Cancer Patient’s Photo Wins International Honor: Family Donates $10,000 Prize 
By Catherine Clabby, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Dec. 8–THE PHOTO: A young woman, Katherine Wilson, stands with her dad at their Morganton home. Both are grinning, and both are bald as newborns. Katherine lost her hair to chemotherapy in 2000.
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University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center Doctors Treat Lung and Other Cancers Using Trilogy Image-Guided  
The University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center is among the first cancer centers in the nation to treat patients with Trilogy, a powerful new image-guided radiation therapy system that delivers high-dose radiation to even the smallest tumors.
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Hycamtin (topotecan HCl) Indication Expanded To Include Treatment Of Cervical Cancer In Combination With Chemotherapy 
GlaxoSmithKline plc announced today that the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has granted Marketing Authorisation for HYCAMTIN (topotecan HCl) in combination with cisplatin, for the treatment of patients with carcinoma of the cervix recurrent after radiotherapy and for patients with Stage IVB disease. [click link for full article]
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REASON TO BELIEVESPECIAL STORIES FOR THE HOLIDAYS: Helping others helped her to go on 
After her husband died of lung cancer four years ago, Ilene Simmons didn’t see much reason to go on living.
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Chemical firm ‘paid cancer pioneer’ 
The reputation of Prof Sir Richard Doll, one of Britain’s finest post-war scientists, was under siege yesterday.
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