| TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- An antipsychotic drug used as a therapy for schizophrenia appears to have an unusual property -- it can neutralize some cancer stem cells that allow tumours to come back after treatment. GENEVA (AP) -- A year after Japan's nuclear accident at Fukushima, the World Health Organization says several areas near the plant had radiation above cancer-causing levels but most of the nation did not. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Healthy men shouldn't get routine prostate cancer screenings, says updated advice from a government panel that found the PSA blood tests do more harm than good. (ASSOCIATED PRESS) - A simple, cheaper exam of just the lower part of the bowel can cut the risk of developing colon cancer or dying of the disease, a large federal study finds. CHICAGO (AP) -- New lung cancer screening guidelines from three medical groups recommend annual scans but only for an older group of current or former heavy smokers. (USA TODAY) -- New research highlights drugs that make cancer therapy easier, but it also underscores the difficulties patients may encounter after treatment. (USA TODAY) -- After learning she had advanced ovarian cancer, Susan Gubar felt the need to reassure her two grown daughters that not even death could separate them. (The New York Times News Service) -- San Francisco -- Donna Summer, the graceful and commanding singer who ruled the disco era with hits like "Last Dance" and "Bad Girls, winning five Grammy Awards, died Thursday in Florida. She was 63. TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- The death toll cancer takes in Canada is on the decline, fuelled in large part by the fact that lung cancer is killing fewer Canadian men than it did in earlier decades, the Canadian Cancer Society said Wednesday. ATLANTA (AP) -- Half of U.S. adults under 30 say they have had a sunburn at least once in the past year, a government survey found - a sign young people aren't heeding the warnings about skin cancer. CHICAGO (AP) -- Men rarely get breast cancer, but those who do often don't survive as long as women, largely because they don't even realize they can get it and are slow to recognize the warning signs, researchers say. | News brought to you by: | | | | | | |
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