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Tomorrow (July 31st), 99.9 KTDY and Lydia Cancer Association will take to the airwaves once again to help raise money and sell tickets for the first ever 'Home for Hope' raffle to benefit Lydia Cancer Association.

On July 31st, 99.9 KTDY and Lydia Cancer Association will take to the airwaves to help raise money and sell tickets for the first ever 'Home for Hope' raffle to benefit Lydia Cancer Association.

Want to avoid skin cancer? Have another cup of joe. A new study finds coffee guzzlers are less likely to develop the most common type of the disease.

For decades, Americans have desired to have tanned skin, in spite of the revelation that exposure to the sun has been shown to be the leading cause of skin cancer. A recent survey by the American Academy Of Dermatology shows tanned skin is still widely regarded as the most attractive.  What to do?

Sheryl Crow has tended to laugh off the onstage moments where she forgets lyrics, but it turns out her memory lapses were a sign of a serious medical issue. “I worried about my memory so much that I went and got an MRI,” she told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “And I found out I have a brain tumor. And I was, like, ‘See? I knew there was something wrong.’”

A study published this week revealed a sobering statistic: if worldwide population growth continues at its current pace, the number of cancer cases could rise 75% in the next two decades.

A quick search of the web for "sun skin cancer" leads right to the Web MD site, which explains how the sun damages your skin and how it causes cancer. The Mayo Clinic recommends to not use sunscreen that is past it's expiration date or older than 3 years.

Want to give Mom something unique for Mother's Day this year? Get her a nice card and put a $50 raffle ticket for the 'Home for Hope' in it! The Lydia Cancer Association is offering you the chance to win a new home, valued at over $300,000.

This is a commercial that airs on Australian television that tries to encourage people to quit smoking.   When I watched it, I felt that it could apply to any of the habits that we have that could lead to a shorter life with the ones we love.

Not many of us escaped lottery fever last week as the Mega Millions jackpot skyrocketed to about $640 million. Everyone wanted to get in on the action and we know one firefighter who is very happy his fellow firefighters decided to try their luck.

Taylor Swift couldn’t make it to 18-year-old Kevin McGuire’s prom, but instead invited him to be her date to the Academy of Country Music Awards. His reaction? Near speechlessness.

Taylor Swift sadly cannot make Kevin McGuire’s prom in New Jersey. However, the singer has instead asked the cancer-stricken teen, whose sister started a Facebook campaign to get Swift to accompany him to prom, to be her date to the upcoming 2012 ACM Awards. What a class act Taylor Swift is. No wonder she inspires such fiercely loyal dedication among her fans.

For the last 10 years Cajundome management has raised money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Acadiana. This year they've borrowed a great idea from Boston. The Cajundome will auction off the name of the facility on EBAY for Mardi Gras weekend.

The Lydia Cancer Association is celebrating 10 years of service to Vermilion, Iberia, St. Martin and St. Mary cancer patients. Today's radiothon is your chance to help support their mission.

If anyone is going to get a lumps of coal in his or her stocking this year, it’s Martha Nicholas. The Virginian woman was arrested Wednesday for bilking kind-hearted people out of money by falsely claiming she had cancer. Nicholas, 42, duped even her husband and children along the way, claimed she was a four-time cancer patient and participated in multiple cancer fundraisers

In just a week, 99.9 KTDY and Lydia Cancer Association will take to the airwaves on December 15th to help raise money and sell tickets for the first ever 'Home for Hope' raffle to benefit Lydia Cancer Association.

99.9 KTDY and Lydia Cancer Association will take to the airwaves on December 15th to help raise money and sell tickets for the first ever 'Home for Hope' raffle to benefit Lydia Cancer Association.

Volunteers and staff are busy today preparing for the Camellia Crossing to benefit Miles Perret Cancer Services. Packet and T-shirt pickup is underway in the lobby of the their offices at 2130 Kaliste Saloom Rd. Reminder: Camellia Blvd. will be closed beginning at 5:50 PM, until the end of the race.

A selfless mother has died to save her unborn baby. The woman was diagnosed with a life-threatening form of cancer and refused chemotherapy so that her child could be born, even though it meant she would die.

Here's the scene:  you are driving home from work, and, just a few hundred yards from your driveway, you notice a construction crew clearing a field.  "A new subdivision must be coming up" you think to yourself as you take the kids and the groceries from the car. Then, weeks later, you see this: