learned that her 3-year-old daughter, Alice, sadly has a form of cancer called neuroblastoma. 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=.ACD50YuNLOagtG88R5yUw.6gmQZ8jjhobHtZC2g1Ed5.u5kkvDxWEh74z5yZxzbZiKUqdA1arYBDf3T4U9e4mdk_DfasXTfa9Ik to unsubscribe from this alert. 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