Emma Conrad, a junior from Winthrop, ME, will be running over 300 miles in June (24th-30th) as part of the Eastern Trek for Cancer, bringing cancer awareness and raising money along the way. She has...
On March 6, Jessica Leeb, a junior double majoring in Fire Science and Criminal Justice, shaved her head. If you’re wondering why, it is because Leeb became a “shavee” for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.
For...
The brothers of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity hosted their annual “Tackle Breast Cancer Powderpuff Tournament” on Oct. 4. Women on campus were encouraged to put together teams of seven to 12 to participate...
Mattel Incorporation has agreed to make Barbie a bald friend in 2013. According to CBS New York, last year the company made a one-of-a-kind bald Barbie doll for a four year old suffering from cancer who...
A professor at American University in Cairo says that the discovery of prostate cancer in a 2,200 year old mummy indicates that the cancer was caused by genetics and not environment.
"Living conditions...
The largest study involving the idea of a link between cancer and cell phones was completed recently in Denmark after 15 years of research. The participants in this study were 400,000 Danish adults. The...
There is a new price on life. No, not the cereal…but cancer survival. Provenge, a first-of-its-kind drug treatment was approved in April and has shown that it adds four months of survival to male...
NEW YORK – Lynn Redgrave, an introspective and independent player in her family's acting dynasty who became a 1960s sensation as the unconventional title character of Georgy Girl and later dramatized...
Have you ever loved someone so much, that you would be willing to leave your life behind and walk across the country for him or her? Luke Robinson is doing just that, and all in memory of his beloved pooch...
This week, the AFP Newsroom in Washington reported of a study performed in Singapore that shows a link between drinking soda and developing cancer. Pancreatic cancer is one of the most rapidly fatal cancers...
From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Fierce as they are, Tasmanian devils can't beat a contagious cancer that threatens to wipe them out. Now scientists think they've found the disease's origin, a step...
From The Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas gave birth to the modern oil industry, invented the handheld calculator and sent man to the moon. But can the Lone Star State cure cancer?
Texas...
