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Sub-Topics Brain Cancer Breast Cancer Cervical Cancer Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis Esophageal Cancer Liver Cancer Lung 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 -04-30-07 Cancer-Fighting Drug Found in Soil (Live Science) "The bark of certain yew trees can yield a medicine that fights cancer. Now scientists find the dirt that yew trees grow in can supply the drug as well, suggesting a new way to commercially harvest the medicine." "Scientists originally isolated the drug paclitaxel—now commonly known as Taxol—in 1967 from the bark of Pacific yew trees (Taxus brevifolia) in a forest near the Mount St. Helens in Washington. This yew also yields related compounds known as taxanes that can be converted to paclitaxel. Research since then has revealed other yew species generate paclitaxel and taxanes as well, as do some fungi and certain hazelnut varieties." 04-07 -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 Caregivers - Cancer Caregivers At Risk For Depression (applesforhealth) Dutch researchers find cancer caregivers giving nonprofessional care at home are at risk for depression. 08-20-99. 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 Surviving - Cancer Survivorship (applesforhealth) Cancer, once considered incurable, is no longer a certain death sentence. Since the 1971 National Cancer Act, much of the research into early cancer detection and treatment has paid off. Mortality rates for most major cancers are declining, and today more people survive cancer than ever before. In fact, 8.4 million Americans - nearly one in 30 - are living with a history of cancer. 09-10-99. Teens - Cancer Toughens Survivors (applesforhealth) Young men and women who survive cancer during their teen years appear to develop stronger self-concept than their peers who didn't go through the trauma of fighting a deadly disease. 09-17-99.

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