Archive for the ‘Liver Cancer’ Category

Black Liver Cancer Patients Face Worst Odds

27th January 2010 by admin No Comments

Even though they receive equal treatment, black patients with liver cancer have lower survival rates than patients of other races, a new U.S. study finds.
Researchers analyzed data from 20,920 patients in the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) registry who were diagnosed with liver cancer between 1973 and 2004. The researchers [...]

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HIV Patients More Prone to 7 Kinds of Cancer

8th October 2009 by admin 5 Comments

Study found early treatment of infection could slow start of malignancies

– Robert Preidt
The weakened immune systems of people with HIV puts them at increased risk for at least seven types of cancer, but early diagnosis and treatment of HIV infection could help delay the onset of some of these cancers, a new study suggests.
French researchers [...]

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Hospital Worker May Have Exposed Patients to Hepatitis

7th July 2009 by admin 5 Comments

A former hospital employee may have exposed hundreds, or even thousands, of surgical patients to hepatitis C after taking their fentanyl injections and replacing them with used syringes filled with saline solution, authorities say.

A hospital worker has admitted to secretly injecting herself and using unclean syringes for patients.

Kristen Diane Parker, who worked at Rose Medical [...]

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