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Fertility preservation for women with cancer
When a young woman is diagnosed with cancer, getting pregnant is probably the last thing on her mind. But if she wants children in the future, it's something she should think about. The chemotherapy and radiation treatments used to treat cancer can hurt a...Tags: Gynecology, In Vitro Fertilization, Sexual and Reproductive Organs, Biotechnology, Chemotherapy
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University of Maryland Medical School to open proton center
The University of Maryland School of Medicine has begun construction of a $200 million proton center that will bring the latest in cancer treatment to the region and double investment in the University of Maryland's growing BioPark in West Baltimore....Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Radiology, Investments, Hospitals and Clinics, Martin O'Malley
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Ride for Kids aims to raise research funds for brain cancer
A story in a motorcycle trade paper started Bob Henig on his 20-year crusade to help children overcome a deadly disease that attacks 11 of them in the U.S. daily. The children's stories of coping, surviving and sometimes succumbing have kept him riding to...Tags: Brain, Medical Research, Health Treatments, Charity, Fiction
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Dr. Herbert Leonard Warres
Baltimore Sun reporterDr. Herbert Leonard Warres, a World War II combat surgeon who later became a radiologist and headed the outpatient radiology department at what is now the University of Maryland Medical Center, died Wednesday at North Oaks retirement community in...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Radiology, Pikesville, University of Maryland Medical Center, Armed Conflicts
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Understanding the new prostate cancer screening recommendations
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent advisory panel, recently recommended that healthy men not be given PSA blood tests to detect prostate cancer. But that won't mean the end of diagnosis and treatment of the disease, the most common...Tags: Minority Groups, Hospitals and Clinics, Chemotherapy, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Health Treatments
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Dr. Duane Anthony Sewell, head and neck surgeon
Dr. Duane Anthony Sewell, a highly regarded head and neck surgeon and researcher who was also a member of the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, died Nov. 26 of gastric cancer at his Mount Washington home.
Dr. Sewell was 44.
"I...Tags: Montgomery County (Maryland), Science, Hospitals and Clinics, Stomach Cancer, Ear, Nose, and Throat
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21st Century Oncology Receive full ACRO Accreditation
21st Century Oncology, which operates a network of free-standing radiation oncology centers, including one each in Bel Air and Belcamp, has announced it has received full accreditation from the American College of Radiation. "It is an honor to have...Tags: Health Treatments, Companies and Corporations, Medical Services, Harford County, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Rhoda P. Levin, educator, dies
Baltimore Sun reporterRhoda P. Levin, a national leader in community health care education and a community activist, died July 5 of leukemia at her Pikesville home. She was 82. Rhoda Powell was born in New York City. In 1942, she moved to Baltimore when her parents opened a...Tags: Catonsville, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Hospitals and Clinics, Behavioral Conditions, Pikesville
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William Pitcher, insurance firm owner, dies
William Malcolm Pitcher, an insurance firm owner, died of cancer July 5 at Gilchrist Hospice Center in Towson, one of the local charities he assisted during his life. The Brooklandville resident was 83.
Born in Baltimore and raised on Bateman Avenue,...Tags: Social Services, Boy Scouts of America, Anglicanism, General Motors Corp., Korean War (1950-1953)
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Patients have a right to choose treatment options
There's one question Jay Hancock failed to consider in his column on urologists who refer patients to radiation centers that they own ("Self-referral rules or not, business as usual for clinic," May 17): What is the role of the patient in determining...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Baptist, Prostate Cancer, Christianity, Cancer
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Hancock makes unfounded, uninformed allegations
I object in the strongest terms to the unfounded allegations in Jay Hancock's column "Self-referral rules or not, business as usual for clinic" (May 17). The column is a one-sided, uninformed attack on the integrity of those who practice and work at...Tags: Prostate, Hospitals and Clinics, Prostate Cancer, Human Body, Maryland
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Technology improves lung cancer diagnosis and treatments
Lung cancer results when abnormal cell growth invades and destroys normal lung tissue. An accumulation of abnormal cells is called a tumor. As a tumor grows, it can impair lung function, resulting in breathing difficulty and decreased oxygen in the blood....Tags: Cleveland Clinic, Biotechnology, Chemotherapy, Coughing, Lung Cancer
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