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Friday, October 07, 2011 10:57 AM PDT
Your Health News Alert for [cancer]
matched the following stories:
Baltimore Sun, Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:56 AM PDT
Laura Elizabeth McGrath http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bs-md-ob-laura-mcgrath-20111007,0,7670071.story?track=rss
Affordable housing advocate Laura Elizabeth McGrath, a Columbia-based affordable housing advocate, died of colon cancer Sept. 22 at her Hyattsville home. The former Northeast Baltimore resident was 46.
The Wenatchee World, Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:56 AM PDT
Prostate tests aren’t worth the risk, panel concludes http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2011/oct/07/prostate-tests-arent-worth-the-risk-panel/
WASHINGTON â€Â" No major medical group recommends routine PSA blood tests to check men for prostate cancer, and now a government panel is saying they do more harm than good and healthy men should no longer receive the tests as part of routine cancer screening. The panel’s guidelines had long advised men over 75 to forgo the tests and the new recommendation extends that do-not-screen advice to ...
Baltimore Sun, Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:56 AM PDT
Harry Robert "Bob" Jones http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bs-md-ob-harry-jones-20111007,0,6553646.story?track=rss
Salesman Harry Robert "Bob" Jones, a retired regional sales manager for a metal products company, died Tuesday of pancreatic cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 79.
The Newton Kansan, Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:55 AM PDT
Show to benefit cancer patients http://www.thekansan.com/news/x1118692804/Show-to-benefit-cancer-patients
Tickets now are on sale for a cancer survivor fashion show in Newton.
Casino City Times, Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:55 AM PDT
Gaming N ews http://www.casinocitytimes.com/news/article/tropicana-las-vegas-goes-pink-for-breast-cancer-awareness-month-198780
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- The all new Tropicana Las Vegas has partnered with Susan G. Komen for the Cure® of Southern Nevada to launch "Pink October," its first ever breast cancer awareness campaign, in support of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Pacific Sun, Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:52 AM PDT
Supe Hal Brown resigns http://www.pacificsun.com/news/show_story.php?id=3635
Ross Valley Supervisor Hal Brown says he's be stepping down from the post he's held nearly three decades. Brown announced last December that he'd been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but has been working from home while undergoing treatment.
Los Angeles Times, Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:50 AM PDT
Pollution link remains hazy http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-breast-cancer-pollutants-20111001,0,6936550.story?track=rss
What's the case for environmental pollutants contributing to breast cancer? Circumstantial evidence keeps patients, doctors, advocates and scientist asking this question, but so far no clear relationship between exposure and disease has been shown in people.
WCVB Boston, Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:49 AM PDT
'Pink Mass' Planned For Cancer Patients http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/29418756/detail.html
The Springfield Diocese is planning its first-ever "Pink Mass" to pray for cancer patients, survivors and their loved ones.
Philly.com, Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:48 AM PDT
Panel rejects prostate test for healthy men http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20111007_Panel_rejects_prostate_test_for_healthy_men.html
Healthy men should no longer receive a PSA blood test to screen for prostate cancer because the test does not save lives over all and often leads to more tests and treatments that needlessly cause pain, impotence, and incontinence in many, a key government health panel concluded.
First Coast News, Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:46 AM PDT
Medical Group to Say Men don't Need Prostate Cancer Screenings, Source Says http://www.firstcoastnews.com/rss/article/221926/10/Medical-Group-to-Say-Men-dont-Need-Prostate-Cancer-Screenings-Source-Says
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the group that told women in their 40s that they don't need mammograms, will soon recommend that men not get screened for prostate cancer, according to a source privy to the task force deliberations.
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