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Michael Douglas: It took doctors nine months to figure out walnut-sized tumor at the back of my tongue was throat cancer

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Source: www.nydailynews.com Author: Corky Siemaszko Michael Douglas said the tumor at the back of his tongue was the size of a walnut, but it still took doctors nine months to figure out it was throat cancer. “I knew something was wrong,” he said. “My tooth was really sore, and I thought I had an infection.” [...]

New research reveals genetic mutations of HNC

Monday, December 31, 2012

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Source: www.drbicuspid.com Author: DrBicuspid Staff New findings regarding the genetic mutations that cause head and neck cancer (HNC) may lead to new therapies, according to collaborative research presented in November at the 2012 Chemotherapy Foundation Symposium in New York City. Aaron Tward, MD, PhD, and colleagues analyzed tumor samples provided by the University of Pittsburgh [...]

The effect of treating institution on outcomes in head and neck cancer

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

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Source: medicalxpress.com Patients with head and neck cancer receiving radiation treatment at an academic center have a higher survival rate than those receiving treatment at a community center, according to a study in the December 2012 issue of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery. “Despite similar rates of treatment completion and rate of treatment breaks between groups, [...]

No ref’s return as special as Corrente’s

Thursday, October 4, 2012

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Source: sportsillustrated.cnn.com Author: Peter King The voice of Tony Corrente was ebullient, as ebullient as a man who stared down his own mortality within the past few months and lived to tell about it. “How are you doing?” I asked Corrente an hour after he refereed his first game — Niners-Jets at the Meadowlands Sunday [...]

Growing ‘mini tumors’ from patient’s cancer could lead to custom treatments

Friday, September 28, 2012

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Source: www.huffingtonpost.com Author: Marilynn Marchione It’s a medical nightmare: a 24-year-old man endures 350 surgeries since childhood to remove growths that keep coming back in his throat and have spread to his lungs, threatening his life. Now doctors have found a way to help him by way of a scientific coup that holds promise for [...]

Demystifying the immortality of cancer cells

Sunday, July 8, 2012

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Source: http://medicalxpress.com/ Author: In cancer cells, normal mechanisms governing the cellular life cycle have gone haywire. Cancer cells continue to divide indefinitely, without ever dying off, thus creating rapidly growing tumors. Swiss scientists have discovered a protein complex involved this deregulated process, and hope to be able to exploit it to stop tumor formation in [...]

200 Years of surgery: cutting to cure has come a long way

Sunday, May 6, 2012

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Source: abcnews.go.com Author: Katie Moisse The three-and-a-half-inch tumor in Cynthia Miller’s throat threatened to choke her, leaving her no choice but to have it removed. “I had no idea I was even sick,” said Miller, 55, who lives in Maitland, Fla. “I woke up in the middle of the night coughing. … The next thing [...]

Viruses recruited as killers of tumors

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

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Source: nytimes.com Author: Rachel Nuwer In 1951, a 4-year-old boy with leukemia contracted chickenpox. His liver and spleen, swollen by the cancer, soon returned to normal, and his elevated blood cell count fell to that of a healthy child. His doctors at the Laboratory of Experimental Oncology in San Francisco were thrilled by his sudden [...]

Post-transplant head and neck tumors tallied

Sunday, February 19, 2012

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Source: www.familypracticenews.com Author: Damian McNamara, Family Practice News Digital Network Patients who have undergone solid organ transplantation are at greater risk for subsequent tumor development, and head and neck cancers can be particularly aggressive, according to results of a single-institution study. Dr. Robert H. Deeb and his associates at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit studied [...]

Computer scientists may have what it takes to help cure cancer

Thursday, December 8, 2011

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Source: nytimes.com Author: David Patterson The war against cancer is increasingly moving into cyberspace. Computer scientists may have the best skills to fight cancer in the next decade — and they should be signing up in droves. One reason to enlist: Cancer is so pervasive. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “The Emperor of All Maladies,” [...]

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