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California a leading state for research into cancer afflicting Gov. Brown
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E. Donnall Thomas dies at 92; physician won a Nobel Prize
E. Donnall Thomas, a physician who pioneered the use of bone marrow transplants in leukemia patients and won the 1990 Nobel Prize in medicine, died Saturday in Seattle of heart disease. He was 92. The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle,...
Tags: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Heart Disease, Awards and Prizes, Leukemia, Entertainment Events
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Genetics to determine cancer treatments
The war on cancer is poised to enter a new phase that promises more precise treatments, fewer side effects and, most of all, more survivors. And none too soon. Although death rates from many cancers have slowly but steadily declined over the decades,...
Tags: Genetics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Diseases and Illnesses, Medical Specialization, Biology
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Fighting diseases with genetic therapy
Genes make us who we are — in sickness and in health. We get our genetic makeup from our parents, of course, but in the future, we might be getting genes from our doctors too. Imagine your doctor promising to cure your cancer or heart disease by...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Arteriosclerotic Vascular Disease, Abdominal Pain, Health and Medical Professionals, Genetic Engineering
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The New War on Cancer
It used to be that the cancer doctor’s toolbox contained three essential tools — a scalpel to cut out the disease, chemo to poison it and radiation to zap it.
But today that toolbox is bulging with new and better weapons.
“We’re...Tags: Bevacizumab (drug), Ronald Reagan, Diseases and Illnesses, Genes and Chromosomes, Medical Specialization
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The Siren's Call: Cellular Situations
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCancer lends itself to the realms of myth. Siddhartha Mukherjee gave the disease some regal treatment in the title of his prize-winning book "The Emperor of All Maladies," but cancer's no emperor. It's a beast. Where actual mythological monsters are...Tags: Authors, Folklore and Mythology, Diseases and Illnesses, Arts and Culture, University of Oxford
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Drug may be near for cancer's companion condition cachexia
Bonnie Addario didn't even know there was a word for what was happening to her. As if lung cancer weren't bad enough, the 54-year-old had lost 30 pounds off her normally 130-pound frame. Her life was limited to her husband's Barcalounger, where she had to...Tags: Weight Loss, Education, Diseases and Illnesses, Harvard Medical School, Digestive System
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Ovarian cancer risk increases after IVF
Women who underwent at least one vitro fertilization cycle in an effort to become pregnant were almost twice as likely to develop ovarian cancer as women who experienced infertility but did not get such treatment, say the authors of a large Dutch study...Tags: Cancer, Chemotherapy, Ovarian Cancer, Infertility, Diseases and Illnesses
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New Avastin tests add to confusion over use in breast cancer
In November, following an emotional public hearing some months earlier, the Food and Drug Administration withdrew approval for the cancer drug Avastin for patients with metastatic breast cancer — the late-stage, incurable form of the disease. The...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, High Blood Pressure, Human Body, Breast Cancer, Diseases and Illnesses
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Sweet revenge on cancer treatment
I was baptized at Our Lady of Hypochondria Church.
When I get a headache, my mind speeds past simple causes, like "sinus pressure," and goes straight to "inoperable brain tumor." If my leg tingles, it's multiple sclerosis; if my heart hiccups, it's...Tags: Cancer, Methamphetamine (drug), Hospitals and Clinics, Multiple Sclerosis, Health
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Children's Hospitals
In photographs, Megan Webber’s 5-year-old son Benjamin had a white glow on one eye where other people have that little red dot. It didn’t seem important at first, then her sister remembered seeing a TV show about the glow and eye disease....Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Medical Specialization, Mattel Inc., Health, General Practitioners
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