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Reuters - Eli Lilly and Co’s chemotherapy drug
Gemzar more than doubled the overall survival for early stage
pancreatic cancer patients five years after surgery to remove
their tumors, according to results from a long-term study
released on Saturday.

Reuters - Lung cancer patients treated in a large
clinical trial with ImClone Systems Inc’s Erbitux and
chemotherapy lived about five weeks longer than patients
treated with chemotherapy alone, according to study results
released on Saturday.

Reuters - Acupuncture helped alleviate lingering
pain and decreased shoulder mobility in people who had surgery
for head and neck cancer, U.S. researchers said on Saturday.

Reuters - The narcolepsy drug Provigil can
alleviate severe cancer-related fatigue, according to new
research presented on Saturday at a meeting of the American
Society for Clinical Oncology.

AFP - A treatment against osteoporosis that uses the biophosphate Zometa has shown to reduce the risk of early breast cancer in pre-menopausal women by 35 percent, a study presented here showed.

HealthDay - SATURDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) — People who survived Hodgkin
lymphoma as children have an increased risk of developing and dying from
another cancer or cardiovascular disease as adults, according to a new
report.

AP - Adding the novel cancer drug Erbitux to standard chemotherapy helped advanced lung cancer patients live just a month longer than chemo alone, a study found.

Reuters - The addition of Genentech Inc’s cancer
drug Avastin to chemotherapy slows the progress of breast
cancer, according to results of a large international trial
released on Saturday.

AP - A drug to prevent bone loss during breast cancer treatment also substantially cut the risk that the cancer would return, results that left doctors excited about a possible new way to fight the disease.

HealthDay - SATURDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) — Chemotherapy may reduce
fertility in breast cancer survivors, according to a study led by
researchers at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

AFP - Consistent reductions in US federal budget allocations for cancer research that have been implemented since 2003 threaten to undermine recent gains in the fight against the disease, scientists said.

AP - Noted neurologist Oliver Sacks has found common ground with the pastor of Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church: Both men believe in the healing power of music.

AP - A Japanese gang boss and another alleged gangster who had liver transplants at UCLA Medical Center each donated $100,000 to the hospital soon after their surgeries, according to a published report.

AP - A Los Angeles hospital provided liver transplants to four Japanese gang figures, including one of Japan’s most powerful gang bosses, over a period when several hundred area patients died while awaiting transplants, according to a published report.

AP - Old-fashioned asthma inhalers that contain environment-harming chemicals will no longer be sold at year’s end — and the government is urging patients not to wait until the last minute to switch to newer alternatives.