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  • Neck and Face Cancers in Los Angeles
    Many in Los Angeles Parathyroidectomy Surgeons where counseled for either a second opinion or for treatment when diagnosed with parathyroid cancer of the neck. Modern more advance techniques such as the MIRP, uses the aid of nuclear mapping to reduce the incision needed to perform the procedure and thus improving the recovery time and scaring.
    Posted: 2010-02-11
    Category: Disease & Illness
  • Vaccines Receive FDA Orphan Drug Designation For Advanced Head And Neck Cancer
    The Food and Drug Administration recently gave a federal orphan drug designation to two experimental vaccines from the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) for advanced head and neck cancer, according to Medical News Net reports this week.
    Posted: 2009-05-04
    Category: Health & Fitness
  • BBC REPORTS ADVANCED ELECTRONIC IMAGING WORKSTATION IN BRITAIN
    Recent BBC reports describe a state-of-the-art electronic workstation that can take video pictures deep inside throats helping cancer patients in Wales, UK. This $78,000 piece of equipment was paid for by the Neath Port Talbot Cancer Challenge and generously given to Singleton Hospital in a region southwest of Wales where they have about 150 cases of head and neck cancers a year, a figure about three times the national average.
    Posted: 2009-04-02
    Category: Health & Fitness
  • Thyroid Cancer – Diagnosis, Symptoms, and Treatment
    The thyroid gland, shaped like a butterfly, sits just below the skin and several thin muscle layers in the lower part of the neck. It's attached to the deeper neck structures (trachea and voice box) and elevates when we swallow.
    Posted: 2009-01-11
    Category: Health & Fitness