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For Days, Potent Drug Given to Wrong King/Drew Patient
Times Staff WritersWilliam Watson doesn't have cancer. But for at least four days last week, nurses at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center gave the 46-year-old man a potent anti-cancer drug before they realized the medication was intended for another patient. When...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Hospitals and Clinics, Meningitis, Diseases and Illnesses, Health and Medical Professionals
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Profiling the suspect
Special to The TimesOvarian cancer is uncommonly deadly. Tumors aren't usually detected until the disease has spread beyond the ovaries, at which point only a third of patients survive more than five years. A promising blood test could change this bleak picture, enabling...Tags: Tumors, Medical Procedures and Tests, Science and Technology, Entertainment, Education
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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: General Practitioners, Plastic Surgeons, Science and Technology, Mastectomy, Skin Cancer
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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: Hospitals and Clinics, Science and Technology, Medical Specialization, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Boston
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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: Medical Procedures and Tests, Science and Technology, Mastectomy, Breast Reconstruction, Breast Cancer
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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...
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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...
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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: Medical Procedures and Tests, Angelina Jolie, Mastectomy, Family, Breast Cancer
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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, Medical Specialization, Human Interest
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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: Medical Procedures and Tests, Hospitals and Clinics, Heart Attack, Fibromyalgia, Heart Failure
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Cancer Institute provides new aid to locals
Staff WriterBRAWLEY — Local residents suffering from cancer no longer have to travel far for treatment, as the Cancer Institute at the Pioneers Memorial Hospital has begun accepting patients. The state-of-the-art center provides a full range of medical...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Colon Cancer, Medical Specialization, Health Treatments, Lung Cancer
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Local women, doctors weigh in on test to gauge cancer risk
The Bakersfield CalifornianWhen one of Janie Olvera's nine sisters had preventative double mastectomy to reduce her risk of developing breast cancer, Olvera thought she was crazy. But several years later, Olvera's 28-year-old niece was diagnosed with breast cancer and soon after,...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Mastectomy, Medical Specialization, Chemotherapy, Breast Cancer
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