Youve seen the many stories about breast cancer in The Star as October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This week, three local medical experts give their opinions on diverse topics regarding the disease.
Virtually everyone who knows Britt Beasley describes him in the same way: always smiling, never quits, perseveres through everything, wants to lend a hand. And with what the Kansas University student and Free State High School graduate has gone through in the past three years, that he can keep that attitude could be considered amazing.
Women younger than 40 comprise only 5 percent of breast cancer diagnoses. Yet as the overall incidence of breast cancer rises, so does the number of women for whom a diagnosis can throw into question carefully laid plans for motherhood.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October) does a valuable service in advising women of the diseases early signs and symptoms, the need for screening and the achievements of research work into causes and treatment.
Medco Health Solutions and Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings have reached a strategic research agreement to advance in the field of pharmacogenomics, an emerging science integrating genetics and drug treatment.
Women’s basketball coach Kay Yow is back on chemotherapy, according to N.C. State Media Relations. The veteran coach, who is about to enter her 33rd year at N.C. State, had been off the treatment for about five months.
A follow-up exam for Level 3 Communications Inc. Chief Executive James Crowe revealed no signs that a benign tumor removed from his pituitary gland in August has recurred, the Internet network operator said Tuesday.
BROOMFIELD Level 3 Communications says CEO James Crowe says a follow-up examination shows no recurrence of a benign tumor on his pituitary gland. Crowe underwent surgery for the tumor on Aug. 27 at Stanford Hospital and Clinics in California. He had the follow-up exam Monday.
Medco Health Solutions Inc. and Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings announced a strategic research agreement today to advance the field of pharmacogenomics, an emerging science integrating genetics and drug treatment that is leading the way toward personalized medicine.
Cancer death rates are falling faster than ever in the United States, federal researchers and the American Cancer Society said last week. One obvious reason is a decline in cigarette smoking, but are other lifestyle changes helping to beat cancer? Such as more broccoli and exercise, and less red meat? The Cancer Society recommends 30 minutes of exercise and five or more servings of fruit and …