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View Post: Beth Patterson : Guest post: The choice for compassion- a very ...
24 Nov 2009 by Beth Patterson  
Abbie was diagnosed 2 ½ years earlier with a rare form of soft-tissue sarcoma only recently given its own designation as Perivascular Epithelioid Sarcoma. The initial prognosis was for the cancer to take her life within 2 years. ... Whether alternative or conventional, treatment options had two things in common: they could offer no verifiable assurances of extending her life, and while in progress they would certainly degrade her present quality of life. ...
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View Post: New vasculitis therapy may help patients keep infertility, cancer ...
18 Oct 2009 by Ani  
September 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - In what offers a new treatment option for people with soft-tissue sarcomas, experts have found that patients are 30 per cent more likely to be alive and cancer free almost three years after starting treatment if their ... luxurygiftsuk Therapy can treat arthritis: By Rick Ruggles A rheumatoid arthritis treatment that can cost patients thousands o.. http://bit.ly/42SPQy; garciachiro Oxnard & Hueneme Alternative Medicine for Arthritis ...
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View Post: Immutep S.A. Announces Start of Clinical Trial in Pancreatic ...
15 Apr 2009
IMP321 will be given s.c. q14 for a 6-month period the day after gemcitabine administration, with an option for additional months of therapy if disease improvement or stabilisation is observed. Approximately 33 patients are expected to ... His specialty areas are complex cancer surgery for primary and metastatic lesions of the liver, pancreas and stomach and surgical management of soft-tissue sarcomas of the abdomen and extremities. He was educated at the State University ...
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View Post: VA Extends Benefits for Conditions Related to Agent Orange Exposure
15 Oct 2009
Prostate Cancer – Cancer of the prostate that is common among men. Respiratory Cancers – Cancers of the lung, larynx, trachea, and bronchus. Soft Tissue Sarcoma (other than Osteosarcoma, Chondrosarcoma, Kaposi's sarcoma, or Mesothelioma) – A group ... FDA Approves Non-Hormonal Therapy for Treatment of Heavy Menstrual Bleeding. Drucilla Dyess, November 22, 2009. Help is on the way for some 3 million U.S. women of reproductive age who suffer from heavy menstrual bleeding, ...
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View Post: BBC - Mark Mardell's America: US report on 'harm' of testing for ...
17 Nov 2009
This is because film mammograms are not as effective in pre-menopausal women. as the density of the breast tissue makes it more difficult to detect problems, and also because the incidence of breast cancer is lower in this age group. ...
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View Post: usmle preparation: Intestinal Leiomyosarcoma
20 Nov 2009 by asghar  
Approximately 1-2% of solid tumors are soft tissue sarcomas, and leiomyosarcomas comprise roughly 2-9% of these sarcomas. Of leiomyosarcomas, 20% are found in the GI tract, with sites of occurrence evenly divided between the stomach and ... In 1994, Disario reviewed the cases entered from 1966-1990 in the Utah Cancer Registry; only 328 cases of small intestine cancer were recorded. Of these cases, 41% were carcinoid, 24% were adenocarcinomas, and 11% were sarcomas (1% was ...
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View Post: Daily Pharma Watch » GekkoWire
24 Nov 2009 by admin  
CytRx announced this morning that they plan to initiate a Phase II trial with their doxorubicin prodrug INNO-206 for soft tissue sarcoma. We'll see how this one turns out, because Cancer Companies have long been looking for a safer ... In fact, Cell Therapeutics has an NDA awaiting a Panel Hearing date for a drug called Pixnatrone (also a sister to doxorubicin, to read an analysis of Pixantrone click here) which was supposed to be a safe alternative to doxorubicin, ...
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View Post: Soft Tissue Sarcoma in my GS - Globalpaw.com Dog Forum
1 Nov 2008
... in Jan to an aggressive soft tissue sarcoma, Hemangiopericytoma which regenerated aggressively after the initial removal so maybe I can help a bit. Did your vet explain or recommend a cancer diet, herbs, alternative tumor therapy, ...
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View Post: Finally, Some relatively Good News! «
26 Nov 2009 by Bobby Grow  
Anyway, we went in; I do in fact have a sarcoma (or soft-tissue tumor), its proper name is: Desmoplastic Small Cell Tumor. This might not sound like such great news, but considering the alternative, a sarcoma in my lymph nodes, this is great news. My cancer is ... which means that the surgeon can ideally go in, cut it out, and we can be done with it — beyond ideally, he can still go in, cut it out, and I will have to follow it up with some radiation and/or chemo-therapy. ...
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View Post: Tom DeSanto Healthcare Commentary: The Freakonomics of Chemotherapy
12 Nov 2009 by Tom DeSanto  
Although the 5-year survival rate for all cancer patients has been shown to be 63 percent, barely 2 percent of survival is attributable to chemotherapy. For multiple myeloma, soft-tissue sarcoma, melanoma of the skin and cancers of the ...
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