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Cancer Prevention
6:25 am
Thu March 29, 2012

Preventing cancer: a conversation with Siteman Cancer Center's Graham Colditz

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An x-ray image of a chest. Both sides of the lungs are visible with a growth on the left side of the lung, which could possibly be lung cancer.
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More than half of cancer cases in the United States could be prevented.

That’s according to a new article published this week in the journal Science Translational Medicine by researchers at the Siteman Cancer Center and Washington University.

St. Louis Public Radio's Véronique LaCapra spoke with lead author Dr. Graham Colditz about what we know about cancer — and why more isn’t being done to prevent it.

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Lawsuit - Asbestos
3:53 pm
Fri March 23, 2012

Granite City, Ill., lawsuit over take-home asbestos exposure to go to trial

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The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the family of Annette Simpkins of Granite City, Ill., returning her case to the Madison County circuit court for a trial.

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Music therapy
6:25 am
Wed March 7, 2012

Instruments of Healing: Fighting cancer with medicine and music

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St. Louis Symphony cellists Anne Fagerburg and Bjorn Ranheim play a music therapy concert at the Saint Louis University Cancer Center on Feb. 27.
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St. Louis Symphony cellists Anne Fagerburg and Bjorn Ranheim play a music therapy concert at the Saint Louis University Cancer Center on Feb. 27.
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At first glance, the Saint Louis University Cancer Center and the St. Louis Symphony seem to have vastly different missions. One seeks to provide the best care possible following an often devastating diagnosis. The other seeks to spread the beauty of music wherever it can.

But a unique collaboration looks to combine those two missions as often as possible in the region's first comprehensive music therapy program – to the benefit of both organizations and the people they serve.

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