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High Tech Breast Cancer Treatment Comes to the First Coast
As a nurse of 29 years, Carol Robinson has dealt with breast cancer on many levels, but never on her own until this September.
“I see it all the time, but for me, you know, you never think it’s going to happen to you,” says Robinson.
Robinson’s cancer was caught very early, and now she’s using a […]
A new cancer treatment will be available at the Maharagama Cancer Hospital
The Linear Accelerator Treatment System will be used to identify and control the disease. Its cost is 500 million rupees. Director of the hospital Dr. Kanishka Karunaratne said rays emitted by this machine to any place of the body can control the disease. The new Unit will be declared open tomorrow.
Cancer center plans to expand services, facility
Rocky Mountain Oncology Center announced Friday it will begin work on a $7 million expansion project of its facility and services starting next week.
The facility, which treats cancer patients from all over the state, plans to add 6,500 square feet to house two new state-of-the-art machines for cancer diagnosis and treatment and a new patient […]
Cancer Treatment Program, Mooresville hospital wants to help cancer patients
Lake Norman Regional Medical Center will host the American Cancer Society’s Look Good…Feel Better program on Monday, Nov. 17. During the seminar, volunteer cosmetologists will teach female cancer patients how to use make-up and skincare techniques to overcome the appearance-related effects of chemotherapy and radiation.
Cancer Risk From Cardiac CT Overstated
Radiology and cardiovascular researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, S.C., today presented new data that shows the risk of cancer from exposure to radiation during computed tomography for cardiovascular disease has been overstated and that new estimates are several times lower than previously published conclusions.
On the Move With a New Breast Cancer Resource
When a woman is first diagnosed with breast cancer, all kinds of questions go through her mind, and not all of them are about the cancer itself. “Will I be able to remain active? What kind of impact will treatment have on my lifestyle? Can I still be intimate with my significant other?”
New Cancer Patients Retain Little Medical Information
People hearing the devastating news that they have cancer have trouble remembering the details of the conversation with their doctor.
And, those who have the worst prognosis are likely to remember even less, a new study found.
Reporting in the Nov. 20 issue of theJournal of Clinical Oncology, researchers from the Netherlands and Australia found that most […]
Consumer Healthcare Sign Agreement to Purchase Dry Mouth Brand Biotene
GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare announced today that it has reached an agreement with Laclede, a privately held company, to purchase the leading Dry Mouth brand Biotene(R) for $170 million. The transaction is subject to regulatory review by competition authorities in the United States and Europe, and is expected to complete by early 2009.
Paul Newman’s Death Casts Spotlight on Lung Cancer
Lung cancer has been thrust into the spotlight again after the death of legendary actor and philanthropist Paul Newman at the age of 83.
Newman died Friday only a few months after pictures surfaced of him looking frail and thin as he was wheeled from the Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City, where […]