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Lydia Cancer Association Radiothon is Today
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.
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Woman Makes Santa’s Naughty List for Falsely Claiming She Had Cancer [VIDEO]
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
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Lydia Cancer Association Home for Hope Radiothon
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.
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Lydia Cancer Association Home for Hope Radiothon
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.
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You Can Brighten Christmas for a Family with Cancer
The Miles Perret Cancer Services Giving Tree is an annual gift giving program that offers help to families during Christmas. The program is offered to children 18 and under who have cancer or have a parent/sibling with cancer.
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Camellia Crossing is Wednesday November 23
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.
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Mom with Cancer Dies to Save Unborn Baby [VIDEO]
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.
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Do High-Power Electrical Lines Worry You?
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:
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Games of Acadiana [VIDEO]
Miles Perret Cancer Services' Games of Acadiana was a huge success on Saturday! Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate, honor and support!
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Study : Doctors Recommend Pap Smear Too Often
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that U.S. doctors are telling their patients to get a Pap Smear more often than the American Cancer Society recommends. ACS guidelines suggest that a woman over 30 wait three
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Lettuce Addiction Saves Woman’s Life
Elsie Campbell woke up one day craving lettuce. She couldn't get enough of it. She began eating up to four heads a day! Her husband, a scientist, began researching her strange appetite and discovered that lettuce contains a nutrient that people with breast cancer often lack. Sure enough, when she sought medical help, she was, in fact, diagnosed with breast cancer.
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How To Keep Cancer Off The BBQ Grill
Father's Day is this Sunday and many in the Lafayette area will be grilling. The experts at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center say that small changes to what – and how – you grill can keep cancer off the menu. Sally Scroggs, health education manager at MD Anderson’s Cancer Prevention Center recommends these tips: