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Pigeons Can Spot Cancer

A surrogate for observers of medical images may have been found by researchers from the University of California, Davis: pigeons.

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Frat Boys Serenade Little Girl Fighting Cancer

The members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at the University of California Los Angeles showed they were more mature than the college stereotype, entertaining a 12-year-old girl battling cancer in the hospital across from their frat house, according to CBS Los Angeles and Facebook.

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WHO: Questionable Science And Conflicts Of Interest‏

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently added Britain’s breakfast favourites such as bacon, sausages and other red meat to the list of the ‘encyclopaedia of carcinogens’. All processed red meat is to join the premier league of cancer causing agents such as smoking,

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Pacific Palisades Gun Hoarder Said Cancer Was CIA Injury

The L.A. Coroner has revealed that the mystery man who left behind “1,200 guns and tons of ammunition” in a Pacific Palisades condo was 60-year-old Jeffrey Alan Lash–a man who told the women in his life that he was suffering from “nerve gas poisoning from his time in the CIA” when he was actually suffering from cancer.

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Jimmy Carter Reveals He Has Cancer

Former President Jimmy Carter revealed that a recent liver surgery found cancer has spread in his body but gave few details about his prognosis in a brief statement released Wednesday.

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Return of the ‘Cell Phones Cause Cancer’ Scare

Cell phones have become so popular that only the most dire medical findings would be likely to significantly reduce their use, but the financial and legal fallout from product liability lawsuits could deliver a major blow to the industry, with one likely result being a significant increase in the cost of cell phones, from both redesigns meant to minimize potentially harmful radiation, and the cost of major lawsuits. Who knows what other sorts of nanny interventions we could face down the line? Phones treated like packs of cigarettes, slathered with warning labels? Mandatory warning messages piped into the ears of users when they’ve been on the phone too long?