Experimental Cancer Vaccine Designed to Help Prevent Malignant Brain Tumors from Recurring

Published October 16, 2010

Experimental Cancer Vaccine Designed to Help Prevent Malignant Brain Tumors from Recurring
Four years ago this month, Mary Lee was diagnosed with the most aggressive type of brain tumor – a glioblastoma multiforme. These tumors are so aggressive and resistant to treatment that median length of survival after diagnosis ranges only from 12 months to 15 months, even when surgery, radiation and chemotherapy are used. Mary underwent surgery to remove a golf ball-size tumor, had a course of …
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Heart of it
Brett Sheridan can do things ordinary human beings and even some extraordinary ones can’t do. He is a skilled heart surgeon at UNC Hospitals – the only one, in fact – and last year he did 19 heart transplants and almost 100 additional surgeries.
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LETTER: Foster Grandparents should be recognized
Foster Grandparents should be recognized
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