Chemotherapy

Art show and silent auction for Towson High lymphoma patient set for Friday

2013-06-12 07:36:00

Holding up the Sky, a fundraiser for Towson High student Sky Campbell will be held from 7 p.m.-10 p.m. on Friday, June 14 at the grand opening of Gallery 788's new location near Belvedere Square. Sky,� a 14-year-old West Towson resident, has been...

Tattoo shop to hold fundraiser for little girl battling cancer

2013-05-29 19:42:32

Shauna Quinn is a Columbia native and precious 5-year-old with a winning smile. On Jan. 15, Shauna was diagnosed with Wilm's tumor, also called nephroblastoma, a malignant cancer that originates in the kidneys. She has endured surgeries, hospitalizations,...

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...

HPV-related throat cancers multiplying

2013-05-15 14:39:00

It is well known that HPV (human papillomavirus) can lead to deadly cervical cancer in women, but the virus is causing cancer in men as well. Throat cancers caused by HPV are showing up typically in men with little or no history of smoking, said Dr. Kevin...

Breast cancer: Angelina Jolie starts the conversation

2013-05-15 12:39:44

"Mom. Do you have that gene? Do I? Have you been tested? I thought Grandma had breast cancer. Why weren't you ever tested?" The questions from my 27-year-old daughter were coming fast. Angelina Jolie published an essay in The New York Times on Tuesday,...

Mick Kipp, Pickles bartender and spice-maker, dies

2013-04-30 15:52:00

The mood Tuesday inside Pickles Pub, across from Camden Yards, matched the gray rainy weather. As noontime regulars ate their lunch and quietly caressed glasses of beer amid the low-key chatter and music playing in the background, something clearly...

Congress flies blind

2013-04-29 09:42:00

What does it require to get members of Congress to take action quickly and decisively on an issue of federal spending? Now we know. The possibility that they will be delayed in an airport terminal somewhere waiting for a flight out of town is apparently...

Sinai to research new drug to prevent blood clots, heart attacks in stent patients

2013-04-26 12:10:00

A Sinai Hospital cardiologist is launching a clinical trial of a type of coronary artery disease drug not yet tested in humans, building on a history at the Baltimore hospital of research to develop more effective treatments to prevent blood clotting....

Columbia lung cancer survivor finds voice with 5K fundraiser

2013-04-17 03:00:00

When Columbia resident Michael Osborne was diagnosed with Stage III lung cancer in April of 2008, one prevailing thought kept running through his mind. "I was devastated because, to me, lung cancer meant you were dead," Osborne said. "That's what I knew...

One pitch for Orioles fan, usher Charlie Zill

2013-04-17 18:28:00

Charlie Zill got his wish — and then some. The long-time usher at Camden Yards, who has stage 4 lung cancer, watched his beloved Orioles play one more time Wednesday night. Wearing an Orioles cap and jersey over his trademark "Zillbilly"...

Towson High girls lacrosse team fundraises for schoolmate battling cancer

2013-04-11 13:11:00

Sky Campbell won't be able to attend a fundraiser organized to help her family defray some of the out-of-pocket expenses for her cancer treatment on Saturday, April 13. Instead, the 14-year-old West Towson resident will be undergoing chemotherapy...

Dr. Kenneth B. Kochmann, family physician

2013-03-29 15:20:00

Dr. Kenneth B. Kochmann, a former social worker who became a physician later in life, died March 8 of multiple myeloma at Stella Maris Hospice. He was 63. The son of German immigrant parents — his father was a traveling salesman and his mother a...

Dr. Ijaz I. Arshad, medical director of the Cancer Institute, discusses the new cancer treatment center at Pioneers Memorial Hospital in Brawley on Wednesday. Dr.

2013-05-15 23:38:00

A patient receives chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer at the Antoine-Lacassagne Cancer Center in Nice

2013-05-15 16:42:27

Australian singer Olivia Newton-John, 64, was diagnosed in 1992 and underwent a partial mastectomy and chemotherapy. Her 2005 album, "Stronger than Before" promoted breast cancer awareness.

2013-05-14 05:46:10