Neoadjuvant therapy aims to reduce the size or extent of the cancer before using radical treatment intervention, thus making procedures easier and more likely to succeed, and reducing the consequences of a more extensive treatment technique that would be required if the tumor wasn't reduced in size or extent.
LOS ANGELES - Actress-writer Carrie Hamilton, the 38-year-old daughter of comedian Carol Burnett, died on Sunday due to complications from cancer. Burnett publicist Deborah Kelman said Hamilton died at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
The child, Sara O'Connor, died on April 7 at Yale-New Haven Hospital after being shot at close range shortly before 7 a.m. on April 4. Branford police officers who first responded to Ms. O'Connor's 911 call after the shooting said they found Sara lying on her bed in her second-floor bedroom and bleeding heavily from a ''sucking chest wound,'' ...