According to a recent report, Liberal MP Belinda Stronach, who is combating breast cancer, went to California last June for some of her breast cancer treatment.

Greg MacEachern, Stronach’s representative, told that the former cabinet minister had a later-stage surgical operation in the US after her Toronto physicians referred her.

Baltimore: Dr. Martin D. Abeloff, an authority on the breast cancer treatment and chief oncologist at Johns Hopkins, died on Friday in Baltimore. He was 65 years old.

Mr. Abeloff guided the Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University for the last 15 years.

Vanessa Wasta, a representative for the cancer center said that Abeloff’s death followed a fight with leukemia, a type of cancer.

Wasta added that his leukemia was growing slowly, but his condition got worsened this past spring.

Alan O. Trounson, embryonic stem cell research and invitro fertilization specialist, from Australia, has been nominated as president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), that is at the top of California’s stem cell program worth $3 billion.

Mr. Trounson has a glorious record in research & investigation, management skills and confronting Australia's controversial politics circling embryonic stem cell research.

Trounson is well-known through-out the world for his work in stem cell investigation and human fertilization.

A new research showed that using the birth control pill cut down the overall woman’s risk of developing cancer.

A study at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland analyzed records from a 36-year study, which discovered that any increased risk of breast and cervical cancer related to the use of pill seems to be wiped out by long-term protection from other types of cancers.

The cancer risk was up to 12% lower among those women who had used up the contraceptive pill.

Washington, Sept 16: Researchers at the New England Research Institute have found that one out of four men over 30 have low testosterone levels, but only one out of every 20 men have clinical symptoms linked to such a deficiency.

The study suggests that as men age, they are more likely to experience symptoms such as lack of sex drive and erectile dysfunction as a result of low levels of testosterone.

Colombo: Defense functionaries stated that at least 14 associates of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and five soldiers of the Sri Lankan armed forces were killed in fights in the countr