Cancer-fighting transplant hope
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Immune cells taken from one person may be able to join the battle against cancer in another, says a researcher.
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Katy Scivyer is living proof that transplant medicine has come a long way in the 50 years since the world&#39;s first successful human organ transplant.
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Eddie Knipp's two heart transplants have given him the wisdom to savor the small wonders of life and the strength to endure one of its largest losses &#151; the death of a child. On Tuesday, Knipp and nine other heart transplant recipients celebrated more than 20 years of survival after surgery at the place that made it possible: the Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital.
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Many cancer survivors say they are committed to helping others with the disease or to solve a particular problem that they encountered in their own treatment.
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Scientists have identified a way of tackling hard-to-treat breast cancers.
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A Virginia teenage cancer patient appears to be improving less than a month after he won a court fight to forgo chemotherapy and seek alternative treatments, his doctor said Friday.
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Doctors are hopeful about a new drug to treat skin cancer by causing tumor cells to self-destruct by overloading them with oxygen.
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Pia Awal was in the midst of planning her October wedding when a routine doctor's visit brought devastating news. After more than a year of remission, her cancer was back. Now mid-October marks a different kind of milestone &#151; the time by which doctors say Awal, who has acute myelogenous leukemia, must receive a lifesaving stem cell, or bone marrow, transplant.
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A Holland woman who owes the past six years of her life to a heart transplant is now awaiting a kidney transplant. Brenda Veenman, 60, was added to the University of Michigan&#39;s kidney transplant list Dec.
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It may be possible to save more lives by reversing drug resistance in lung cancer patients, say scientists.
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LOS ANGELES -- In what's being called a major advance in organ transplants, doctors say they have developed a technique that could free many patients from having to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their lives.
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A vaccine to help patients fend of blood cancers could be a reality in the near future.
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For two decades, scientists have raced to carry out the first successful ovary transplant in women. The goal has not been to &quot;reverse the menopause&quot;, but to restore
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Doctors are hopeful about a new drug to treat skin cancer by causing tumor cells to self-destruct by overloading them with oxygen
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One of four brothers diagnosed with a rare disease is re-admitted to hospital following a transplant.
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The latest scientific news is about fighting aging, heart disease, and cancer.
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Man's best friend could also be a  lifesaver in the fight against cancer.