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Patients' rights must be protected
07/07/2009
A slippery slope when the cost of therapies is weighed against survival rates for patients.
Financing children's health on the least able to pay
07/07/2009
Ironically CHIP was originally designed 10 years ago as a safety net program for the poor and near poor. But now CHIP is being financed on the backs of those least able to sustain it.
Of NICE and Men
07/07/2009
The inevitable result of their plan will be some version of a NICE board that will tell millions of Americans, including people who are fighting renal cancers, that they are too young, or too old, or too sick to be worth paying to care for.
Support Penn State football's 'Lift for Life' program
07/07/2009
This years event is scheduled for Friday, July 10, from 2-7 p.m. in Holuba Hall, which is located directly across from the East Area Locker Room and adjacent to the Lasch Football Building.
New Enemy For Tumor-suppressor P53 Identified
07/07/2009
Researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have identified a protein that marks the tumor suppressor p53 for destruction, providing a potential new avenue for restoring p53 in cancer cells.
$3.5 million drug development project
07/07/2009
This IL-2 analog will allow more clinically effective doses to be administered, resulting in significantly improved disease control with fewer complications.
Westport family hits the road for NBC reality show
07/06/2009
The couple met in November, when he was fresh off a divorce and she was fresh off a battle with kidney cancer.
Stage IV RCC with mets to lungs and media sternum
07/06/2009
If anyone can help me in any way - with a similar diagnosis, using Sutent, and with support and understanding of how devasted I feel I will be very grateful.
Where is the implementation of KPT's promises?
07/06/2009
The lives of Javed Ahmed and his siblings were devastated when their father, Faiz Mohammed, died of kidney cancer. Ahmeds father, a resident of Lyari, was an employee of Karachi Port Trust (KPT), and had been running from pillar to post since the past several years to get his son a job in KPT via the employees quota, yet all his efforts went in vain.
Uplifting Athletes looks to continue growth with seventh Lift for Life
07/03/2009
This year's event is scheduled for 2-7 p.m. Friday, July 10 in Holuba Hall. Last year, more than 90 Nittany Lion football student-athletes tested their strength and endurance in this 11-exercise competition that raised more than $70,000 for the Kidney Cancer Association.
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