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Elizabeth Vega Casey: Women with breast cancer gene have treatment choices
The Morning Call may not be The New York Times, but I have to acknowledge that I am not Angelina Jolie either. But there are similarities. Let me explain. Firstly, I want to take a moment to sincerely applaud her decision to reveal through The New York...Tags: News Media, Breast Cancer, Angelina Jolie, MRI (imaging), Lehigh Valley Hospital
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Health Technology Park In Connecticut Could Create Thousands Of Jobs
The Hartford CourantA $368 million health technology park — anchored by a cancer treatment center — could create as many as 2,500 jobs to north central Connecticut in the next five years, the project's developers say. The developers of ProTech Park said they...Tags: Technology, Hospitals and Clinics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Science, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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El Paso cancer patient is glad Angelina Jolie raised awareness of double mastectomy
El Paso Times, TexasEl Pasoan Alice Chavez knows what it's like to be Angelina Jolie. At least when it comes to her health. Like, Jolie, Chavez has undergone a double mastectomy. She had cancer in her left breast, and a risk of cancer in the still-healthy one. "In...Tags: Ovarian Cancer, Skin Cancer, Plastic Surgery, Angelina Jolie, Plastic Surgeons
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Mother, daughter reflect on their experiences with cancer-causing gene mutation
The Daily Times, Farmington, N.M.For More Information Those interested in more information about the BRCA mutation can contact the San Juan Regional Medical Center's Cancer Navigator at 505-609-6259. Additional information about support and resources available to those diagnosed with...Tags: Ovarian Cancer, Angelina Jolie, Chemotherapy, Abdominal Pain, Mastectomy
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Clermont location is Goodwill Industries of Central Florida's first 'American-made' retail store
Goodwill Industries of Central Florida has opened its first "American-made" retail store and Job Connection Center at 1855 S. Grand Highway, Clermont. Completed in partnership with Winter Park-based Williams Company, roughly 98 percent of the...
Tags: Leesburg, Human Interest, Winter Park, ABC (tv network), Hospitals and Clinics
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Angelina Jolie's decision to get double mastectomy isn't unusual in Lehigh Valley
Kelly Vanek, a runner, cyclist and triathlete, was listening to sports talk radio in the car when the conversation shifted to Angelina Jolie. The actress and sex symbol took the public by surprise last week with the announcement that she had her healthy...
Tags: Entertainment, Ovarian Cancer, Celebrity Surgery, Angelina Jolie, Chemotherapy
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Supporters, Survivors Rally at Relay for Life
The Chronicle, Centralia, Wash.More than 44 teams set up tents at the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds Friday afternoon to participate in the 2013 Relay for Life of Lewis County, which is scheduled to continue through 4 p.m. today. Faye Mullins, of Onalaska, started a team last...Tags: Relay for Life, Human Interest, Medical Specialization
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Surgeon and patient: Jolie decision right
The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va.WVU Hospitals Interim Chief of Surgical Oncology Hannah Hazard said a double mastectomy is something doctors counsel patients to undergo if they have the same genetic trait that led actress Angelina Jolie to undergo the procedure. Hazard performs...Tags: Ovarian Cancer, Breast Cancer, Vaccines, Angelina Jolie, Family
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Misdiagnosis: More Common Than Drug Errors or Wrong-Site Surgery
The Hartford CourantUntil it happened to him, Itzhak Brook, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Georgetown University School of Medicine, didn't think much about the problem of misdiagnosis. That was before doctors at a Maryland hospital repeatedly told Brook his...Tags: Heart Failure, IBM, Corporate Officers, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Letters: Jolie's choice
Re "Why Jolie's surgery? It's for the kids," Column One, May 15 My story is similar to Angelina Jolie's, though there are some differences. Ten years ago, at the age of 43, I had a prophylactic double mastectomy because I was the single mother of two...
Tags: Ovarian Cancer, Breast Cancer, Angelina Jolie, Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Autism
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Cancer cover girl rallies to launch fashion line
In a playroom at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, a frail, bald-headed 13-year-old girl is between takes for “omg! Insider,” a TV celebrity-gossip show, talking about her new fashion line. Talia Joy Castellano of Oviedo — her...
Tags: Breast Cancer, Cancer, The Huffington Post, Hospitals and Clinics, Viral Diseases and Infections
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Sisters increase awareness of hereditary breast cancer
Richmond Times-DispatchWhen tests showed that sisters Dina Reinhardt and Tracie Abrams both carried the breast cancer 1 gene mutation, significantly raising their risk of developing breast and ovarian cancers, both decided to have their breasts removed. Reinhardt, 36, married...Tags: Genetics, Prostate Cancer, Ovarian Cancer, Biology, Angelina Jolie
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