Paul McGee of American Cancer Society has pointed me to a report from The Washington Post, entitled: The Less the Education, The Higher Risk of Dying Cancer.

Quite catchy eh? I totally agree. From the said report, it says: “The difference in death rates between highly educated and poorly educated people in the United States is very wide and growing wider”.

For Americans with less than a high school education, the risk of dying prematurely is on the increase — rising most quickly for white women in that category. In contrast, the risk of premature death among college graduates is falling — fastest of all for black men.

White high school dropouts are four times as likely to die young as white college graduates, up from a threefold difference in the early 1990s. Among blacks, the trend is similar but less dramatic.

As a side story to this report, lemme just tell you a story the other night, while my mother and I were watching the Philippine news with an update on how the Former Pres. Cory Aquino is faring well with her treatments since she was recently diagnosed with colon cancer. (I wanted to say this particular sentence for the tons of well-wishers to Cory that this blog got.)

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Wow, it’s Monday again!? Yeah it is. Another manic Monday…

I hope you guys had a great weekend. I hope you are recharged, rested and was able to unwind.

Here are the top five I found today, at the cancer front:

• Fat Women ‘At Greater Cancer Risk’
• Alzheimer’s or cancer: Which disease would you rather die from?
• Eating broccoli can help prevent bladder cancer
• Boy’s cancer project takes off
• Amgen To Use Lab21 Diagnostic Test For Cancer Gene

Well, that’s all for now folks! I hope you are up and about for the daily grind this week.

In a Toronto hospital on Sunday evening, Jeff Healey lost his long battle with cancer.

Acclaimed jazz and rock guitarist Jeff Healey was remembered Sunday as a musician of rare ability who had a wicked sense of humour and a generous nature as fans and bandmates mourned his death at age 41, following a battle with cancer.

Bandmates of Canadian rock and jazz legend Jeff Healey were among those shocked by the news of his death Sunday.

Healey died Sunday evening in a Toronto hospital surrounded by family and a bandmate, Colin Bray.

Jeff Healey - a Grammy-nominated musician - survived by his wife Christie and two children (daughter Rachel, 13 and son Derek, 3) had long battled with cancer since age one  when he lost his eyesight to retinoblastoma — a rare form of retinal cancer.

Bray said Healey had been hospitalized for a week and that his advanced lung cancer made his final hours difficult.

Healey had undergone numerous operations in recent years to remove tumours from his lungs and leg.

Find more details of this sad news from The Canadian Press.