Mexican Woman Reunited With Son Dies
A terminally ill Mexican woman reunited with her son after six years apart has died. The family of Marta Perez Martinez said the 31-year-old woman died Friday. Martinez, suffering from colon cancer, was reunited with her 13-year-old son Irvin Vega on Tuesday. Martinez left her rural Mexican village in 2004 to find work on Long Island. Irvin stayed [ ]
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Idera Pharmaceuticals Announces Publication of Study of Toll-Like Receptor 9 Agonist in Combination with Avastin(R) in ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.----Idera Pharmaceuticals today announced the publication of preclinical data demonstrating that its Toll-like Receptor 9 agonist in combination with bevacizumab, the anti-vascular endothelial growth factor monoclonal antibody, resulted in co-operative anti-tumor activity in animal models of colon cancer.
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Seventeenth-century couple left US cancer legacy
A married couple who sailed to America around 1630 may have left their descendants at higher risk of a form of colon cancer
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Ballet great Stanley Holden dies at age 79
Famed ballet dancer Stanley Holden has died at age 79. His stepdaughter says Holden died Friday of complications from heart problems and colon cancer at Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center in Thousand Oaks.
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