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...prostate and were about to enter my bones. My one option that did not involve the devastation that chemotherapy brings was a Laparoscopic Prostatectomy - keyhole surgery to remove the cancer. I was operated on within weeks. Then, after a...

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...limb allows a wider range of movement than a limb that is repaired with limb sparing surgery. Surgery to remove the cancer sparing the limb. When bone cancer can be separated from nerves and other tissue, the surgeon may be able to remove...

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...president has prostate cancer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt says that he has prostate cancer and expects to have surgery in January. The 57-year-old Hunt, pastor of the Atlanta-area First...

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Fifty patients with gastric cancer who have failed other treatments, including surgery and chemotherapy with drugs other than doxorubicin (anthracyclines), will receive INNO-206 approximately every three weeks for four treatment cycles. The...

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...little breast tissue. Removing the cancer means removing all of the breast. Criss underwent two surgeries for his tumor, but did not need radiation or chemotherapy. His doctor says he is cancer-free today. For more information, go here or...

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...trial with its doxorubicin prodrug INNO-206 as a treatment for patients with advanced soft tissue sarcomas who have failed surgery and radiation. Soft tissue sarcomas are cancers that are formed in the muscle, fat, fibrous tissue, blood...

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...to implement it for the 11 conditions that rack up 40 percent of Medicare spending on inpatient surgery, including early-stage prostate and breast cancers and osteoarthritis of the knee, hip, and spine. Doing so, according to an...

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...it may be possible to remove the cancer using radiotherapy alone. Later stage-one and stage-two cancer will probably require a combination of surgery and radiotherapy. Radiotherapy The energy beams used during radiotherapy have to be...

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...problems, he said. Dr. Kerry Fisher, chief of surgery at LDS Hospital, also answered callers' questions, including one about irritable bowel syndrome and whether it puts a patient at increased risk for colon cancer. "After 10 years, it...

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