U.S. HHS: Radiation treatment for eye cancer does not change patients' five-year survival
M2 PRESSWIRE-16 June 1998-U.S. HHS: Radiation treatment for eye cancer does not change patients' five-year survival (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:150698 Researchers found that patients with large eye melanomas had similar five-year survival rates regardless of whether they were treated
Routine exams urged to detect rare cancer of the eye
In the Mountain West, about six young children will be diagnosed this year with retinoblastoma, a rare eye cancer. The disease had phones ringing at area hospitals and eye clinics Thursday, the day after the story broke that Utah Jazz player Derek Fisher's infant daughter, Tatum, is being treated
THE BOY WHO DEFIED ODDS; Brave Theo lost one of his eyes but still beat cancer.
Byline: CHARLOTTE WARD WHEN little Theo Hayeck was diagnosed with eye cancer at the age of just two, his parents were warned he was one of the worst cases doctors had ever come across. Over the next 12 months Theo, from Shrewsbury, Shropshire, endured numerous operations and lost his right eye as
Fed: Eye cancer phone link dubious: Cancer Council
AAP General News (Australia) 01-15-2001 Fed: Eye cancer phone link dubious: Cancer Council By Anthony Stavrinos SYDNEY, Jan 15 AAP - New research linking mobile phones to eye cancer should be taken with a grain of salt, a Sydney cancer expert said today. While most fears about mobile phones in
Lawton woman participates in clinical trials to aid fight against cancer of the eye.
Byline: Jeff Raymond Apr. 5-When Hope Mason learned she had cancer, she didn't get scared. When she learned she'd lose her right eye, she didn't become bitter. When doctors at a clinical trial injected an experimental medicine, she didn't worry. The 52-year-old Lawton mother of two is sure she's
Grandmother pushes for eye exams for children: 3-year-old boy's cancer death; could have been prevented
LAKE WORTH, Fla. - The signs of cancer were in the photos. The chubby, golden-haired toddler wore a big smile as he sat on Santa's lap. But unknown to his family, the white dot captured on film in his right eye was a tumor reflecting light. Eight months later, the boy was diagnosed with a rare eye
The mother and children who all beat eye cancer; 'We feel very lucky': Kirsteen Carmichael with Beth and Ross.
Byline: LUCY LAING WHEN Kirsteen Carmichael won her battle with the eye cancer that hasblighted her family for generations, she prayed that her nightmare was behindher. But then both her children were diagnosed with the disease and faced the sameagonising battle to save their sight. Mrs Carmichael,
Future is bright for little cancer fighter; Ellis, 2, learning to live with his new artificial eye.
Byline: By SOPHIE DOUGHTY BRAVE Ellis Hicks is battling back after losing an eye to cancer. The two-year-old is now learning to cope with the artificial eye that doctors fitted after discovering his damaged retina could not be saved. Ellis was diagnosed with retinablas-toma - a cancer which affects
New Laboratory Model Can Be Used to Test New Treatments for Pediatric Eye Cancer; St. Jude scientists publish findings in Cell Cycle.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 7 /PRNewswire/ - The development of a mouse model that closely mimics the human eye cancer retinoblastoma, gives investigators a way to test new therapies for this disease in the laboratory for the first time. These findings are published by investigators at St. Jude
A sight for sore eyes; Courage: Beth in hospital with mother Kirsteen Eye contact: Mrs Carmichael with Beth and Ross. They have all beaten eye cancer.
Byline: LUCY LAING WHEN Kirsteen Carmichael won her battle with eye cancer as a child, sheprayed that she had seen the last of the disease. But her worst fears came true when both her children were diagnosed with thesame condition, which has blighted her family for generations. But the future is
