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    • ”) increase in the rate of breast cancer when used over 5 years and disappear after discontinuation of therapy. Overall, hormone treatments for menopause increase the quality of life and the life expectancy of postmenopausal women. The article does not mention the well-known increase in the rate …

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    • … treating pain, physicians generally separate acute pain from chronic pain in order to decide upon proper strategies for treatment. We then tend to separate cancer pain from non-cancer pain; perhaps a more useful approach is to separate pain in the presence of limited life expectancy vs pain in a person …

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    • … life expectancy 150 years. If we were able to prevent 90% of naturally occurring medical problems, we’d live to be more than 1,000 years old. We can see the beginnings of this awesome medical revolution today. The field of genetic biotechnology is fueled by the growing arsenal of tools. Drug …

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    • … an incurable cancer of the bone marrow. Her consultant says the drug, which costs around £4,300 for each cycle, could extend the 72-year-old’s life without debilitating side effects. … Mother-of-three Mrs Jones - backed by her family, MP, doctor and cancer charities - appealed on the grounds …

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    • … patients with small cell lung cancer. Without the recommended chemotherapy, a patient ma live less than two weeks with a case of lung cancer in the extensive stage (Cancer Research). Chemotherapy is the treatment for both the extensive and limited stages of lung cancer. The final stage is the recurrent …

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    • … care so that at least some portion of it is a right without granting immortality as a right? ‘You have the right to health care within a natural life span’, but what is ‘natural’? The 40 some odd years that was a hunter gatherers life expectancy and a Somalian can anticipate living? The 80+ years …

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    • … is enlarged. I managed an appointment with Dr. Dunn this afternoon, and it is probably either cancer or (I think I got the right phrase) mammary hyperplasia. Feline mammary cancers have a very bad prognosis–generally they metastasize, and the life expectance is 1-2 years with aggressive treatment …

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    • … aggressive. If it spreads from the lung, life expectancy is … not at all good. Jim took this with his usual good cheer, however, laughing and joking about it. One day when I went to visit him at the hospital, he took me on a tour of the giftshop areas and bought me a Frappucino in the hospital’s …

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    • … the amount of chemicals used in all aspects of life”. Chemicals have brought huge benefits to our quality of life and extended our life expectancy, e.g. through the development of new and improved medicines to combat various diseases which, years ago, caused many early and unnecessary deaths. Indeed …

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    • … bad. These kids can’t have a normal life or a normal life expectancy. “We know it can work. It just takes time and funding.” That’s the reality Joy and Reid continue to face. Before the actual transplant, Payton will have to make several trips back to Minnesota for more tests — with airfare alone …




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