Tag Archives: cancer

Mustaches Make A Difference

Movember is the global cancer awareness campaign in which participants grow mustaches to draw attention to men’s cancers. Copyranter tips us to the above image being used in Singapore’s prostate cancer campaign. Hit the link for more images of the famously mustachioed and what they’d look like clean-shaven.

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of her publicists, today we have five copies of Olivia Newton-John’s new album, Grace and Gratitude Renewed, a contemplation on life as a breast cancer survivor, which goes on sale today in North America. Named for Olivia’s appreciation of the gift of life, Grace and Gratitude contains over 20 tracks intended for relaxation and healing. As an eighteen-year breast …

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GQ On Cell Phones & Brain Cancer

GQ has published an extensive article investigating the possible link between cell phone use and brain cancer, an issue under heavy study in Europe, but not so much in the U.S., where some have claimed such research has been blocked by the phone industry. The article was written with “research support provided by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute,” …

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‘Til Death Do You Part (Or Not)

A new study by a Seattle oncologist shows that when married men get a cancer diagnosis, 3% of the their wives leave them during the course of treatment. But when women get cancer, 21% of their husbands leave them. That’s seven times as many. When the man became ill, only 3 percent experienced the end of a marriage. But among …

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Patrick Swayze Dead Of Pancreatic Cancer

Actor Patrick Swayze died at age 57 today after a two year battle with pancreatic cancer. His publicist, Annett Wolf, told The Associated Press in Los Angeles that Mr. Swayze died with family at his side. Mr. Swayze’s cancer was diagnosed in January 2008. Six months after that, he had already outlived his prognosis and was filmed at an airport, …

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Cell Phones and Brain Tumors

The long running controversy over whether cell phones cause brain tumors has been ratcheted up by a group of scientists who point to significant flaws in a recent study funded by…hello…cell phone providers. This report, sent to government leaders and media today, details eleven design flaws of the 13-country, Telecom-funded Interphone study. The Interphone study, begun in 1999, was intended …

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Sen. Ted Kennedy Dead At 77

Ted Kennedy, friend and hero to LGBT folks, people with HIV/AIDS, minorities, the disabled, liberals, and progressives over his decades in the U.S. Senate, succumbed to brain cancer late Tuesday night at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. This is a tremendous loss for the nation, losing what many Americans, including myself, consider to have been the greatest elected official …

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Ted Kennedy Wants His Replacement Chosen Quickly

Sen. Ted Kennedy is worried that he will die or be too ill to vote on health care fall this fall and has asked the Massachusetts legislature to speed up the process for replacing him. Kennedy’s request comes in the midst of the heated national debate over health care, which has been the senior senator’s focus in Congress for decades. …

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Survey Request From The National LGBT Cancer Network

The National LGBT Cancer Network would like your help. The National LGBT Cancer Network wants to do something about the increasing prevalence of anal cancer in our community. First, we need to find out what people know about anal cancer. We are asking gay and bisexual men to complete a brief (5-minute) anonymous online survey to assess their knowledge of …

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Woman With Cancer Asks Obama For Help

Watch this one, please.

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Farrah Fawcett Dies At Age 62

Television icon Farrah Fawcett died this morning at age 62 after a three year battle with anal cancer. Fawcett first stepped into the spotlight playing Jill Munroe in the TV series “Charlie’s Angels” in the 1970s. The series became a smash hit and Fawcett quickly became an iconic pin-up model for millions of men. She pioneered a feathered hairstyle dubbed …

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Filed Under: Bad Ideas

If you think an unstaffed coin-operated tanning salon is a bad idea, you’d be right.

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Terminally Ill UK Reality Show Contestant Wants To Die On Camera

Jade Goody, a former contestant on UK reality show Big Brother, is terminally ill with cervical cancer and is taking bids for the rights to televise her death. Her story has become daily tabloid fodder. Goody told the News of the World: “”I’ve lived in front of the cameras. And maybe I’ll die in front of them. And I know …

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