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Entries Tagged as 'Cancer'

Childhood Cancer Survivorship Act Approved!!

May 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Children’s Cause for Cancer Advocacy Voices Support
Silver Spring, MD — On April 17, 2008, the Childhood Cancer Survivorship Act was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY). This bill, officially titled the Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer Survivorship Research and Quality of Life Act, would improve and expand the delivery of [...]

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Tags: Cancer

Smoking, Film and Kids

March 10th, 2009 · No Comments

(1) U.S. National Cancer Institute (2008). Monograph 19: www.cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/monographs/19/index.html. (2) Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control (2007).
www.socialclimate.org/pdf/smoking-attitudes-movies.pdf. Learn more at www.smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu | UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research & Education
The national cancer institute1 concluded:
Having confirmed movies’ causal role in recruiting
||a new generation of smokers, our nation can score a
major victory against tobacco and protect countless [...]

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Tags: Cancer · Drugs

Integrative Oncology Practice Guidelines

February 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The first practice guidelines on complimentary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies for cancer patients from the Society of Integrative Oncology (SIO). Integrative Oncology Practice Guidelines are available for free online! http://www.integrativeonc.org/documents/JCI_2007_002.pdf

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Tags: CAM · Cancer · EBM · EBP · Free Online Resources · Guidelines