Barb Schager of Ames was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer one year ago. Schager is now beating cancer and beating the odds. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KCCI CBS 8 Des Moines IA]
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]
It’s being considered the first step to early detection for breast cancer. In the wake of the debate over mammograms and preventive cancer testing, the senate voted to safeguard coverage of those screenings under any kind of health care overhaul. With us is Dorothy Gibbons from The Rose to talk about what the vote means for women. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KRIV FOX 7 Houston, TX]
Ashleigh Marie Kieliszewski fought a 21 month courageous battle with a very aggressive childhood cancer and is now inspiring countless people. Neuroblastoma may have claimed Ashleigh's life, but not before she could teach many the importance of loving and living. Ashleighs Rainbow, authored by mother and daughter, Amy and Ashleigh Kieliszewski, is the second book in the Ashleigh Marie Series and is a follow up to Ashleighs Fairies, the 2007 GOLD Medal Winner in the Moonbeam Children's Book Awards. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WOOD NBC 8 Grand Rapids]
Sparkling gift ideas from Rumanoff's. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WTNH ABC 8 New Haven]
Medical headlines for Friday, December 4. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WNYW FOX 5 New York, NY]
The controversy surrounding recent mammogram advice is taking center stage on Capitol Hill; Fewer Americans are smoking but it is not helping our overall health; Doctor on Call: Bronchitis [www.clipsyndicate.com | KLRT Fox 16 Little Rock]
There was a big turnout at Cazenovia High School Wednesday night where a bone marrow drive was held for 17-year-old senior Taylor Matt. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WSYR ABC 9 Syracuse]
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Lung cancer is the most fatal cancer in the U.S. However a local clinical study is providing new hope for patients. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KMGH ABC Denver]
The Wyatt Detention Center's warden and chief financial officer were suspended with pay Thursday, following a scathing audit of the Central Falls facility. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WPRI CBS 12 Providence]
Mayor Daley is speaking out Thursday about his wife's latest bout with cancer, and he says she's doing well. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WFLD FOX 32 Chicago, IL]
Students went "medieval" at the Elmwood Franklin School. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WNLO CW 23 Buffalo]
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