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Fluoridated water plan for Geelong and Ballarat  -  25 Mar 2008
The Age,...could be harmful — with possible effects including decreased IQ and osteosarcoma in young males — while it had minimal impact on preventing tooth decay.

"On the Road" with the original florida kid  -  25 Mar 2008
Truck.Net (press release),Young 12 yr. old Chance has osteosarcoma, a bone cancer, and he's undergoing extensive treatments for it. His folks Jennifer and Jim Jr. along with his 3

Epeius Biotechnologies Awarded US Patent for Targeted Injectable ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Send2Press (press release),Additionally, a Phase II Registration Protocol is underway for chemo-resistant osteosarcoma in Los Angeles, California. Epeius Biotechnologies Corporation

IDM Pharma Announces Availability of Mifamurtide (L-MTP-PE ...  -  Mar 20, 2008
Lifescience-online,..."This compassionate access study is designed to meet an unmet treatment need by providing L-MTP-PE access to high-risk osteosarcoma patients for whom

IDM Pharma Announces Availability Of Mifamurtide (L-MTP-PE ...  -  Mar 22, 2008
Medical News Today (press release),..."This compassionate access study is designed to meet an unmet treatment need by providing L-MTP-PE access to high-risk osteosarcoma patients for whom

Immunostimulant MTP Improves Survival in Pediatric Osteosarcoma  -  Mar 5, 2008
Cancer Consultants,1 Osteosarcoma is a disease of younger individuals that is treated with surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. Patients with complete surgical resection

Teenage girl trying to cope with osteosarcoma  -  Mar 6, 2008
North Brunswick Sentinel,...at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: doctors found a tumor in her leg, and she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a malignant bone cancer.

Ziopharm Unveils Promising Early Data From Phase Ib Study Of ...  -  Mar 20, 2008
RTT News,Children's Oncology Group report shows the addition of L-MTP-PE to chemotherapy reduced the risk of death by 30% in osteosarcoma patients.

R&D Costs Expand Spectrum's 2007 Loss  -  Mar 14, 2008
Houston Chronicle,Its osteosarcoma drug Levoleucovorin received Food and Drug Administration approval on March 7, and the company plans to launch it in June.

UPDATE 1-Spectrum bone cancer drug approved by US FDA  -  Mar 7, 2008
ReutersO: Quote, Profile, Research) Levoleucovorin as a treatment for osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer, the company said on Friday.

Market Report -- In Play (IDMI)  -  Mar 20, 2008
MSN Money...with the US Food and Drug Administration, which provides mifamurtide to eligible, high-risk osteosarcoma patients through a compassionate access study.

The GP said I'd torn ligaments - in fact, it was bone cancer  -  Mar 17, 2008
Daily Mail,She was suffering from osteosarcoma, a rare bone cancer that affects just two in a million people. "We see only about 120 cases of osteosarcoma a year,"

Show your support - be blue for a day  -  Mar 19, 2008
Portsmouth News,During his battle against osteosarcoma the support of the football club was a constant source of inspiration to him, and he became a firm favourite with the

Spectrum Pharma: FDA approves Levoleucovorin for injection; sees ...  -  Mar 7, 2008
CNNMoney.comThe drug is indicated after high-dose methotrexate therapy in patients with osteosarcoma, and to diminish the toxicity and counteract the effects of

Spring Grove School lends a hand, and kitchen, for student  -  Mar 11, 2008
Hollister Free Lance,By Kristen Tolleson This Thursday night, Spring Grove School will be hold a fundraiser dinner for seventh-grade student Diana Magana, who has osteosarcoma.

Spectrum’s Levoleucovorin Approved by FDA  -  Mar 17, 2008
FDA news (subscription),The FDA approved an NDA for Spectrum’s Levoleucovorin for injection as a treatment for osteosarcoma and to lessen toxicity and other effects from impaired

FORSTEO(R) Receives Positive Opinion from the European Committee ...  -  Feb 25, 2008
Lifescience-online,In these studies, teriparatide caused some rats to develop osteosarcoma, a bone cancer. Osteosarcoma in humans is a serious but very rare cancer.

