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Monthly Archive for May, 2008

ACSO annual meeting update no. 2

There were a significant number of prostate cancer poster presentations today (Saturday), many giving information about small Phase II clinical trials of investigational drugs in advanced and hormone-refractory prostate cancer (HRPC). …

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SATURDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) — The long-awaited results of a trial of the biologic drug Erbitux on patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer show it prolonged survival by about five weeks when combined with chemotherapy. …

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New Hope for Tough-to-Treat Cancers

SATURDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) — Patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer — which historically carries a grim prognosis — nearly doubled their overall survival when the cancer drug Gemzar was used after surgery, new research …

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Hepatitis A through E

Yup, the three of us most likely have Hepatitis A through E, and E is very rare. I reported it to the city. Scrub as hard as I might, I will never be completely clean again. Image Hosted by ImageShack.us add to del.icio.us …

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Cherokee Lake in Hawkins County, Tennessee is apparently Ground Zero for the Hepatitis A outbreak we reported on in the previous post. The neighboring Kentucky River District Health Department says there have been eight confirmed cases …

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