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Cancer and Thunder: Learning Life's Hard Lessons

Stephanie Gilman | Posted 05.23.2013 | Canada Living
Stephanie Gilman

2013-02-04-kickingcancersass.jpg Sometimes there are no magical answers. Sometimes it's just that life is unfair, and some of us get dealt a really shitty hand, while others may not. I wish there was a better explanation than that, a story you could tell your children when they ask why bad things happen to good people. I wish things could be different.

After The Fact

Andrea Paine | Posted 12.29.2011 | Canada Living
Andrea Paine

Last week, during one of my long commutes home, I called a good friend of mine. She had emailed me a couple of weeks ago and hinted that she may not b...

Childhood Cancer Survivors Can Have Healthy Babies, Study Finds

CBC | Posted 02.12.2012 | Canada Living

Childhood cancer survivors are not at a higher risk of having children with birth defects, suggests a new study. The study of...

CT Scans Produce Differing Radiation Doses, Study Finds

CBC | Posted 01.15.2012 | Canada Living

A Manitoba study has found the amount of radiation patients receive from a CT scan can vary widely and should be reduced to better protec...

Radiation Plus Hormone Therapy Can Extend Life In Aggressive Prostate Cancer

CP | Posted 01.02.2012 | Canada Living

TORONTO - Men with prostate cancer that has spread to local surrounding tissues live longer and are less likely to die of the high-risk disease if tre...

E.coli, and Fear of E.coli -- Both Are Dangerous

David Ropeik | Posted 08.06.2011 | Canada
David Ropeik

The actual danger E. coli poses to vegetable-eating Europeans is low. But then, we don't just use the scientific evidence to figure out what's dangerous -- risk perception is a mix of facts and feelings.