BUFFALO, N.Y. — Jack Kemp, the former housing secretary, congressman and Buffalo Bills quarterback, has been diagnosed with cancer, his office said Wednesday. A statement issued in Washington said Kemp was undergoing tests to assess the origin of ...
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Kay Yow once again has to leave her North Carolina State women's basketball program to focus on her fight against cancer. In a statement released by the school Tuesday, the Hall of Fame coach said she will not return to the team this season due to ...
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Patrick Swayze is opening up to Barbara Walters on tonight's "Patrick Swayze: The Truth" airing on ABC. The actor was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year and has revealed he may have just two years to live. Swayze, 56, says he surpassed ...
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One of college baseball’s top pitchers is suing the NCAA over its rules governing the use of advisers, after he was deemed ineligible hours before he was scheduled to play a tournament game. Baseball players —- unlike those in football and ...
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Texas quarterback Colt McCoy threw the ball left and right in the face of Ohio State blitzes on the Longhorns' final drive, then he went for the heart. Receiver Quan Cosby told him that if OSU blitzed, as it had done much of the game, he would run an ...
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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Digoxin, a drug used for many years to treat irregular heart rhythms and heart failure, may also be a cancer-fighting agent, researchers report. Cancer cells need to create new blood vessels to survive. But many ...
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TomoTherapy Incorporated ( NASDAQ: TOMO ) announced today that the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo., has commenced treating patients on its second TomoTherapy ® Hi·Art ...
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) Jack Kemp , the former housing secretary, congressman and Buffalo Bills quarterback, has been diagnosed with cancer, his office said Wednesday. A statement issued in Washington said Kemp was undergoing tests to assess the origin of ...
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Raise high the coffee bean! Good news, coffee-drinkers: a new study shows your beverage of choice may lower your chances of getting oral, esophageal and pharyngeal (back-of-the-throat) cancer . Japanese researchers report in the American Journal of ...
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ScienceDaily (Jan. 7, 2009) — Chronic drinking is a risk factor for colorectal cancer, possibly through the effects of acetaldehyde, which is created by the alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) enzyme. This study investigated if a polymorphism of the ADH1C ...
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