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Placido Domingo has surgery for colon cancer;

Placido Domingo has surgery for colon cancer;
Placido Domingo has undergone surgery to remove a cancerous polyp from his colon and is expected to make a full recovery.
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Placido Domingo has surgery for colon cancer;
Placido Domingo has undergone surgery to remove a cancerous polyp from his colon and is expected to make [...]

Placido Domingo undergoes surgery for colon cancer

Colon Cancer Awareness Month Begins With the News That President Obama Selected ‘Virtual Colonoscopy’ For His Colon …
Viatronix Incorporated, a Stony Brook, New York, based company announced that its V3D-Colon software is used at the National Naval Medical Center where the President’s annual physical was done. Â “Our software is being utilized at several DOD [...]

Placido Domingo has surgery for colon cancer

Placido Domingo undergoes surgery for colon cancer
Placido Domingo has undergone surgery to remove a cancerous polyp from his colon and is expected to make a full recovery.
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Placido Domingo has surgery for colon cancer
Placido Domingo underwent surgery last week to remove a cancerous polyp from his colon but is expected to make a [...]

Colonoscopy screening recommended for people with a family history of colon cancer

Market Commentary and Intraday News
(AP:SAN CARLOS, Calif.) Nektar Therapeutics on Monday reported that early results from a trial of an experimental cancer drug suggest a slowing in the progression of ovarian cancer.
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Colonoscopy screening recommended for people with a family history of colon cancer
A family history of colon cancer, also known as [...]

Families adjust to help care for aging parents

Families adjust to help care for aging parents
Larry Turner visits is mother’s sister, Ina Mae Fail in her room on Thursday at Hawthorne in Winter Haven. Ina Mae will celebrate her 100th birthday on May 30th. Thursday, March 04, 2010.
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Families adjust to help care for aging parents
Larry Turner visits is mother’s [...]

Area news in brief

Knowing Your Colon Cancer Family History Could Save Your Life
March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
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Area news in brief
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Gene signature may improve colon cancer treatment

End-of-Life Warning at $618,616 Makes Me Wonder Was It Worth It
March 4 (Bloomberg) — It was some time after midnight on Dec. 8, 2007, when Dr. Eric Goren told me my husband might not live till morning. The kidney cancer that had metastasized almost six years earlier was growing in his lungs.
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Gene [...]

Channel 2’s Blakley takes leave for cancer treatment

Councilman laughs in the face of cancer
During the Redondo Beach City Council meeting Feb. 16, Councilman Steve Aspel — who celebrated his 57th birthday that day — shocked a room full of already-edgy people by announcing he has been diagnosed with colorectal cancer.
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Channel 2’s Blakley takes leave for cancer treatment
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Colon cancer screenings critical

Lung cancer vaccine trials begin at Marian
Clinical trials of a lung cancer vaccine have begun in Santa Maria, Marian Medical Center announced Monday.
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Colon cancer screenings critical
DECATUR – Excluding skin cancers, colorectal cancers are thethird leading cause of cancer in both men and women in the UnitedStates, according to American Cancer [...]

New strategy develops two prototype drugs against cancer, retinal diseases

PKC-iota oncogene: Over-produced in pancreatic cancer and linked to poor patient survival
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida have found that PKC-iota (PKC), an oncogene important in colon and lung cancers, is over-produced in pancreatic cancer and is linked to poor patient survival. They also found that genetically inhibiting PKC in laboratory animals led [...]