Docs Grow New Jawbone for Cancer Survivor
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NEW YORK  - In a new study, researchers describe a man whose jaw was successfully reconstructed using a bone that was grown from scratch under the muscles in his back.
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Researchers are developing a tooth implant which automatically releases medicine.
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LONDON - A German man was able to chow down on a brastwurst sandwich after surgeons grew a new jaw bone on his back muscle and transplanted the bone to his mouth.
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German scientists have repaired the severely damaged skull of a 7-year-old girl using stem cells derived from body fat. The wound in the child&#39;s skull was too large to treat with conventional bone grafts.
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An $18 million grant awarded to the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy will help in the treatment of bone marrow cancer and in the search for a cure, doctors say.
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At a time when more people are cured of cancer than ever before, fewer doctors seem willing to say so.
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Josh Sundquist was 9 years old when doctors discovered cancer in the bones of his left leg. He was given a 50 percent chance of survival.
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A German who had his lower jaw cut out because of cancer has enjoyed his first meal in nine years -- a bratwurst sandwich -- after surgeons grew a new jaw bone in his back muscle and transplanted it to his mouth in what experts
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For the first time, doctors have used stem cells from liposuctioned fat to fix breast defects in women who have had cancerous lumps removed
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Cancer was the biotech's biggest success story. Now to keep growing, it needs to branch out.
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Doctors treat a baby with brittle bone disease while she is still in the womb, using stem cell technology.
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after doctors rebuilt his jaw by growing another one on his back. Four weeks after the pioneering operation, the man was able to tuck in to a sausage sandwich .
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Osteoporosis drug could give the company its next big winner.
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A German who had his lower jaw cut out because of cancer has enjoyed his first meal in nine years -- a bratwurst sandwich -- after surgeons grew a new jaw bone in his back muscle and transplanted it to his ...
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The New York LifeLab is one of several groups that have sprung up to address the unique needs of young adults who have survived cancer.
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Technology that doctors expect will help detect precancerous cells faster and less painfully also could someday take cameras to parts of the body where no camera has gone before.
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Scientists have said they discovered that mouth cancer cells develop along distinct &quot;mortal&quot; and &quot;immortal&quot; pathways -- an insight which could help curb the disease at its early stages.