Limb salvage surgery done in Coimbatore  -  Mar 15, 2008
Newindpress,The patient was diagnosed with agressive bone cancer called Osteosarcoma and for which the standard treatment is amputation of limbs.

Same Process Discovered To Both Form Skeleton And Protect It For Life  -  Mar 12, 2008
Science Daily (press release)..."In addition, normal Notch signaling appears to make bones stronger, but too much of it could result in osteosarcoma, the most common primary malignant bone

Dayton’s merchant Stirratt remembered  -  Mar 5, 2008
Home Textiles Today,22 after battling osteosarcoma. Stirratt spent 26 years at the former Dayton’s Department Stores, beginning as a trainee and rising to evp of home

Concert to Benefit BYU Cancer Patients  -  Mar 4, 2008
BYU Newsnet,By April Palmer Chalk Daniel Hedlund, a BYU advertising major, was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma a bone cancer, last semester only a few weeks after he got

Reflecting on pet-ownership  -  Mar 3, 2008
The Free Lance-Star,In May of 2004, Kirby lost his sudden and brief battle with osteosarcoma, the most common form of bone cancer. It occurs most frequently in large-breed dogs

Florid Reactive Periostitis Ossificans of the Distal Ulna  -  Mar 10, 2008
Ortho SuperSite,In view of the possibility of osteosarcoma, a biopsy of the lesion was performed. Figure 3: Axial T1-weighted spin-echo MRI after gadolinium injection shows

Get well wishes for JJ  -  Feb 27, 2008
Munster Times,Arriving directly from Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago where JJ undergoes chemotherapy for osteosarcoma, the Golubs met with more

'Different sides of the Beast'  -  Mar 22, 2008
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,A month later the tumor was diagnosed as osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer, Mahokey said. An oncologist at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh guided

Allergan Passes Pfizer Acquisition Test, Analyst Says  -  Mar 22, 2008
Orange County Business Journal,The drug is going to be used to treat osteosarcoma, a form of bone cancer. In a release, Spectrum said it expected to have levoleucovorin commercially

Students Shave Heads To Conquer Cancer  -  Mar 21, 2008
INDYchannel.com,A malignant mass called osteosarcoma was spreading in his thigh. To stop it, Chamness endured several operations to remove the diseased bone.

Francis Bouillon launches the 2008 Step Up for the Children with ...  -  Mar 20, 2008
Trading Markets (press release),Valérie is currently battling osteosarcoma, a form of cancer, which led to the partial amputation of one of her legs. "On June 14, 2008, I will participate

Sales of Custom Designed Collars Raise Money for Canine Cancer Cure  -  Mar 5, 2008
PR Web (press release),Janet started Hope for Hounds after one of her favorite hounds died of osteosarcoma, the most common cancer found in large-breed dogs including Greyhounds

Cancer brings teenagers, community together for an outpouring of ...  -  Mar 1, 2008
The Times-Herald,Weaver was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, the most common type of bone cancer, more likely to be found in younger males. Most osteosarcomas come from random

Premarket Mover: Axcelis Up on New Bid  -  Mar 10, 2008
Houston Chronicle,...after the Food and Drug Administration late Friday approved its Levoleucovorin injectable drug as a treatment for the bone cancer, osteosarcoma.

Jason Weinland: Enthusiasm pervades local athletes  -  Mar 18, 2008
Shreveport Times,Amanda Bell, the 14-year-old daughter of local triathlete Greg Bell, has been diagnosed with osteosarcoma. She has receiving her treatments at St. Jude's in

Teen triumphs after tragedy  -  Mar 17, 2008
Athens Messenger,When Sara was 10, she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma - a type of bone cancer common in children. What started out as sharp pangs in her right leg resulted

Three Small and Grim New French Novels  -  Feb 26, 2008
Village Voice,Seventeen-year-old Frederick Langlois suffers from an osteosarcoma that is turning his hip bones into lace. Stuck in the children's wing of a Montreal

Study links night lighting to breast cancer  -  Feb 25, 2008
Indianapolis Star,...will sponsor its annual comedy fundraiser on Friday, featuring headliner Scott Burton, a world-class juggler and comedian and osteosarcoma survivor.

