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<title><![CDATA[The dreaded question: Did he smoke?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ 
Courtesy of Elisabeth Egan
The author and her dad, Jack, at her wedding in 1999.
I&#039;m sitting between two of my friends on a bench at the neighborhood playground when one mentions her aunt recently died of lung cancer. I know what&#039;s coming next, as surely as I know my kids will boomerang back toward me from the monkey bars, begging for money, when they hear the jingle of the ice cream truck.
As if on cue, the other friend asks, &quot;Did your aunt smoke?&quot;
I don&#039;t stick around for the answer. The ice...]]></description>
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<pubDate>2008-08-06 10:15:18</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New approach would use tobacco to fight cancer]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A personalized vaccine made using tobacco plants — normally associated with causing cancer rather than helping cure it — could aid people with lymphoma in fighting the disease, U.S. researchers said on Monday. 
The treatment, which would vaccinate cancer patients against their own tumor cells, is made using a new approach that turns genetically engineered tobacco plants into personalized vaccine factories. 
“This is the first time a plant has been used for making a protein to inject into a pe...]]></description>
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<pubDate>2008-08-06 10:13:48</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Prostate cancer therapy tied to cognitive decline]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Up to 69 percent of men who receive hormone deprivation therapy for prostate cancer will experience some degree of cognitive impairment, such as in the ability to concentrate, a review of published data suggests. 
Men with recurrent or advanced prostate cancer may be put on hormone therapy to block testosterone production in an effort to halt or slow the growth of the tumor. 
“There is a strong argument” that hormone deprivation therapy — also known as androgen deprivation therapy or ADT — i...]]></description>
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<pubDate>2008-08-06 10:12:04</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Prostate cancer drugs no help for some elderly]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A prostate cancer study that could change practice found that widely used hormone-blocking drugs did not improve survival chances for older men whose disease hadn&#039;t spread.
In fact, men given the drugs alone were slightly more likely to die of prostate cancer during the next six years than men who&#039;d gotten medical monitoring but no or delayed treatment, another common treatment approach.
The study involved nearly 20,000 Medicare patients with prostate cancer that hadn&#039;t spread. A surprising 41 p...]]></description>
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<pubDate>2008-07-12 16:27:39</pubDate>
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