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BOSTON — A cancer patient has received the first penis transplant in the United States, a Boston hospital said Monday. Massachusetts General Hospital has confirmed that Thomas Manning of Halifax, Massachusetts, received the transplanted penis in a…
AROUND 50,000 persons in the United States will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this year alone, and about 49,000 others who already have this malignancy would die. That’s how fatal this cancer, the 4th highest cause of…
THE P5-billion Chong Hua Hospital Mandaue and Cancer Center will be launched on Feb. 18. It is fully operational, with 500 doctors on its staff, although only 165 out of 350 hospital beds are being used initially.…
Cancer patients from other provinces in the Visayas and Mindanao do not have to go to Manila to get comprehensive treatment. Chong Hua Hospital Mandaue and Cancer Center at the Mandaue reclamation area has been accepting patients…
LOOKING back in review, there were some fascinating news in medicine this past year, a few of them controversial, especially in infectious diseases and cancer screening and prevention. E-cigarettes are more dangerous A study, published in the…
The mayor’s proposed budget for Cebu City increased its outlay for city-sponsored activities next year but there was no allocation for Christmas activities in 2016 or for free breast cancer screening. The lack was pointed out by…
ON OCT. 29, 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that “the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified the consumption of red meat as probably carcinogenic to humans and processed meat as carcinogenic to humans.“…
After surviving breast cancer 15 years ago, Cristita Villaba realized she needed to convince others that cancer can be overcome. “I was given another lease on life for me to do this mission. When I got cured,…
WILL TOWERS GO? Tears of joy were shed by 44-year-old Cristina Baldomar, who has been battling breast cancer. The Cebu City Council yesterday approved a resolution to revoke special permits issued by the city to Globe Telecom…
BEIJING — Li Xiaohe has set herself up for the long haul in a cramped but sunny room in western Beijing, about a block from China’s most renowned cancer hospital. Her laundry dries on hangers and her…
The vice mayor of San Francisco town, Camotes, Cebu died of cancer yesterday at the Perpetual Succour Hospital in Cebu City. Vice Mayor Allan Arquillano, brother of former San Francisco Mayor Al Arquillano and incumbent San Francisco…
There are many known carcinogens, cancer-causing agents or factors in our environment that damage the DNA in our body cells, transforming normal cells and tissues in our organs to grow uncontrollably and explosively, resulting in cancer which…
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