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Cancer educates a med student

Joshua Lilienstein is uninsured, battling to regain his health and learning to become a doctor at USC.

DaVia shares others’ cancer journeys

Nicole DaVia, who has twice beaten cancer, is a physician assistant at the Marion L. Shepard Cancer Center, a division of Beaufort County Medical Center.

Former cancer patient honors K-Kids at Popplewell Elementary

Buhl, Idaho – Emma Gibbons of Burley was diagnosed with leukemia when she was eight and a half years old; she got a bone marrow transplant at primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah a year ago in February.

Imaging costs rising faster than total cancer care for Medicare

( Duke University Medical Center ) The cost of imaging studies in cancer patients covered by Medicare is growing at twice the rate of the overall costs of cancer care in that group, according to scientists in the Duke Clinical Research Institute. A dramatic increase in PET scans is leading the way.

MDS, a blood cancer, strikes nearly five times more Americans than previously thought

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) – a group of serious blood cancers – are nearly five times more common in seniors than previously thought, according to a new study by researchers from the John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center.





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