SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (ABC 4 NEWS) - A firefighter is battling cancer for the third time and taking his message of hope across the country. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KTVX ABC 4 Salt Lake City]
It's an annual campaign that helps raise money for cancer support groups. Mercy Medical Center kicked off its "gift of light" campaign tonight with a special tree lighting. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WWLP NBC 22 Springfield M]
The eight-story, $178 million expansion of the Van Andel Institute set for a ceremonial opening Tuesday will allow the institute, which has long focused on cancer, to expand research into other disease areas. Cancer will continue to be a "heavy empasis," communications vice president Joe Gavan told 24 Hour News 8, but the institute will grow research into diseases such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WOOD NBC 8 Grand Rapids]
There was a time in the recent past when hormone therapy for aging women was in widespread use. but that has changed... and now doctors are noticing the benefits of that change. John Fauber reports. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WTMJ Milwaukee, WI]
(12/5/09) - Smyrna Middle School's principal was honored for her fight against cancer at a basketball game. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WSMV Nashville, TN]
Some Santa Fe residents are gearing up for a fight over a proposed law that could mean more cell-phone towers in the community. Now a documentary entitled “Full Signal” that’s being screened in the capitol city is adding fuel to the fire. “They are seeing cancer cases in the vicinity of the antennas and some people have died, some are still sick and dying,” said Talal Jabari, the director of the documentary. Jabari says his documentary explores research into how cell phones affect the body and highlights a community that’s seen an increase in serious illness around antenna sites. Aurthur FirstenBerg, a member of a Santa Fe group whose members say they are electro-sensitive, says that high cellular frequencies affect health. “This affects my heart, my nervous system, my lungs,” he says. The group is mobilizing against a company that wants to set up cell-phone towers in the city’s rights of way, towers that are called community friendly and can be hidden in things like street signs or blend into buildings. The World Health Organization has stated that it has not found any conclusive proof that cell-phone antennas cause cancer or other major health problems. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KOB Albuquerque]
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Could one of the hottest holiday gifts put your child's health in jeopardy? [www.clipsyndicate.com | WIVB CBS 4 Buffalo]
Money raised for sick firefighter [www.clipsyndicate.com | KRQE CBS 13 Albuquerque]
The community comes together for a benefit for a local soldier and his family after he enlisted in hopes of obtaining medical benefits for his wife who is suffering from ovarian cancer. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WTMJ Milwaukee, WI]
The list of the Top 5 fugitives wanted by Bernalillo County sheriff's investigators includes suspects alleged to be a crooked used-car salesman and a woman who likes to steal even though she's battling cancer. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KRQE CBS 13 Albuquerque]
Holiday Tree of Hope shines in Buffalo [www.clipsyndicate.com | WIVB CBS 4 Buffalo]
The search is on for suspects in a brazen mugging. An elderly couple was held up inside an elevator at a cancer center near Derby's Griffin Hospital Tuesday morning. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WTNH ABC 8 New Haven]
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39-year-old Melinda Maletic just had her first mammogram. "I think it's important to be screened," she said. Now -- by giving just three teaspoons of her blood, she's playing a critical role in breast cancer research. For Melinda, the fight against the disease is personal, "I have a really good friend who just passed away from breast cancer, so the earlier you know, the better." Melinda joins more than 20-thousand other bay area women who have given a blood sample at California Pacific Medical Center for researchers to study. By studying their blood, researchers hope one day they'll be able to develop a blood test that can detect whether a woman is at higher risk of developing breast cancer. Researchers have already discovered an important link between how much tissue is in a woman's breast, or her breast density, and a higher risk of developing breast cancer. A risk even higher than family history. "We think that breast cancers come out of tissue in the breast, not the fat so therefore the more tissue in a breast the greater the risk of developing breast cancer," Dr. Steve Cummings, a breast cancer researcher, said. Doctors also say it's much harder to detect tumors in the mammogram of a woman with dense breasts. But why do some women have dense breasts and others don't? Researchers are looking for answers in volunteers' blood. "Right now the blood that's been stored from participants in the study is being used to understand what the genetic basis of breast density might be. If we can understand the genes that contribute to it we can find new ways of preventing breast cancer," Dr. Cummings said. Researchers are also studying blood for hormones and genetic markers that may increase a woman's risk of breast cancer. Scientists don't see a blood test ever replacing a mammogram. But they do hope one day it will be used with the traditional screening to accurately assess high risk patients, giving them the early warning needed to start taking potentially life saving medications. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KOB Albuquerq
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As senators debate health care reform, there is one provision they agreed upon - making sure mammograms and preventative screening tests for women are covered. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KXAN NBC 36 Austin]
A Lancaster County restaurant is stepping in to help a 2-year-old boy suffering from a rare form of brain cancer. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WGAL NBC 8 Lancaster PA]
As we first told you on Thursday, one lucky Houston woman got the experience of a lifetime, thanks to a special man known as the Experience Genie. Mary Carroll is fighting breast cancer, and came back to FOX 26 Morning News Extra to share her story. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KRIV FOX 7 Houston, TX]
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