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A scanning electron microscopic image of invading cancer cells and their characteristic spikes or pseudopodia.
While more people die of heart disease in the U.S. than cancer, cancer is still one of the most feared diagnoses a person can receive. There are good reasons for this. Cancer's ability to cause pain is notorious and some of the treatments used to fight the disease can themselves make you very sick. Fortunately, ... Read More
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Nov. 2, 2009 | By Harriet Barovick10 ESSENTIAL STORIES
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Oct. 12, 2009 | By Adi NarayanA new survey highlights the troublesome lack of oversight of teenagers who use cancer-causing tanning beds
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Oct. 12, 2009 | By Vincent BugliosiWhen she died of brain cancer on Sept. 24 at 61, Susan Atkins was in a women's prison in California, serving a life sentence for eight of the most horrific murders in the annals of American crime. Atkins, a Los Angeles native, was 15 when her mother died; soon afterward, she left home to become ...
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Mar. 16, 2009DIED A 22-year veteran of the British soap opera EastEnders, Wendy Richard, 65, endured years of tabloid gossip (sometimes fueled by her husbands). Despite alleged attempts by producers to write her character off the show, Richard, who received a cancer diagnosis in 1996, didn't leave until 2006, saying it was "time to move on." • ...
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Sep. 7, 2009 | By Vivienne WaltCompassion, says the Oxford English Dictionary, means "suffering together." There has been plenty of that among politicians in London and Washington since Scotland's Justice Minister freed Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi on "compassionate grounds" Aug. 20, citing doctors' reports that he was dying of prostate cancer. Al-Megrahi, the sole person jailed for the deaths ...
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