Lung cancer - IN MEMORY

IN MEMORY
San Jose Mercury News - Thanks to the epic 1996 Ken Burns documentary ``Baseball'' and the resulting attention paid to Buck O'Neil, the Negro leagues and their unheralded players experienced a renaissance in the public eye. But there may not have been anything to revive if

Doctors Want to Find Spreading Cancer
San Francisco Gate - No one ever checked whether Leslie Bather's breast cancer was spreading to her brain, until the day tumors caused three frightening seizures. MRI scans can help spot when cancer in another part of the body sends seedlings into the brain, but few

'Doctor dogs' diagnose cancer
Bergen Record - SAN ANSELMO, Calif. -- In Africa, giant rats have been trained to sniff out tuberculosis in humans and land mines in fields. In England, dogs have identified bladder cancer. In Georgia, wasps have detected bombs. So perhaps it should come as no

Obituaries in the News
WINK TV - NEW YORK (AP) _ Abraham Lopes Cardozo, a synagogue singer recognized for his efforts to preserve the music of Spanish and Portuguese Jews, died Tuesday. He was 91. Cardozo died at a Manhattan hospital, son-in-law Sid Tenenbaum said. From 1946 until

Top National News Right Now
Fox 19 - Three journalists among dozens of victims found dead in Iraq SAMARRA, Iraq (AP) _ Three Iraqi journalists have been found shot dead near the Iraqi city of Samarra. They were there to cover yesterday's bomb attack on a revered Shiite shrine. One of

Block renamed for Peter Jennings
Newsday - A block near the headquarters of ABC News has been renamed Peter Jennings Way, honoring the beloved broadcaster who died of lung cancer last August. The portion of 66th Street between Columbus Avenue and Central Park was renamed Tuesday after the

Off-Duty Officer Shoots, Kills Man Near School
WTOP Radio - ANNANDALE, Va. (AP) - President George Bush talked about taxes and entrepreneurship at a campaign stop today in northern Virginia. The president held a town hall-style forum with about 600 supporters at Northern Virginia Community College in

Don t say no to screening
Enid News & Eagle - As a colon cancer survivor, Martin tells nearly everyone he knows about the importance of screening. He fears most of them do not really listen. Colorectal cancer is deadly. It kills more Americans than any other cancer except lung cancer; but when

'Babylon 5' star Andreas Katsulas, 59, dies
San Bernardino County Sun - LOS ANGELES - Veteran character actor Andreas Katsulas, immortalized as imposing red-eyed alien ambassador G'Kar on television's "Babylon 5" and a one-armed murderer in the 1993 film "The Fugitive," has died of lung cancer. He was 59. Katsulas, who