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Students Raise Money for Classmate

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Cedar Park High School Students recently raised money to help fellow classmate Jasmine Subia She lost her leg to cancer Fellow student Lexi Millard decided she would help lead the effort

Boy Blinded By Tumor Finds Joy In Music

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Music is a favorite pastime for a Berwick boy who was left blind by a tumor News 8 s Tory Ryden reports

Santa Fe police officer laid to rest

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After a drawn out battle with leukemia and after succumbing to the H1N1 flu virus officer Jason Hill died last week He was laid to rest Friday

Former Leukemia Patient Pays It Forward

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A Valley woman gives back to the patients and nurses at Banner Good Samaritan s Bone Marrow Transplant Center

Anchor Room auction this weekend

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Everything inside the Anchor Room Christain book store will be auctioned Saturday

Health Watch: Co-Workers Help Sick Mom

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Co-workers of a Florida woman decided to pitch in ensure that her family has a merry Christmas The 34-year-old mom is the victim to a rare disease that caused her skin to burn from the inside out

Tests For Ovarian Cancer Not Accurate

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:43:13 +0000

More than 20 000 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer every year but doctors say annual screenings aren t accurate

Mercy Medical Launches Capital Campaign

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When battling cancer you want the best technology can provide to aid in that fight At Mercy Medical Center s Leonard P Nelson Cancer Treatment Center in Williston that technology is there but more is now needed That of course means more money is needed This week a major fundraising campaign kicked off Perry Olson tells us what the millions raised will buy Bob Beery Mgr - Mercy Oncology Dept The linear accelerator is our radiation delivery machine It s a machine that can kill cancer and it is time for it to have a companion but Bob Beery Mgr - Mercy Oncology Dept New machine ranges from 2 2 to 2 7 million So that means it is time for some hard work The Mercy Medical Foundation has launched a campaign to raise five million dollars It will buy a new Accelerator a vault for it to do its work and a new oncology treatment area Bob Beery Mgr - Mercy Oncology Dept Our volume is increasing With the aging population and baby boomers getting older we are expecting more cancer over the next ten to fifteen years And this campaign will help meet the needs of those people but before then the people of the region have to meet the needs of the hospital Kerry Monson CEO - Mercy Medical Ctr Anybody who really knows anyone who cares about this hospital can be instrumental in securing those important gifts The Leonard P Nelson Cancer Treatment Center is at the top of what it can do each day with the current equipment it is vital to make this improvement so that it can continue to grow Kerry Monson CEO - Mercy Medical Ctr And we as stewards have to make sure that gets replaced before it breaks down or before the issues go beyond just the useful life So we want to be proactive with that And they are doing exactly that with this financial goal being proactive and preparing to help more people beat cancer Bob Beery Mgr - Mercy Oncology Dept We are staffed accordingly that we can handle increase Perry Olson KX News Right now the cancer center treats about 19 people each day With the added space and equipment that number could grow to 45 Mercy Medical hopes to have the money pledged in about a year or a year and a half and collected in the next five years

Cancer Patient Flys Over the Rainbow

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A face to face meeting with her favorite movie character was a bit of a surprise for 5 year old Ellen Taylor

Coles Cites `Astounding Results’ From Nexavar Tests: Video

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Dec 16 Bloomberg — Anthony Coles chief executive officer of Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc talks with Bloomberg s Pimm Fox about tests Onyx says show their Nexavar pill extended the lives of women with advanced breast cancer Tumors in two-thirds of women treated with Nexavar and paclitaxel shrank by at least 25 percent and were stable for an average of 8 1 months according to results presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium an international gathering Source Bloomberg