American Samoa Community Cancer Coalition Ua o gatasi le futia me le umele.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has issued new guidelines which should improve access to life-extending drugs for people dying from cancer.

Providence Journal
Claiborne Pell remembered as “the right kind of aristocrat” with a ...
Providence Journal, RI - 15 hours ago
Born to a family whose wealth dated back centuries, Pell married Nuala O’Donnell, who comes from a family that founded the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., ...

News in brief
Contra Costa Times, CA - 16 hours ago
Bush to establish three marine monuments in Pacific: Parts of three remote and uninhabited Pacific island chains are being set aside by President George W. ...

Economic downturn, budget woes top news in 2008
Nantucket Island Inquirer, MA - Jan 2, 2009
23 after a battle with breast cancer. She was 66. Orange Street Video, a mid-island icon for 22 years, closed its doors after a suitable buyer wasn’t found ...

Foundations With Madoff Gave Away $73 Million in 2007: Table
Bloomberg - Jan 1, 2009
Friends of The Israel Museum 2007 $10000 New York, NY American Cancer Society 2007 $40000 Atlanta, GA American Committee For The Weizmann Institute 2007 ...

Professor Douglas Easton, director of the Cancer Research UK Genetic Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge, has been selected to receive the inaugural American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Outstanding Investigator Award in Breast Cancer Research.

Deadlier than Ebola virus
Cebu Daily News, Philippines - Dec 28, 2008
“In August, Philippine authorities sent samples from the dead pigs to the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in New York, where scientists detected the ...

Daily Mail
Two centuries on, a salute to Charles Darwin: Hero for our age
Daily Mail, UK - Dec 26, 2008
He saw how a variety of birds, apparently with a common ancestor, had adapted to the slightly different conditions on each of the Galapagos Islands. ...

Foundations With Madoff Gave Away $73 Million in 2007: Table
Bloomberg - Dec 26, 2008
Friends of The Israel Museum 2007 $10000 New York, NY American Cancer Society 2007 $40000 Atlanta, GA American Committee For The Weizmann Institute 2007 ...

A Canadian study has confirmed the effectiveness of colonoscopy as a means of preventing cancer deaths, it has been revealed. Colonoscopy is a technique that allows doctors to see inside the bowel, so pre-cancerous growths or tumours can be spotted and removed.

A firm link between smoking and bowel cancer has been established following a review of studies into the area.

Bowel cancer screening is predicted to save over two and a half thousand lives every year in the UK by 2025, according to new research published in the Journal of Medical Screening today*.

Emissions ruling halts South Bay projects
Daily Breeze, CA - Dec 21, 2008
Diesel represents a significant cancer risk," he said. But Judge Ann Jones did not buy that. Quoting the environmental groups that filed the suit, ...

Scientists from Spain have discovered that chemicals in olive oil can block the activity of a key breast cancer gene, in laboratory tests.

The National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA) programme has commissioned a study to assess the feasibility of a lung cancer screening programme in the UK.

Cancer Research UK has received an award for its website at the annual Website of the Year awards.

Cancer Research UK scientists have discovered for the first time that stem cells could be the root cause of bowel cancer, according to a study published in Nature* today (Wednesday).

Other deaths
Washington Observer Reporter, PA - Dec 17, 2008
The infectious agents include one implicated in mad-cow disease. His research triumphs were marred by a child molestation case when, in 1997, ...