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Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a commercial stage biotechnology company with a primary focus in oncology, and Handok Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd., a fully integrated Korean pharmaceutical company, today announced a collaboration for the development and commercialization of apaziquone in South Korea.

Misdiagnosis: Men complaining of problems diagnosed as prostate issues could actually be suffering from male cystitis The first hint of a problem was back pain.

They help surgeons remove diseased organs a now robots are also building new ones inside the body.

Experts agree that the urological cancer patient will benefit greatly if the delivered treatment is the result of a combined effort.

One year ago, I saw a 70-year-old patient. He had blood in his urine. A workup proved the diagnosis of cancer of the bladder.

Risk of bladder cancer for smokers has increased since the mid-1990s, with a risk progressively increasing to a level five times higher among current smokers in New Hampshire than that among nonsmokers in 2001-2004, according to a new study published online November 16 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute .

Main Category: Urology / Nephrology Also Included In: Cancer / Oncology Article Date: 16 Nov 2009 UroToday.com - Urinary schistosomiasis caused by the trematode parasite Schistosoma haematobium is endemic in most of Africa.

Correspondence: Professor TF rntoft, Department of Molecular Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Brendstrupgaardsvej, Aarhus N, Denmark.

'My short tempers with George are because I need a break,' says Brenda Illey about her 80-year-old husband.

This type is sometimes called renal adenocarcinoma or hypernephroma. Another type of cancer, transitional cell carcinoma, affects the renal pelvis.

THE family of a Mansfield pensioner who suffered complications after surgery have criticised the standard of care he received at King's Mill Hospital.

Researchers have long considered smoking a risk factor for bladder cancer , a disease that strikes about 55,000 Americans each year.

This Veterans Day in the Upstate finds the demand for health care services soaring, with veterans' clinics fairly bursting at the seams and the government promising millions of dollars in local upgrades so that many of the sick and wounded won't have to travel so far for treatment.

BACKGROUND: The National Cancer Institute expects there will be 70,980 new cases of bladder cancer and 14,330 deaths in 2009.

The bladder is a hollow organ in the lower abdomen which collects and stores urine that is produced by the kidneys.

Canadian biopharmaceutical company Bioniche Life Sciences Inc said it received the first milestone payment of US$6-million under a licensing deal with Endo Pharmaceuticals for its experimental bladder cancer drug.

Bioniche Life Sciences Inc. , a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company, today announced financial results for its Fiscal 2010 first quarter, ended September 30, 2009.

Moving from the politics of corporate America to the politics of academic America, and trying to publish so as not to perish.

Main Category: Urology / Nephrology Also Included In: Cancer / Oncology ; Medical Devices / Diagnostics Article Date: 04 Nov 2009 - 6:00 PST Predictive Biosciences Inc.

The NHS is still failing lung cancer patients, according to the results of the first national review of lung cancer services, published this Monday.1 Despite headway in UK lung cancer prevention, disease awareness and screening, key areas such as diagnosis, treatment rates and access to specialists are still 'woefully inadequate' say the UK's ...