Moonlight and Magnolias Gala - sponsored by the American Cancer Society of Greenville

Moonlight and Magnolias Gala - Saturday, May 9th - Downtown Greenville

Your support of the American Cancer Society’s mission of health awareness, research, education, advocacy and service is vitally important. At the Moonlight & Magnolias Gala, we honor and celebrate cancer survivors who benefit from your generosity in beating this dreaded disease. These survivors inspire us with their courage, strength, and zest for life.

Visit with these marvelous individuals and hear their inspiring stories in the “Voices and Faces” section on their website: http://www.moonlightandmagnolias.com/index.php

South Carolina Cancer Alliance meeting - Friday, April 24th in Columbia

Register TODAY for the next meeting of the SC Cancer Alliance to be held Friday, April 24, 2009 at the Columbia Conference Center located at 169 Laurelhurst Avenue, Columbia, SC. The meeting will begin at 9:30 AM with task force meetings.

We have a great agenda lined up for you for this meeting, including:

“NCI Designation & What it Means for South Carolina” Carolyn E. Reed, MD MUSC Hollings Cancer Center

“Clinical Trials Matching Service” Simbonika Spencer, MPH of the American Cancer Society

“SCCA Legislative Update” Ted Riley, Esq., SCCA Lobbyist, Riley, Pope & Laney, LLC

You won’t want to miss this great meeting. Register online at www.sccanceralliance.org. Please submit any questions to Laura Stuckey at laura.stuckey@sccanceralliance.org


The mission South Carolina Cancer Alliance is to reduce the impact of cancer on ALL people in South Carolina. The SCCA is a 501(c)3 organization. To donate, go to www.sccanceralliance.org.

News from Winston-Salem: Local Radio DJ Remains Upbeat About Battle With Cancer

A beloved local radio DJ gave his first media interview on Friday about his recent battle with lung cancer.

Bill Dobson, who goes by "Brother Bill" on his afternoon radio show at WTQR-FM, in Greensboro, announced several weeks ago that he was undergoing surgery to treat the disease.

Dobson said he had been experiencing pain for a year and a half but struggled to get a conclusive diagnosis.

"Everybody thought it was everything from arthritis to you name it," Dobson said in an interview on WTQR Friday morning.

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The New York Times: New Yorkers Often Exposed to Cigarette Smoke, Study Finds

More than half of all nonsmokers in New York City have elevated levels of a nicotine byproduct in their blood indicating recent exposure to cigarette smoke, a city health department study has found. The figure is surprisingly high given the city’s stringent public smoking ban, among the toughest in the country.

Some 56.7 percent of nonsmokers living in the city were found to have elevated levels of the nicotine metabolite cotinine, compared with an average 44.9 percent of nonsmokers nationwide. Among the ethnic groups studied, nonsmokers of Asian descent were most often affected, with 68.7 percent of those examined showing elevated blood levels of cotinine.

The long-term health consequences of the finding are not known, but secondhand smoke is estimated to account for at least 35,000 deaths from heart disease and 3,000 deaths from lung cancer in nonsmokers nationwide each year.

Researchers with the health department said they were unsettled by the finding, which they called “puzzling.”

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The New York Times: Constantine Papadakis, Drexel University President, Dies at 63

Constantine N. Papadakis, the president of Drexel University, died on Sunday, three days after taking medical leave. He was 63.

The cause was pulmonary complications of lung cancer, which was in remission, a statement from Drexel said. Dr. Papadakis raised the endowment, enrollment and profile of Drexel, a onetime commuter school.

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