►January 22, 2004 - Do cancer patients in clinical trials have better outcomes than non-participants? - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute via www.eurekalert.org

►January 21, 2004 - Scientists identify cell defects that limit immune system's impact on late-stage tumors - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center via  www.eurekalert.org 

►January 25, 2004 - Sunny D - It's the great cancer cover-up. Panicked into avoiding sunlight by health experts, we are now dying in our thousands from diseases linked to deficiencies of vitamin D. But still the exaggerated warnings come. Oliver Gillie reveals how sunbathing can save your life - The Independent, UK

►January 24, 2004 - Study Links Some Hair Dyes to Kind of Cancer (requires registration or subscription) - The New York Times - "Scientists have found more evidence for a possible link between non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and long-term use of dark hair dye. A study of more than 1,300 women in Connecticut shows that those who began coloring their hair before 1980 increased their chance of developing the disease by 40 percent."

Comment:  Apparently the "experts" consider it far better to allow the increase to continue unabated than to consider that the sacred cow of vaccination might play some role in this.  For one perspective on the role just one vaccine contaminant, SV40, may play in cancer, go to Scandals: The Institute of Medicine Review Of SV40 Contamination of Polio Vaccine and Cancer

►January 23, 2004 - Hair dye may raise cancer risk, U.S. study shows - Reuters

►January 19, 2004 - Skin cancer treatments debated -  A non-surgical treatment for basal cell skin cancer results in better cosmetic results but might be less effective than surgery at preventing the disease from returning, a study found. - AP via CNN

►January 20, 2004 - Viruses that kill cancer - The Boston Globe - "The first clue that viruses could fight cancer came around the turn of the last century, when a woman with cervical cancer was bitten by a dog. She was injected with live, crippled rabies virus; her cancer shrank."

►January 26, 2004 - Web sites can give patients info they need for decisions - Credible Internet resources were found to be helpful for patients needing to make informed choices on cancer screening. - www.ama-assn.org

►January 12, 2004 - Low-Tar Cigarettes Dangerous - BMJ via Ivanhoe - "A new study shows the risk for lung cancer is the same for people who smoke medium-tar cigarettes, low-tar cigarettes, or very-low-tar cigarettes."

►December 8, 2003 - A Step Past Chemotherapy - Cancer: The five-year survival rate for all cancers is 62 percent. Specially-targeted drugs hone in on cancer cells, leaving healthy cells untouched - Newsweek via MSNBC