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Cancer’s Juvenescence: An Incoming Tide and the Urgent Need for a Paradigm Shift

The Health Care Blog

markets, overseeing large physician networks and other health systems, including so-called Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) that oversee the care of tens of thousands of attributed patients. The first occurred in October 2005 when I was diagnosed at 49 with advanced-stage bladder cancer. If the trial results are positive, the U.K.s

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NC House bill would expand access to early screening for prostate cancer 

NC Health News

Kenneth died in 2005. Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in North Carolina men, according to the UNC Chapel Hill Mens Health Program. The antigen is produced both by normal and malignant cells of the prostate gland, according to the National Institute of Health. The state ranked 11th highest in the U.S.