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, April 30, 2012 10:57 AM PDT Your Health News Alert for [cancer] matched the following stories: Richmond Times-Dispatch, Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:50 AM PDT McDonnell signs bill advancing cancer care http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/virginia-politics/2012/apr/30/mcdonnell-signs-bill-advancing-cancer-care-ar-1879914/ Advocates for cancer care and research, researchers and others were present for the ceremony. PR Newswire, Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:47 AM PDT Karmanos Cancer Institute's 30th Annual Dinner raises nearly $1.7 Million to Benefit Cancer Care http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/karmanos-cancer-institutes-30th-annual-dinner-raises-nearly-17-million-to-benefit-cancer-care-149526335.html Most Successful Annual Dinner in Karmanos Cancer Institute's History DETROIT, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute's 30th Annual Dinner held Saturday, April 28, raised nearly $1.7 million to benefit Karmanos' exceptional cancer... The Shelby County Reporter, Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:47 AM PDT Newspapers, Schools, Breaking News, Sports, Weather, Alabama, Pelham, Alabaster, Calera, Hoover, Birmingham http://www.shelbycountyreporter.com/2012/04/30/love-bug-pageant-raises-money-for-childhood-cancer/ When Helena resident Reilly Montgomery was 9 years old, her parents took her to the doctor thinking she had a simple bladder infection. They soon found out she had kidney cancer and endured 28 weeks of chemotherapy and radiation for stage-three cancer. New York Times, Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:47 AM PDT New Perspectives From Cancer Patients http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/health/views/new-perspectives-from-cancer-patients.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Two new books, one by a group of medical ethicists and another by the feminist critic Susan Gubar, offer searing accounts of confronting a lethal disease. Baytown Sun, Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:37 AM PDT Poker great Thomas 'Amarillo Slim' Preston dies http://baytownsun.com/texas_ap/article_de879ee8-ce6b-5e6b-b758-3265a5e621f5.html Thomas Austin "Amarillo Slim" Preston Jr., an acclaimed professional poker player who fancied himself the "World's Greatest Gambler," has died. Bunky Preston said Monday that his father died of colon cancer Sunday in hospice care in Amarillo, Texas. He was 83. The Huffington Post, Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:32 AM PDT Claire Bidwell Smith: Recovering From Loss: Coping With Cancer at Age 14 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/claire-bidwell-smith/coping-with-cancer_b_1242179.html I was 14 when both of my parents were diagnosed with cancer at the same time. Being an only child, the ensuing years of hospitals, surgeries and chemo treatments were lonely ones. PR Newswire, Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:31 AM PDT Coty Inc. And DKMS Help Raise Record $3.2 Million To Support The DKMS 6th Annual Gala: Linked Against Blood Cancer http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/coty-inc-and-dkms-help-raise-record-32-million-to-support-the-dkms-6th-annual-gala-linked-against-blood-cancer-149522525.html NEW YORK, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The DKMS 6th Annual Gala: Linked Against Blood Cancer, hosted by Katharina Harf, Chief Inspiration Officer of DKMS Americas, was held on Thursday night at Cipriani Wall Street to a sold out audience. The gala once again broke records of... This is Bristol, Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:26 AM PDT The Post published Award-winning reporter who battled for justice http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Award-winning-reporter-battled-justice/story-15960532-detail/story.html FORMER Post chief reporter Julie Harding has died of cancer. She was just 51. New Orleans Times-Picayune, Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:16 AM PDT Mandeville Relay for Life May 19 Fontainebleau State Park http://www.nola.com/community/st-tammany/index.ssf/2012/04/mandeville_relay_for_life_may.html The American Cancer Society is celebrating and raising funds with its annual all-night event, Relay for Life St. Tammany, on May 19 at Fontainebleau High School, from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. “This year our theme is Laissez Les Bon... Diagnostic Imaging, Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:15 AM PDT Automated Breast Volume Sonography Improves Cancer Detection Among Asian Women http://www.diagnosticimaging.com/womens-imaging/content/article/113619/2066468?CID=rss ABVS agreed with hand-held ultrasound in detecting 15 suspicious lesions, but also detected 12 additional lesions and excluded 12 lesions. 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=TJT.uf8uNLMg2Hb40OfXaLm3I4S0hG5_4ILhyg2TA.a_Z7YUfI9kj9QRoNp4ORSZ.ikozMaBVDZ56pvQ8XfdP841FBhAmUM2QjVI to unsubscribe from this alert. 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