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Reasons for D and C
Dilation and curettage, or D & C for short, is a procedure that is used to diagnose and treat a number of womens health conditions. What are some goals of a D and C and why would you need one?
Liver Cancer Diagnosis
Should you be screened for liver cancer? How do doctors test for liver cancer and what can you expect? More on diagnostic tests and procedures.
Kidney Stones Treatment
Make sure to see a doctor for more info on kidney stone treatments. While most pass out of the body on their own, some won’t go away by themselves.
Brain cancer
Brain basics here - what is a tumor and how do doctors understand brain cancer?
Cancer
Millions of Americans are diagnosed with cancer. But what exactly is cancer and how does it affect the body?
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New treatment discovered for severe form of skin cancer
A capsule can shrink tumors formed by advanced basal cell carcinoma. The breakthrough discovery was presented at the European Cancer Conference held in Stockholm on Saturday.
Suit claims doctor wrongly removed healthy ovary
Woman says she now faces second surgery An Ellicott City obstetrician is accused of botching a woman's surgery last year, removing a healthy ovary and fallopian tube on the patient's right side when the doctor was supposed to excise a cyst on the left, ac
Neurosurgeon Gives Thanks To His Science Teacher
As a middle-school student in the '80s, Lee Buono stayed after school one day to remove the brain and spinal cord from a frog. He did such a good job that his science teacher told him he might be a neurosurgeon someday. That's exactly what Buono did.
Suit claims doctor removed healthy ovary
BALTIMORE, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- A Maryland woman has filed a lawsuit against an Ellicott City obstetrician, accusing her of wrongly removing a healthy ovary, documents show.
Inflammation marker may guide prognosis for prostate cancer
(Medical Xpress) -- Current methods of prostate cancer detection, like the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, often fail to identify which cancers will prove fatal and which cancers will remain benign until a patient dies of other causes.