Sub-Topics Brain Cancer Breast Cancer Cervical Cancer Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis Esophageal Cancer Liver Cancer Lung Cancer Ovarian Cancer Pancreatic Cancer Prevention Prostate Cancer Skin Cancer Testing Treatment Lists Cancer Resources (Net Ventures - Brown) Cancer News on the Net provides sources of information, mostly by type of cancer. News -07-01-07 Eggs Saved for Future Fertility in Child Cancer Cases (BBC News) "Israeli scientists say that they have extracted and matured eggs from girls as young as five to freeze for possible fertility treatment in the future." 06-07 -08-21-06 AIDS Mystery Solved (CBS News) "The cells are turned off by HIV, which disarms them by flicking off a molecular switch in the cells. But in the laboratory, researchers were able to block that switch and restore T-cell function." "The findings raise the possibility that one day, doctors could switch a chronically ill patient's immune system back 'on' so that it could resume its fight against HIV, cancer or even Hepatitis C." 08-06 Cancer Research News (Nature) Provides results from the latest research on cancer. 9-01 Papers Basic Facts About Cancer Cancer Defined (Wikipedia.org) "Cancer is a group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled cell division leading to growth of abnormal tissue. It is believed that cancers arise from both genetic and environmental factors that lead to aberrant growth regulation of a stem cell population, or by the dedifferentiation of more mature cell types." 2-05 Helping Children With Dying: Floating Away (New York Times) A review of the children's book, Floating Away, by Chris Raschka. "[Michael] Rosen turns his grief into a two-way window. Children see his sadness and somehow, miraculously, it feels as if Rosen also sees theirs." "If [Chris] Raschka’s writing doesn’t have this kind of transformative power, his illustrations often do. They tell the story of a balloon whose strings are intertwined with many others, and who then finds his string tragically, inexorably disentangling. The text does not tell this true, hard story — but the pictures, fortunately, do." 05-07 Lance Armstrong Biography (Biography.com) Provides a biography of the champion cyclist through the year 2000. Armstrong, who has had cancer, won the Tour de France in July of 2001. 7-01 Lance Armstrong Biography (Biography.com) Provides a biography of the champion cyclist through the year 2000. Armstrong, who has had cancer, won the Tour de France in July of 2001. 7-01 Research Milestones in Cancer - 2000 to Present (American Cancer Society) Provides a short description of the key milestones in cancer research from 2000 to the present. 1-04

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