Cancer Care

The Tack Trunk in Lebanon, Ohio will host a special fundraiser for cancer on Saturday, June 28.

Tack Trunk will be selling lemonade to raise money for Alex’s Lemonade Stand from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Alex’s Lemonade Stand is a charity that raises money for cancer research and care of patients through the sales of lemonade. The stands were started by a 4-year-old cancer patient named Alexandra “Alex” Scott, who sold lemonade from her front lawn in order to raise money to help “her doctors” find a cure for children with cancer.

This is the fourth year Tack Trunk has participated in the event. Tack Trunk is located at 700 South Ohio 42 in Lebanon.

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Lismore MP Thomas George welcomed the announcement in Tuesday’s NSW budget of $12.2 million to start work on the $27m Lismore integrated cancer care unit.
“This is a great win for the community, one of our biggest priorities has been the cancer unit, and they’ve allocated exactly what is needed,” Mr George said. “It is great recognition of the community who continually fought for this.”
Also included in the budget was $2.9m for the Rural Cardiac Catheterisation Lab Strategy; provision for the replacement of demountable classrooms with permanent facilities at Wyrallah Road Public School; more than $1m for community transport services for the elderly and people with disabilities; $88,000 for court upgrades and the Justicelink project; and $27m for road projects in the area including the Lismore to Coraki Road and Dunoon Road.
“The cardiac catheterisation lab strategy means people will be able to access the public system for heart tests in the region,” Mr George said.
Greens MLC Ian Cohen said he thought the Iemma government had its priorities mixed up by allocating such a large amount for the desalination plant at Kurnell in Sydney.
“In this year’s budget, they have allocated almost as much on their white elephant desal plant as they have budgeted for the entire operations of the Department of Environment and Climate Change: $886m versus $986m,” Mr Cohen said. “The government leads by example when it comes to promoting the consumer ahead of the conserver society.
“This is an incentive to consume more, not less and is symptomatic of the mindset of our leaders who, when they see the community pointing to sustainability ahead, u-turn back to consumption.
“Right now, 1046 native species, populations and ecological communities are listed as threatened with extinction in this state. This list has grown by 33 since last September. It is significant that the long-awaited biodiversity strategy was not mentioned in Tuesday’s budget.”

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June 25, 2008 marks a revolutionary day in history for anybody who cares about Lung Cancer, the Number One Cancer Killer in this country. It’s almost tantamount to July 4th, Independence Day, for Lung Cancer. For the first time, in the last four decades, Lung Cancer finally has a voice, thanks to Senators Chuck Hagel, Dianne Feinstein and the tireless work over the last five years of Laurie Fenton, Sheila Ross and the Lung Cancer Alliance.
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“I truly believe cancer changed my life for the better,” Lynn Ettinger of Morris said during a stormy June afternoon.

For Ettinger, being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004 was a positive experience.

“It gave me a different outlook on life,” Ettinger said. “I believe I was healed by God. I also found a network of women who were going through the same experience as me. To share our stories, was so helpful.”

Around the same time Ettinger found out she had cancer, news came that her sister-in-law, Carol, had also been diagnosed with breast cancer.
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OCALA, FL (AP) — It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that cancer saved Tanja and Dan Buckley’s marriage. But they also happened to be at the right place at the right time, talking to the right person.

Tanja’s cervical cancer wasn’t an issue. She is a two-year survivor. But the disease had taken a toll on the Buckleys’ 24-year marriage, not to mention years of piled up tension. And just then, about two months ago, when they were ready to let go and walk away, things took an unexpected turn. Sensing tension in Tanja, her oncologist at the Robert Boissoneault Oncology Institute, Dr. Norman Anderson, told her that there was someone on the staff she could talk to.
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He has a house and a beautiful vineyard on about 18 acres. But something is missing, or rather, someone.

After a battle with breast cancer that lasted more than seven years, Brown’s wife of 48 years, Arlene, passed away in 2005.

But Brown continued to fight the disease in an unusual way: by creating a new line of wines called “Cleavage Creek” and donating a percentage of the profits from the winery toward cutting-edge breast cancer research. (more…)

LAFAYETTE — The American Cancer Society is looking for people to play a direct role in improving the lives of future generations by participating in a historic study.

The ACS will sign up volunteers for its third Cancer Prevention Study at the Relay for Life of Tippecanoe County from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. June 27 at the Lafayette Jefferson High School track. The study, which will enroll a diverse population of half a million people across the United States, will help researchers better understand the lifestyle, environmental and genetic factors that cause or prevent cancer, and will further efforts to eliminate cancer as a major health concern for future generations.
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Cancer agencies launched a massive new study yesterday that aims to track 300,000 Canadians over two or three decades, potentially generating valuable new data on what causes the disease.

Unprecedented in size for this country, the project will conduct surveys and collect blood and other specimens from participants across the nation, trying to uncover the environmental, genetic and lifestyle factors that lead to various malignancies.
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Jay Jordane, 54, of Celina was one of more than 13,000 runners and walkers supporting breast cancer research and awareness Saturday at the Susan G. Komen North Texas Race for the Cure in Plano.

The Komen Race for the Cure is the largest series of 5K runs and fitness walks in the world, according to a press release. (more…)

Women with early stage breast cancer revealed by screening are likely to live as long as someone who has never had the disease, figures show.

The NHS Cancer Screening Programme audit confirms detection of the disease in its early stages is vital.

Overall, six out of ten women diagnosed after screening and treated had the same survival rates as the general population.

Experts urged women not to miss screening appointments.
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