Liver Cancer

Checkmate Cancer in HdG on Saturday

2013-05-17 06:55:00

Harford County residents are being asked to support two worthy fundraisers to benefit two families of sick children. The fundraisers are to benefit the family of a 9-year-old boy, who's been battling cancer, and the other to benefit the family whose 4...

Bob Turley, former Orioles pitcher, dies

2013-03-30 14:39:00

Bob Turley, a hard-throwing right-hander who won the Orioles’ first home game, died of liver cancer early Saturday morning, according to his son Terry Turley. He was 82. Turley pitched one season for the Orioles in 1954, their first in Baltimore,...

Hopkins team explains owls' head-turning abilities

2013-02-22 15:25:00

Owls can rotate their heads a dizzying 270 degrees, allowing them to see what's happening behind them while perched on a tree branch or barn beam. This evolutionary adaptation helps the birds keep their fixed-socket, binocular eyes trained on the...

Little miracles: Columbia's The Little Things for Cancer supports patients and their caregivers

2013-02-04 09:46:00

As a caregiver, Richard DeCaro knows that a little kindness goes a long way. And now he has a local nonprofit organization to thank for making his life a little easier. The Dorsey’s Search resident began taking care of his wife, Ellen, in 2008...

Rosemary E. Allulis, lawyer

2013-01-18 13:21:08

Rosemary E. Allulis, a lawyer and world traveler who was also a photographer and musician, died Tuesday of liver cancer at her Villa Cresta home. She was 52. "She was a genius. She had a fast mind and was such a good writer," said Sidney Friedman, a...

Harford Friends eighth-graders visit Johns Hopkins HeLa Lab

2013-01-15 06:57:40

At Harford Friends School, an unusual field trip for middle school resulted from an equally unusual assignment for Cheryl Foley's science class: reading and discussing "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks." Eighth-graders from Harford Friends School...

Hampden Family Center plays Santa to children who need help at holidays

2012-12-10 07:09:00

Blayr Callaway, 19, who is raising her 8-year-old niece as well as her 2-year-old daughter, was in a familiar setting, at the Hampden Family Center's annual Holiday Party. It's the center Callaway comes to throughout the year for social services ranging...

Mary Love Mezzanotte, lawyer

2012-12-17 11:59:00

Mary Love Mezzanotte, a registered nurse who later became a lawyer, died Thursdayof liver cancer at her West Friendship home. She was 56. The daughter of a career naval officer and a homemaker, Mary Love Green was born in the Canal Zone in Panama and...

Rita Le Gette, former teacher, homemaker

2012-10-08 00:00:00

Rita Frances Le Gette, a former teacher and homemaker, died Thursday of liver cancer at her Severna Park home, surrounded by her family. She was 74. Friends described a woman always willing to put others before herself and lend a helping hand. "When...

Taneytown foundation give $5M to Carroll hospital, hospice campaign

2012-09-22 14:41:00

Carroll Hospital Center and Carroll Hospice announced this week that the Taneytown-based Kahlert Foundation has donated $5 million to the "Campaign to Cure & Comfort, Always," a $22 million community fundraising initiative. This is the first multi-...

Baby boomers unknowingly infected with hepatitis C

2012-07-06 16:10:00

When Alan Shackelford's ankles would swell up, he brushed it off as another sign of getting older — only to find out it was a symptom of something much worse. The 59-year-old Windsor Mill man was shocked when his doctor recently diagnosed him...

Breakthrough of the week: Weed-based cancer drug

2012-07-21 00:00:00

Description: Researchers have developed an anti-cancer drug that can travel through the bloodstream and act solely on specific cancer proteins. The drug comes from a weed known as Thapsia garganica, which grows in Mediterranean countries and has for...

Make-A-Wish Foundation recipient Dashiell Codd, 5, of Iowa, far right, with his mother Pam, father Brian, brother Sumner, 8, and family dog Cider at a beach house in Newport Beach on Thursda. Codd is currently battling liver cancer.

2013-02-21 00:00:00

The undisputed World Heavyweight Champion died of liver cancer in 2011. He was 67.

2012-09-05 08:37:09

Pat Simons, standing in the second row with the tan blazer, poses with classmates from South Hagerstown High School Class of 1972 during a fundraiser in his honor earlier this month. Simons is battling liver cancer and awaiting a liver transplant.

2012-04-25 18:25:00