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By Julie Bykowicz | June 8, 2009
Men in suits and women in high heels swirled on the ballroom dance floor at Martin's West as a big band played and candelabras shone on a sea of dinner tables. Dr. Diana Griffiths of St. Agnes Hospital had to concentrate on faces to recognize her cancer patients. "I'm so used to seeing people in a hospital setting," she said. "This is real life." Hospitals and cancer support groups across Maryland participated in National Cancer Survivors Day on Sunday, a time set aside to celebrate the 12 million Americans who have overcome the disease.
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By Stephanie Desmon | June 8, 2009
The case was fairly routine: The patient felt a lump smaller than a pea, had a mammogram, got a diagnosis of breast cancer and quickly underwent a mastectomy. What was different is this patient was a man - Mike Nelsen, a 49-year-old high-level sales executive who never saw himself at risk."I remember distinctly sitting in a conference room when my cell phone rang," Nelsen said recently. It was his doctor, so Nelsen walked out into the hall to hear the news. "I guess I don't get shocked by a lot but I didn't even think men could have breast cancer.
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By Stephanie Desmon | February 19, 2009
In a discovery that researchers hope could lead to better treatments for intractable brain tumors, scientists from Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Duke University Medical Center have found a genetic defect in a large number of common brain cancers and believe it could hold clues to why some people with the disease fare better than others. The findings, published in today's New England Journal of Medicine, could ultimately help determine biologically how deadly a tumor is, providing far more information than what doctors can now learn by examining these cancers under a microscope.
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By Susan Gvozdas | December 11, 2008
Bobbie Burnett proudly displays the different designs her stained-glass angels have taken over the past 26 years. She gave her first angel as a gift to a friend with leukemia. Then she started selling angels to pay for Susie Lyttle's care. Burnett contributed only $200 to Lyttle before she died in 1983. Now Burnett has a loftier goal spelled out in gold lettering in the middle of the wall where her angels stand watch: to reach $1 million in total donations. Her 90 volunteers, who rotate shifts in her Annapolis studio three days a week, make angel figurines and pins, along with sun catchers of birds, flowers and other images.
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October 23, 2008
Anne Arundel Medical Center has appointed Dr. Barry R. Meisenberg, the former head of the hematology-oncology division at the University of Maryland's Cancer Center, as the new director of its Geaton and JoAnn DeCesaris Cancer Institute. Martin L. Doordan, president and CEO of Anne Arundel Health System, said the hiring of Meisenberg reinforces the medical system's commitment to excellence in oncology care. "Recruiting a physician of national caliber such as Dr. Meisenberg was only possible because of the overall excellence of our programs, talent of our medical and nursing staffs and investment in our facilities," Doordan said.
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May 30, 2008
Office of Planning to close today so it can move The county Office of Planning will be closed from noon today until Monday morning to enable it to move to new quarters. The office will be located in Suite 101 of the Jefferson Building, 105 W. Chesapeake Ave. in Towson. The office's phone numbers will remain the same. Because of the move, the Planning Board has canceled a meeting scheduled for Thursday. The next board meeting will be June 19 in Hearing Room 102 of the Jefferson Building.
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By Jacques Kelly | September 15, 2007
Dr. Martin D. Abeloff, an internationally recognized oncologist who led the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center for 15 years, died of leukemia yesterday at the hospital where he spent most of his professional career. The Mount Washington resident was 65. An advocate of mammography as a means of reducing breast cancer mortality rates, he spent much of his professional career working to apply research findings to everyday medicine. Under his leadership, some 30,000 outpatients visited his center a year.
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By Judy Peres, Chris Emery and Michael Stroh | December 15, 2006
SAN ANTONIO -- Significantly fewer American women were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003, and a drastic drop in the use of hormone therapy is the most likely reason, researchers reported yesterday. Breast cancer diagnoses dropped by 7 percent overall and by about 15 percent in women over 50, the group most likely to have been taking hormone therapy before a well-publicized federal warning scared millions into stopping in 2002. It won't be certain that the decreases are not an aberration until April, when figures for 2004 are released.
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By Jonathan Bor | November 17, 2006
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins has been awarded $20 million to further its research into the genetic underpinnings of cancer. Coming two months after Hopkins researchers reported that they had sequenced the genomes of colon and breast tumors, the grant will help them explore the genetics of several other tumor types. "It's clear that the best way to understand the nature of cancer and how it occurs is through the study of genetic alterations," said Dr. Bert Vogelstein, who co-directs a cancer genetics laboratory with Dr. Kenneth Kinzler.
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June 26, 2006
On June 21, 2006, THOMAS JOSEPH, JR., beloved son of the late THOMAS JOSEPH CASE, SR., and Dorothy Alice Barber Case; loving husband of Jacqueline T. Schrenker-Case; devoted father of daughter Courtney Taylor Case; brother of Sharon C. Amen; and uncle of niece Jennifer Anderson and nephew Brad Wash. A Memorial Service will be held on Friday June 30, 2006 at 1:00 P.M. at Grace Lutheran Church, 21 Carroll St., Westminster, MD 21157. Interment will be private. Memorial contributions may be made in his memory to the Kimmel Cancer Center, c/o John Hopkins Cancer Center, 100 N. Charles Street, 1 Charles Center, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21201.