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, May 07, 2012 10:57 AM PDT Your Health News Alert for [cancer] matched the following stories: ThePress.net, Mon, 07 May 2012 10:35 AM PDT thepress.net - Oakley Relay For LIfe http://www.thepress.net/pages/video_special_single/push?article-Oakley+Relay+For+LIfe%20&id=18486174&instance=vid_thumbs Oakley residents participate in Relay For Life, a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. Video by Arturo Michel EurekAlert!, Mon, 07 May 2012 10:31 AM PDT Screening for breast cancer without X-rays: Lasers and sound merge in promising diagnostic technique http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/osoa-sfb050712.php ( Optical Society of America ) In the first phase of clinical testing of a new imaging device, researchers from Netherlands' University of Twente and Medisch Spectrum Twente Hospital in Oldenzaal used photoacoustics rather than ionizing radiation to detect and visualize breast tumors. The team's preliminary results, which were conducted on 12 patients with diagnosed malignancies, were published ... MTV, Mon, 07 May 2012 10:31 AM PDT Adam Yauch's Cancer: How Rare Is It? http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1684606/adam-yauch-cancer.jhtml 'This is a very tricky cancer,' says head and neck cancer specialist Dr. Spiro Manolidis. Daily Mail, Mon, 07 May 2012 10:30 AM PDT New blood test could provide hint of a prostate cancer relapse http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2140854/New-blood-test-provide-hint-prostate-cancer-relapse.html?ITO=1490 Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh claim that testing blood for a genetic abnormality - called the CNV - determines how quickly the cancer will spread. Soccer365, Mon, 07 May 2012 10:27 AM PDT Trap sympathises with McCarthy http://www.soccer365.com/news/european_news/general/15973/trap_sympathises_with_mccarthy Giovanni Trapattoni is sad for James McCarthy and his family after agreeing to omit the player from the Republic of Ireland's Euro 2012 squad. McCarthy has withdrawn from the Republic squad for this summer's finals in Poland and Ukraine after revealing his father has been diagnosed with cancer. Business Wire, Mon, 07 May 2012 10:24 AM PDT Biovest to Present at Cancer Immunotherapy Leaders Forum http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120507005940/en/Biovest-Present-Cancer-Immunotherapy-Leaders-Forum TAMPA, Fla. & MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Biovest will present on its BiovaxID personalized lymphoma cancer vaccine at the Immunotherapy Leaders’ Forum 2012 being held May 9-11 at the Fira Palace in Barcelona, Spain. Charleston City Paper, Mon, 07 May 2012 10:20 AM PDT Photos: Dragon Boat Festival raises $100K+ for cancer survivors http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/photos-dragon-boat-festival-raises-100k-for-cancer-survivors/Content?oid=4069739 The Charleston Dragon Boat Festival benefiting local cancer survivor programs marked its fifth annual outing on Saturday at Brittlebank Park. Teams of 20 paddled the 48-foot-long Chinese dragon boats, competing in 60 250-meter races during the day-long event. indieWIRE, Mon, 07 May 2012 10:18 AM PDT Adam Yauch Remembered: Filmmakers Share Their Memories of the Late Oscilloscope and Beastie Boys Founder http://www.indiewire.com/article/adam-yauch-remembered-filmmakers-oren-moverman-kelly-reichardt-vincent-grashaw-bradley-rust-gray-and-so-yong-kim-share-their-memories-of-the-late-oscilloscope-and-beastie-boys-founder Last week ended on a sad note for millions of Beastie Boys fans when Adam Yauch, aka MCA, passed away after a prolonged battle with cancer. But Yauch's influence extended far beyond the music community. As the co-founder of indie-film distribution company Oscilloscope Laboratories, Yauch applied a quality-based approach to the distribution game at a time when a lot of filmmakers were struggling ... WHAS TV11 Louisville, Mon, 07 May 2012 10:18 AM PDT Interview: Relay for Life event at Seneca High School http://www.whas11.com/news/local/Interview-Relay-for-Life-event-at-Seneca-High-School-150433865.html LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) -- It’s an annual event that gives people in communities across the nation a chance to celebrate the lives of people who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost, and fight back against the disease.   Rhonda Woody from the Relay for Life and Alana Baker from the American Cancer Society stopped by the WHAS11 studio to share details about the upcoming “Relay for Life ... Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology, Mon, 07 May 2012 10:16 AM PDT Curis earns $4M milestone payment for cancer drug http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2012/05/07/daily11-Curis-earns-4M-milestone-payment-for-cancer-drug.html Curis Inc. (Nasdaq:CRIS) of Lexington, a drug development company seeking to develop next generation targeted small molecule drug candidates for cancer treatment, has announced that its collaborator Swiss-based Roche Group, has submitted an application to Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) for marketing registration for an oral drug to treat advanced basal cell carcinoma (BCC). 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=QAorObcuNLMmLCB4T20XXrcI0Sz7.nEwrUtH8brIa4k8.w3oMRUcYqqZf1rkAgoz30BVrU4c6rJQe2aCcM1m2e5C6UbmL3HsouL0 to unsubscribe from this alert. 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