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Doctors aim to stop pancreatic cancer before it forms
Seeing a chance to stop one of the most deadly kinds of cancer before it forms, doctors at Johns Hopkins and at other hospitals around the nation are focusing on the common pancreatic cyst.
Up to 20 percent of pancreatic cancer begins as one of these...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Gallbladder, Fort Lauderdale, Genes and Chromosomes, Pancreatic Cancer
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Moving on, fighting on
Dr. Leisha Emens dreads the calls she has been getting lately. The news is rarely good. "A lot of people are dying right now. It's to be expected. These people have an incurable disease," Emens says in late August, as she wraps up her early work running...Tags: Preventative Medicine, Hospitals and Clinics, Immune System, Atlanta, Biotechnology
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What a vaccine does
In the nearly 40 years since the nation declared war on cancer, great advances have been made in breast cancer screening, early detection and treatment. The death rate for breast cancers has fallen. More is discovered all the time about the genetics and...Tags: Science, Preventative Medicine, Immune System, Biotechnology, Biology
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The trial of their lives
For the past two days, Annie Siple has patiently crisscrossed the Johns Hopkins medical campus for test after test, being scanned by big machines, pricked with small needles, fastened to electrodes, injected with dye. Soon she will find out who is...Tags: Preventative Medicine, Hospitals and Clinics, Immune System, Biotechnology, Amusement and Theme Parks
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It's not working
The elevator doors open on the fifth floor at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Peggy Murphy tentatively steps out, as if crossing a threshold in the struggle to stay ahead of her breast cancer. Last fall, she had been accepted into Dr. Leisha Emens' clinical...Tags: Preventative Medicine, Hospitals and Clinics, Immune System, Biotechnology, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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The most difficult journey
Sun StaffThat night after everyone had gone, when it was late and the hospital was quiet, the boy savored his triumph. He eyed the long white coat that hung nearby. An honorary medical degree that his doctors had presented him that afternoon was propped against...Tags: Plastic Surgeons, Biotechnology, Hemorrhaging, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Brain
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Excerpts from the journal of R.J. Voigt
12/16/2001 Dear Journal, I am 10 years old, and in the 5th grade. My name is Ronald Joseph Frank Voigt. I have had cancer for more than a year. This may well be two years. I'm determined to keep a dairy. Right now to January, I will be getting...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Hospitals and Clinics, Plastic Surgeons, Chemotherapy, Family
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Buying time at a heavy price
Sun StaffThe summer storm had been brewing for hours. From his hospital bed, R.J. Voigt looked out the tall window and watched the lightning streak across the gray sky. "One Mississippi, two Mississippi," the 12-year-old counted, waiting for the thunder he knew...Tags: Pocomoke City, Plastic Surgeons, Hospitals and Clinics, Healthcare Provider, Biotechnology
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Learning how to say goodbye
Sun StaffNo one knew why the boy started shimmying, going for the corners of his hospital bed. R.J. Voigt was suddenly restless, agitated. The 12-year-old kept calling out for his mom. But he didn't seem to know what he wanted. She kept asking the doctors, "Is...Tags: Pocomoke City, Plastic Surgeons, Hospitals and Clinics, Rome (Italy), Dog (animal)
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Daddy's girl
Sun StaffOn the day Alyssa Kreinschroeder's father told her he was being deployed to the Persian Gulf, he said he could be gone for a year. A year is a long time for a girl of 11 to imagine being away from her father, so Alyssa asked him: Was there any chance he'd...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, West Point, Louisville, Iraq, Freedom of the Press
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Battle ends for courageous coach
Sun StaffDiane Geppi-Aikens, the hometown girl who turned Loyola College women's lacrosse into a national power and became one of the leading figures in Baltimore women's sports, died early yesterday morning at her home in Overlea after a long battle with brain...Tags: Colleges and Universities, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Family, Baseball, Lacrosse
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Coach's inspiration gives Loyola its heart
Sun StaffThe tributes to Diane Geppi-Aikens come in waves now. Almost every time her Loyola women's lacrosse team takes the field, rival players wear Greyhounds green shoelaces or wrap rings of green tape around their sticks. Many players and coaches across the...Tags: The Happiest News!, Death, Health and Safety at School, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Baseball
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