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Nation's top cancer doctor renews pledge
Andrew C. von Eschenbach, director of the National Cancer Institute, renewed his pledge to eliminate the suffering and death due to cancer by 2015 during a two-day visit to UC Davis Cancer Center ...
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Robotic-assisted prostatectomy
Now there's "band-aid" surgery for prostate cancer. The UC Davis Department of Urology performed eight robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomies in the first six months after introducing the procedure last August ...
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  Healthy Yuba County
A coalition led by UC Davis Health System is launching a campaign to reduce Yuba County’s cancer rate, the highest in the state ...
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  Ripon girl launches 2005 St. Baldrick’s campaign
Francesca Arnaudo was 6 when she lost a bone in her right arm to osteosarcoma. Now 8, the Ripon third-grader was diagnosed in December with a second form of cancer ...
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  New land, new threat
The Hmong in California face rates of nasopharyngeal, cervical, stomach and liver cancer up to 16 times higher than those of non-Hispanic whites and three times higher than those of Asian Americans overall ...
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  One thousand paper cranes
"Sadako and the Thousand Cranes" is one of 10-year-old Abby Scurfield's favorite books. It tells the story of Sadako, a Japanese girl with leukemia, who focuses her energy on folding 1,000 paper cranes ...
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  Breast reconstruction
Performing breast reconstruction surgery at the time of mastectomy does not delay post-operative chemotherapy for women with breast cancer, according to the first study designed to answer the question ...
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