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NCCN Previews Chemotherapy Order Templates(TM)
05/30/2008
The Templates can enhance patient safety by helping clinicians standardize patient care, reduce medication errors and anticipate and manage adverse events.
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Secret Life of Raymond Burr
05/28/2008
New York Post writer Michael Starr, chronicles the life of a man whose acting career began as a contract player for RKO in 1937, gaining notice for his role as a prosecutor in 1951's A Place in the Sun, and then in a supporting role in the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window. Burr succumbed to metastasized kidney cancer on September 12, 1993.
UK Kidney Cancer Patient Forced to Pay for Drug
05/28/2008
North Staffordshire Primary Care Trust has refused to pay for the £3,000-a-month treatment.
Gum Disease Might Boost Kidney Cancer Risk Nearly 50%
05/27/2008
While the overall risk was 14 percent, the risk for specific cancers was typically higher. Compared to men with healthy gums, men with a history of gum disease had a 36 percent increased risk of lung cancer, and a 49 percent hike in risk of kidney cancer.
ABC, CBS, and NBC Announce "Stand Up to Cancer"
05/27/2008
A new initiative to raise philanthropic dollars for accelerating ground-breaking research, will launch tomorrow through an unprecedented collaboration uniting the major television networks.
True Blue Tradition: Dodgers To Honor 1960s Alumni
05/19/2008
Don Sutton, the franchise's winningest pitcher, will be honored for his work with his new educational program, "Stay In The Game," which empowers people affected by kidney cancer.
RAD001 is first and only drug to show significant benefit after failure of Sutent(R) or Nexavar(R)
05/19/2008
New data show RAD001 (everolimus) may provide an important new treatment option for patients with advanced kidney cancer who have failed standard therapies.
Majority of kidney cancers diagnosed at earliest stage
05/19/2008
Patients in the United States today are now much more likely to be diagnosed with smaller tumors, in the earliest, most treatable stage of kidney cancer than a decade ago, leading to a slightly higher survival rate, according to the results of a national study led by a UC San Diego Medical Center researcher.
Move to North could help cancer patient live
05/18/2008
A kidney cancer patient may be forced to sell his home and move to the North if a last-ditch appeal to his NHS trust for a life-prolonging drug fails.
RAD001 in Kidney Cancer
05/16/2008
Nearly two-thirds of kidney cancer patients taking Novartis's RAD001 had progression of their disease delayed by a year, researchers said.
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