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SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- Curative therapy is still a possibility, even if a colon cancer patient is seen for the first time in the emergency department with acute symptoms, researchers said here.

(Georgetown University Medical Center) In a major step that could revolutionize biomedical research, scientists have discovered a way to keep normal cells as well as tumor cells taken from an individual cancer patient alive in the laboratory -- which previously had not been possible.

Normal cells usually die in the lab after dividing only a few times, and many common cancers will not grow, unaltered, outside of the body.

(MedPage Today) -- A 36-year-old cancer patient is the recipient of the first-ever bioartificial trachea grown on a synthetic substrate using the patient's own stem cells, researchers at the Karolinska Institute announced.

A cancer-stricken teen too sick to attend school earned her diploma in the hospital, where teachers and staff paid tribute yesterday at a one-person graduation ceremony.

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) -- The Montana Supreme Court has delayed an order that a cancer patient undergo a hysterectomy to give her time to appeal a finding that she is not mentally competent to make such a decision....

Patient trials of a new drug for skin cancer have shown that the drug slows the spread of skin cancer in half of all patients with advanced malignant melanoma.

ROSEVILLE, Mich. (AP) -- A Michigan woman accused of drugging her 12-year-old son to make it appear he was a cancer patient will stand trial....

(Technische Universitaet Muenchen) Researchers at TUM, the Technische Universitaet Muenchen, have developed a new test process -- using lab-on-a-chip technology -- for establishing whether or not a cancer patient's tumor cells will respond to a particular drug.

Such sensor biochips could potentially be used in the future to aid in rapid identification of the most effective medication for individual patients.

I am both an unlucky and a lucky cancer patient. I am unlucky because the cancer I have, melanoma, is aggressive, complex and difficult to treat, and mine has spread from a mole on my skin, through my bloodstream, to my brain.