health - "cancer"

These woman are only a few of the 1,400 people who took park in the 60-km, two-day Weekend to End Breast cancer walk in Calgary, yesterday.

AP - When Amy Morris' twin boys, then 11, went on an academic trip to Washington last year, she agreed to give them cell phones at the program's request. But this summer she was dismayed to learn that girls at her 8-year-old daughter's day camp were using cell phones they'd taken along in their backpacks.

It's a classic parenting dilemma of the wireless age: Should kids have cell phones? Last week's warning by the head of a cancer research institute is adding to the debate.

A fruitful collaboration between chemists and biologists has made it possible to identify the effects of a new class of molecules, polyoxometalates, primarily composed of metals and oxygen.

The role of mushrooms in reducing the risk of breast and prostate cancers and in stunting the growth of these cancers will be tested shortly with the start of human clinical trials at the City of Hope research centre in California.

Austin consultant Mike Dewey, 48, has a plan to eliminate breast cancer; he's offering $1 billion to the person who discovers the cure.

Cancer has the potential to break through normal breast tissue barriers and spread to other parts of the body.

Background The 70 kDa ribosomal protein S6 kinase , located at 17q23, is amplified and overexpressed in 10-30% of primary breast cancers and breast cancer cell lines.

EPG health Media, developers of e-communication and clinical information solutions for the health sector, today announced the launch of a new interactive Non-small Cell Lung cancer Knowledge Centre within the web-based physician resource www.epgonline.org.

Cornerstone Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held pharmaceutical company, announced today that it has received clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin a Phase I/II clinical trial evaluating the safety and early efficacy of its first-in-class Altered Energy Metabolism-Directed (AEMD) compound, CPI-613, in a variety of cancer types.