Saturday 15 in Cuba, Terry Fox Marathon of Hope  -  Mar 14, 2008
Cuba Headlines,...also pay tribute to Canadian Terry Fox who started the first race on April 12, 1980, 3 years after losing his leg at the age of 18 from osteosarcoma.

Two Women Fight One Battle  -  Mar 13, 2008
Dunn Daily Record,..."Osteosarcoma is what I had. It's bone cancer." Before undergoing any operations, Mrs. McLamb had to endure chemotherapy in order to shrink her tumor.

Determination Keeps Kossmann at High Level in Racing  -  Mar 13, 2008
Grand-Am,After about a month, he visited another doctor, where he was diagnosed with an osteosarcoma, a very aggressive type of bone cancer.

Disabled father's desperate hunt for home for ill son  -  Mar 12, 2008
Advertiser 24,Philip Cole, aged 37, of Wyedale, London Colney, recently learned that his son Kyle, aged 14, had the bone cancer osteosarcoma and would need a wheelchair

Unusual Radiologic Presentation of Monostotic Fibrous Dysplasia  -  Mar 10, 2008
Ortho SuperSite,...eosinophilic granuloma, nonossifying fibroma, chondromyxoid fibroma, and malignancies such as Ewing sarcoma and low-grade central osteosarcoma.

Unusual 11 Mid-Day Movers 3/10: TCM, NFS, IOM Higher; KERX, TMA ...  -  Mar 10, 2008
StreetInsider.com (subscription),It is indicated after high-dose methotrexate therapy in patients with osteosarcoma, and to diminish the toxicity and counteract the effects of impaired

ALSO NOTED: Pfizer's Kindler can't quash mega-deal talk; FDA to ...  -  Mar 10, 2008
FierceBiotech,Report > The FDA has approved Spectrum Pharmaceuticals' Levoleucovorin for injection after high-dose methotrexate therapy in patients with osteosarcoma.

Boy wins his cancer battle  -  Mar 10, 2008
Wigan Today,By David Taylor James Sandifer has endured two years of hell - at just 11 years old the Lowton High School pupil was diagnosed with osteosarcoma – a

FDA Approves New Drug Application (NDA) for LEVOleucovorin ...  -  Mar 7, 2008
InfoBolsa,LEVOleucovorin is indicated after high-dose methotrexate therapy in patients with osteosarcoma, and to diminish the toxicity and counteract the effects of

Lombardi Cancer Center's Toretsky awarded prestigious Burroughs ...  -  Mar 7, 2008
EurekAlert (press release),In addition to Ewing's sarcoma, his clinical interests include rare pediatric hematology diseases and childhood cancers, in particular osteosarcoma (bone

CSU vet to speak to human doctors  -  Mar 7, 2008
The Coloradoan,So in Fort Collins, working with pet owners, Withrow and his fellow researchers are developing new ways to fight osteosarcoma in dogs and sharing those

Phase I/II Studies of IMC-A12 in Pediatric Cancer Patients ...  -  Mar 5, 2008
Business Wire (press release),The Phase II study will evaluate the antitumor activity of IMC-A12 in multiple pediatric malignancies, including osteosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma/peripheral

Veteran Leon High teacher gets support in battle against cancer  -  Mar 5, 2008
Tallahassee Democrat,She has fibroblastic osteosarcoma, an aggressive bone cancer that was diagnosed in September. The group hadn't seen each other since the school's pep rally

Daily Dose: Cancer survivor takes cause to Congress  -  Mar 4, 2008
Topeka Capital Journal (subscription),Alexis was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, or bone cancer, in the fall of 2006, when she was 6 years old. In January 2007, Templeton removed Alexis' right leg

Golfers aid teenagers  -  Mar 3, 2008
ChronicleLive,...who have lost their battle with cancer, in particular Fliss Graham from Gilsland, who was just 22 when she lost her battle with osteosarcoma last year.

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