April 5, 2019
Pancreatic cancer patients live five times as long with breakthrough treatment
Telegraph by Sarah Knapton A diagnosis of pancreatic cancer has long been viewed as a death sentence, with less than one per cent of people surviving for five years, and many dying within 12 months. But at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, surgeons have spent seven years trialling a new kind of treatment which is […]
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May 25, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for May 25, 2018
New York Times, Me and My Numb Thumb: A Tale of Tech, Texts and Tendons by Nellie Bowles — …My doctor, who had me make a painful fist, said that I might have something called De Quervain’s Tendinosis, which affects tendons on the thumb side of the wrist and is caused […]
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November 22, 2017
Siouxland man beats the odds of pancreatic cancer
KTIV Siouxland by Jennifer Lenzini “When you’ve been diagnosed with a terminal disease such as pancreatic cancer, it’s like being hit by a train,” said Karl Schenk, Pancreatic Cancer Survivor. “You don’t hear things, because the horn is so loud, you don’t see things because the light is so bright, the pain is immense.”…”It was […]
Tags: Dr. Mark Truty, Karl Schenk, KTIV, pancreatic cancer
November 6, 2015
Mayo Clinic In the News Weekly Highlights
Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Laura Wuotila with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor: Carmen Zwicker NY Times For Statins, Cholesterol Care May Be Just the Start […]
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