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	<title>PSA Rising Prostate Cancer Blog &#187; Cancer</title>
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		<title>A Mural for a Cancer Patient Tells a Story of Broken Healthcare</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jacquie strax</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regina Holliday has painted a mural on the side of a gas station in Washington DC to tell the story of a day in her husband Fred&#8217;s struggle with broken healthcare. At ge 39, Fred was diagnosed with stage IV kidney cancer.

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		<title>Obama Orders Medical Marijuana Use Allowed Where State Law Makes it Legal</title>
		<link>http://www.psa-rising.com/blog/2009/10/feds-halt-medical-marijuana-prosectutions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.psa-rising.com/blog/2009/10/feds-halt-medical-marijuana-prosectutions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jacquie strax</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration has changed Federal policies on regulation of medical marijuana use under state law. During his presidential race last year, Barack Obama said that he intended to halt raids of medical marijuana facilities operating legally under state laws. Today, new Justice Department guidelines brought this change about.
The new guidelines order federal drug agents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gavin Rodden, age 8, fights a rare childhood cancer that began in his prostate</title>
		<link>http://www.psa-rising.com/blog/2009/10/gavin-rodden-appeal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jacquie strax</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gavin Rodden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lung]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prostate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rhabdomyosarcoma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Eight-year-old Gavin Rodden was diagnosed recently with a rare childhood cancer, which began in his prostate. 
Rhabdomyosarcoma (Rhab-do-my-o-sarcoma) is an aggressive form of cancer that starts in a muscle cell and may spread quite rapidly. In Gavin&#8217;s case the cancer has already spread from the prostate to his lungs. Possible treatments include surgery, radiation therapy, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Genetic Variants Linked with Risk of Prostate Cancer</title>
		<link>http://www.psa-rising.com/blog/2009/09/researchers-link-multiple-new-snps-with-risk-of-prostate-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jacquie strax</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cancer research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prostate Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chromosome 8q24]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have identified seven new genetic variants that appear to be linked with increase risk of prostate cancer. Among these are four new &#8220;single-letter&#8221; genetic variants on one particular chromosome, called 8q24.   
This chromosomal region has previously been associated with breast, colon, and bladder cancer.  The discoveries identifying the four new genetic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sick for Profit Says Insurance Companies Get Rich By Denying Care</title>
		<link>http://www.psa-rising.com/blog/2009/09/sick-for-profit-says-insurance-companies-get-rich-by-denying-care/</link>
		<comments>http://www.psa-rising.com/blog/2009/09/sick-for-profit-says-insurance-companies-get-rich-by-denying-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jacquie strax</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Brave New Films&#8217; video Sick for Profit opens with a clip of a woman, Jo Joshua Godfrey, who says Cigna cut off her coverage by telling her she had nothing wrong with her, when they knew &#8212; as she did not &#8212; that her scans showed she had lung cancer. 
I would go to CIGNA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Urologists to Huddle With Drug Companies in Montreal Canada Meeting</title>
		<link>http://www.psa-rising.com/blog/2009/09/urologists-huddle-with-drug-companies-in-montreal-canada-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.psa-rising.com/blog/2009/09/urologists-huddle-with-drug-companies-in-montreal-canada-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jacquie strax</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cancer research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prostate Cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[the 4th C2 Academic Retreat (C2R) being organized jointly by the Canadian Urologic Oncology Group (CUOG) and the Canadian Urology Research Consortium (CURC) is scheduled for the weekend of September 25 to 27, 2009 at the fashionable hotel called W in Montreal. 
According to UroToday, &#8220;this three-day educational event will include provocative &#8216;Town Hall&#8217; sessions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain Removal Coal and Toxic Water Supplies</title>
		<link>http://www.psa-rising.com/blog/2009/09/mountaintop-removal-coal-and-toxic-water-supplies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.psa-rising.com/blog/2009/09/mountaintop-removal-coal-and-toxic-water-supplies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jacquie strax</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Appalachia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[heavy metals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mountaintop removal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sago mine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[toxic water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The EPA should not permit mining operations based on regulatory loopholes and lax enforcement practices that have allowed mountain waterways to be treated as waste dumps.  The people in Appalachia, like all Americans, have a right to clean streams, rivers, and drinking water &#8212; and it&#8217;s up to the EPA to look out for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diesel Exhaust Linked to Cancer Development Via New Blood Vessel Growth</title>
		<link>http://www.psa-rising.com/blog/2009/09/diesel-exhaust-linked-to-cancer-development-via-new-blood-vessel-growth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.psa-rising.com/blog/2009/09/diesel-exhaust-linked-to-cancer-development-via-new-blood-vessel-growth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jacquie strax</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prevention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diesel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pollution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ohio scientists have demonstrated that diesel exhaust induces the growth of new blood vessels that send blood to supply to solid tumors. This is the first evidence of how exposure to diesel fumes can cause cancer.
The researchers found that more new blood vessels sprouted in mice exposed to diesel exhaust than did in mice exposed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two ZD4054 clinical trials for hormone refractory prostate cancer</title>
		<link>http://www.psa-rising.com/blog/2009/08/zd4054-trials-for-prostate-cancer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.psa-rising.com/blog/2009/08/zd4054-trials-for-prostate-cancer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jacquie strax</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prostate Cancer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ZD4054 is a potential anti-cancer agent now in a clinical trials around the world for men with metastatic hormone refractory prostate cancer (HRPC) and for men with non-metastatic hormone refractory prostate cancer.
The trials are run by pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, which makes ZD4054. These two distinct trials differ significantly in the level of therapy offered to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An anti-inflammatory herbal extract suppresses prostate tumors in mice</title>
		<link>http://www.psa-rising.com/blog/2009/08/wedelia-shrinks-prostate-tumors-in-mice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.psa-rising.com/blog/2009/08/wedelia-shrinks-prostate-tumors-in-mice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jacquie strax</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cancer research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prevention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prostate Cancer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A study published in Clinical Cancer Research August 18 2009 reports that an extract of the Chinese herb Wedelia (a member of the Asteraceae, or sunflower family of plants) shrinks the androgen receptor and prostate cancer in male mice. 
&#8220;Wedelia chinensis,&#8221; the authors write, &#8220;is a common ingredient of anti-inflammatory herbal medicines in Taiwan and [...]]]></description>
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