CANCER
End of the Line 1: Lance’s Confession: The Question of Significance in Role Models
END OF THE LINE: This is the first of many to come as the Flensburg Files opens a new category called End of the Line. All Change Please, which focuses on the downfall of celebrities and the end of ...
Posted on 1/18/13 at 5:53 AM
Every 1,825 Days...Give or Take a Few...
I dressed with care: elastic waistband (for fast removal), cute underwear (I knew Id be seeing a lot of them, so might as well enjoy it), my long hair up and out of the way (not that my hair would be ...
Posted on 11/27/12 at 8:56 AM
A cancer hero, fallen from grace
Two days after the news of Lance Armstrong's fall from grace, I'm still not sure what my reaction should be. Disappointment? Disgust? Outrage? Probably all three. Not because he cheated his way to t...
Posted on 10/19/12 at 11:19 AM
Give Lance Armstrong a break
I'm going to get on my soapbox for a moment and tell you exactly what I think. I think what's happening to Lance Armstrong is a shame. And flat-out wrong. Armstrong was one of the most decorated cyc...
Posted on 10/17/12 at 10:04 AM
Legislative notebook: Leaders join cancer study
By Don Davis and Danielle Nordine Lt. Gov. Yvonne Prettner Solon knows more about cancer than many Minnesotans after twice surviving breast cancer and dealing with her husbands cancer death. We wa...
Posted on 3/14/12 at 10:46 PM
A battle with cancer
June 01, 2011
Kindness of family and neighbors helps local man cope with cancer
April 07, 2011
To Be Well Blog: Lung Cancer Deaths Among Women Fall for First Time
The number of deaths among women due to lung cancer has dropped about 1% per year from 2003 to 2007, according to a report by the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society.April 04, 2011
Local woman fights cancer one laugh at a time
WIROCK — Pat Swenson has cancer, but is more eager to discuss the handsome helicopter pilot who flew her to a Sioux Falls, S.D. hospital than to talk about the details of her disease.
March 17, 2011
Program focuses on colon cancer
WORTHINGTON — In observation of March as National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, the Sanford Apple a Day program will focus on that form of cancer.March 16, 2011
Digital mammography reaches Worthington
WORTHINGTON — “Lift your chin a bit — now turn your head toward me a little more. That’s it. That looks great.” The radiologic technician is directive but reassuring as she positions her patient, a woman in her mid-40s, for her annual mammogram.
By Jane Turpin Moore , January 30, 2011
‘Project Pink’ cake auction raises $14,000
DETROIT LAKES - There they all were: Thirty-one cakes brightly decorated with pink-hued cityscapes, octopi and sea monsters made of frosting, baseballs and football fields, mountains and race cars… and, of course, bras, festooned with such memorable slogans as “Save the Tatas!”October 18, 2010
Foundation 'flows' to southwest Minnesota
WORTHINGTON — To match the brand-new, quietly flowing stream in her yard, there was a moment of quiet for Janet Rachuy as her ‘River of Hope’ was revealed.
October 15, 2010
County’s Relay For Life raises $87K
WORTHINGTON — With the luminaries extinguished and the sun dawning on a new day, Nobles County Relay For Life chairwoman Kim Lambert announced Saturday morning nearly $87,000 had been raised to support the American Cancer Society and its efforts to find cures.
By Julie Buntjer , June 20, 2010
Overcoming all odds
WORTHINGTON — Everyone has a story. This, Sharon Kelly knows.
By Julie Buntjer , June 14, 2010
Brief: Colorectal cancer program offered
WORTHINGTON — The Sanford Regional Hospital Worthington Auxiliary program for March will be “Colorectal Cancer Awareness” with presenter Dr. Connie Morrison, a surgeon at Avera Worthington Speciality Clinics.March 02, 2010
FDA debates tougher cancer warning on tanning beds
WASHINGTON — Just as millions head to tanning beds to prepare for spring break, the Food and Drug Administration will be debating how to toughen warnings that those sunlamps pose a cancer risk.By Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press , January 20, 2010
Students support classmate who survived cancer
October 08, 2009
Program helps women with cancer look, feel better
WORTHINGTON — When a woman is diagnosed with cancer, one of the early questions weighing on her mind is the impact required chemotherapy or radiation treatments will have on her body.
By Julie Buntjer , July 18, 2009
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