New technology could improve cancer treatments (International Herald Tribune) Researchers have developed a test that can identify minute amounts of tumor cells floating in the blood of cancer patients.  (more...)

Rock musician Natasha Shneider dies of cancer (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Singer/songwriter Natasha Shneider, who collaborated with former Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell and rock band Queens of the Stone Age, died Tuesday of cancer.  (more...)

Smokeless Tobacco Products Do Raise Cancer Risk (MedicineNet.com) Title: Smokeless Tobacco Products Do Raise Cancer Risk Category: Health News Created: 7/3/2008 2:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7/3/2008  (more...)

New Drug Slows Thyroid Cancer (MedicineNet.com) Title: New Drug Slows Thyroid Cancer Category: Health News Created: 7/3/2008 2:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7/3/2008  (more...)

Dangerbird Records Launches Cancer Foundation (CMJ) Dangerbird Records has launched the Pablove Foundation, named after Pablo Castelaz, the five-year-old son of the label's co-founder, Jeff Castelaz. In May of this year, Pablo was diagnosed with Wilm's Tumor, a rare form of children's cancer.  (more...)

Does Herpes Cause Brain Cancer? [News] (Scientific American) Editor's Note: This story will be published in the next issue of Scientific American Mind. The deadliest and most common type of brain cancer has a strange bedfellow: cytomegalovirus, a kind of herpes present in about 80 percent of the U.S. population. Now scientists are exploiting this coincidence to treat the cancer with a vaccine that targets the virus and slows tumor regrowth. [More]   (more...)

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