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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, February 20, 2012 9:57 AM PST Your Health News Alert for [cancer] matched the following stories: GenomeWeb News, Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:48 AM PST 'The Immortal Devil' http://www.genomeweb.com/blog/immortal-devil A paper recently published in Cell shows that the cancer plaguing Tasmanian devils started spreading about 15 years ago from one infected female devil, reports Scientific American 's Katherine Harmon. Reuters, Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:47 AM PST Turnout steady at Komen race despite controversy http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/20/us-komen-race-idUSTRE81J12Y20120220?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews El PASO, Texas (Reuters) - The decision by Susan G. Komen for the Cure to cut, and later restore, funding for Planned Parenthood did not seem to affect turnout on Sunday for the first Race for the Cure breast cancer fundraiser held since the controversy erupted this month. Albany Democrat-Herald, Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:35 AM PST Workshops offered for cancer survivors http://democratherald.com/news/local/59782ed2-5be9-11e1-bd1d-0019bb2963f4.html LEBANON â€" Cancer survivors who have ever received treatment at Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital can learn art skills through four free workshops in March. New Kerala, Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:35 AM PST Promising novel therapeutic target for cancer identified http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-161570.html London, Feb 20 : After years of studying the molecular bases of glioblastoma - the most common brain tumour and one of the most aggressive of all cancers - scientists have identified a new therapeutic target for the fatal disease. WTOL 11 Toledo, Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:34 AM PST Toledo nurse charged with stealing medications http://www.wtol.com/story/16974341/toledo-nurse-charged-with-stealing-medications A Toledo nurse is facing eight felony charges after police said he stole pain medication from cancer patients. Nicholas Kukiela was charged and released until his next court date. Post South, Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:30 AM PST John Quattrucci: Catch you later, Kid http://www.postsouth.com/opinions/columnists/x1793840396/John-Quattrucci-Catch-you-later-Kid Gary Carter, 10-month old Molly Quattrucci and the author pose together in 2002. The Hall of Fame catcher died Thursday after losing his battle with brain cancer. He was 57. Del Mar Times, Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:28 AM PST Carmel Valley resident named medical director of Scripps Proton Therapy Center http://www.delmartimes.net/2012/02/20/carmel-valley-resident-named-medical-director-of-scripps-proton-therapy-center/ Dr. Carl J. Rossi, Jr. is a wiry running enthusiast who clocks 30 to 40 miles a week, a private pilot who has logged 4,000 flying hours, and a radiation oncologist who has treated 9,000 prostate cancer patients with “state-of-the-art” proton radiation over the past 20 years, more than any other physician in the world. PhysOrg, Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:20 AM PST Mapping of protein inhibitors facilitates development of tailor-made anticancer agents http://www.physorg.com/news248962366.html (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has generated a map over the effects of small drug-like molecules on PARP1 and other similar proteins in the body. This map may explain the mechanism behind putative side effects of the so-called PARP inhibitors, and can play an important role in the development of novel tailor-made cancer drugs. The study is presented in ... Business Wire via Yahoo! Canada Finance, Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:14 AM PST Theragenics Acquires Core Oncology’s Prostate Brachytherapy Customer Base http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/theragenics-acquires-core-oncology-prostate-171400008.html Theragenics Corporation® , a medical device company serving the surgical products and prostate cancer treatment markets, today announced that it has purchased Core Oncology’s prostate brachytherapy customer base. Reuters via Yahoo! News, Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:06 AM PST Alcohol seen killing 200,000 Britons in next 20 years http://news.yahoo.com/alcohol-seen-killing-200-000-britons-next-20-000643960.html LONDON (Reuters) - Up to 210,000 people in England and Wales will be killed prematurely by alcohol over the next 20 years, with a third of those preventable deaths due to liver disease alone, health experts warned Monday. 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