A bad way to pay for some worthy programs
Orange County Register - The money would spent on a grab-bag of health-care special interests: lung cancer and lung-disease research; a tobacco control media campaign; behavioral change programs to “prevent obesity, diabetes and chronic diseases”; improving “the
Howard Drollinger, 84; Developer Helped Build Downtown Westchester
LA Times - businessman who followed in his developer mother’s footsteps and who helped create and expand downtown Westchester, has died. He was 84. Drollinger, who remained a major investor in the area’s business district for almost 60 years, died of lung cancer
NEJM AUDIO SUMMARY
New England Journal of Medicine - Featured are articles on high-dose atorvastatin after stroke or transient ischemic attack, concordance among gene-expression based predictors for breast cancer, a genomic strategy to refine prognosis in early-stage non small-cell lung cancer
What’s Up, Doc? Breast Cancer
10 News - Clearwater, Florida - Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, other than skin cancer and is the second leading cause of cancer death in women, after lung cancer. According to the American Cancer Society:
Timmons presents $10,241
Cape Gazette - Timmons, whose grandfather was recently treated for lung cancer at the Tunnell Cancer Center on Savannah Road in Lewes, raised the money to increase awareness of cancer and the treatment offered by the Beebe Medical Center cancer program. He
Lung screenings offered to Y-12, ORNL workers
Knoxville News Sentinel - OAK RIDGE - Art Hensley was in “perfect health,” and he had family genetics on his side. His father lived until he was 86 years old, and his mother is still around at 97. He saw little need to have a lung-cancer screening being offered to former