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Protect against dangers of 3 quiet cancers - MSNBC
Your doctor has given you the lowdown on how to protect yourself against breast, colon, and lung cancer: Get yearly mammograms (check) and regular colonoscopies (check), and don't smoke (double check). But when was the last time she asked if you had ...

Shortage of isotopes to hit medical scans - Hindustan Times
A global shortage of medical isotopes, used in more than 80 per cent of heart and bone scans and in detection of cancer, will hamper diagnostic examinations over the coming weeks. Medical isotopes are small quantities of radioactive substances used ...

REMINDER: ORLive Presents: Hip Replacement Using Antero-Lateral ... - Market Wire
Dr. Martin uses an anterolateral approach to perform the hip replacement procedure. This approach allows the patient to lie on his or her side during the surgical procedure. DAVENPORT, IA--(Marketwire - September 8, 2008) - Sports are a big part of ...

Stepping for a Cure Memory of baby Olivia drives Caring for the ... - News Sun
WAUKEGAN -- Nancy Rivera has a passion for helping people who have leukemia and other forms of cancer. After the death last November of 18-month-old Olivia Jenkins from complications of leukemia, coupled with the death of one of her friends, Rivera ...

Global shortage of isotopes puts hundreds of cancer scans in doubt - The Independent
A global shortage of radioactive imaging agents vital to the diagnosis of cancer and other diseases threatens to delay treatment for hundreds of patients in Britain. Specialists warned yesterday that UK hospitals are receiving less than half the ...

Dora student battling cancer - Portales News-Tribune
A Dora student’s fight against cancer received a boost with his father’s return from active duty in Afghanistan recently. Eight year-old Lance Fletcher of Dora was diagnosed earlier this summer with osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer. He has ...

GR cancer research helps 6-year-old - MSNBC
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) -- It seems as though we all know someone who has been affected by cancer, but what many people in West Michigan don't know about are the strides being taken here in Grand Rapids to combat the disease. While facilities on ...

Holbrook boy, 8, needs a bone marrow transplant - Enterprise
For 8-year-old Donovan Sands of Holbrook, the coming weeks could be life-saving. In June, the boy was diagnosed with a rare, progressive bone marrow disease affecting less than 200 people worldwide. He also has autism. His only hope for survival is a ...

VELCADE(R) (Black Triangle Drug) (bortezomib) Approved For Previously ... - Yahoo Finance
HIGH WYCOMBE, England, September 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Janssen-Cilag / Ortho Biotech, the biopharmaceutical division of Janssen-Cilag, today announced the European Commission's approval of VELCADE in combination with melphalan and prednisone for the ...

Support system helps Canfield woman tackle cancer - Vindicator
CANFIELD­­ — More than a year after her initial diagnosis of acute myleogenous leukemia, Lori Marsh said she is ready and able to live an active, healthy life. After a bone marrow transplant that didn’t take and a stem cell transplant, the 47 ...

 

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