A beautiful nine-year-old girl from Southlake, Texas, got married a few days ago, in what parents said it was her final wish before she died. Jayla Cooper is suffering from late-stage leukemia, and doctors say that she only has a couple of weeks more to live. The little girl knows this and she asked her parents to do... |
27 February 2009
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Neuroblastoma, a form of cancer that manifests mostly in infants, affects about 600 newborns in the United States every year. Doctors suspected that a few specific genes were responsible for the development of the disease, but until now they had no solid leads to follow in their research. An international team manage... |
16 October 2008
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The price of vanity in the modern, ever-changing era in which we live may be even higher than we can imagine. A study publish a short while ago warns men and women that using hair dye more than nine times a year increases by 60% the risk of developing chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, which is a form of cancer of the bl... |
9 May 2008
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Leukemia is one of the main killer cancers in children. In the last 50 years, medical advance has boosted survival rate from 0 % to 90 %, but the aggressive chemotherapy comes with a high price caused by the secondary effects. Still, hope comes with a new research published in the journal Science and made on four-yea... |
18 January 2008
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YouTube was recently the only hope for life for a N.H. woman diagnosed with leukemia. Leigh Buckley, a 32-year-old mother of two, fights against leukemia since January when the doctors diagnosed her with this deadly disease. Since the terrible announcement was confirmed, Leigh's friends decided to organize two l... |
28 March 2007
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