Bringing research dollars, treatment to cancer fight
The University of Mississippi Medical Center Cancer Institute has long been a Mecca for patients who want access to cutting edge cancer treatments. And in the four years since prominent cancer...
View ArticleNurse charged in connection with cancer clinic fraud case
SUMMIT — A nurse has been charged with withholding information about a felony at a former south Mississippi cancer clinic that prosecutors accused of a multimillion-dollar fraud related to chemotherapy...
View ArticleNurses to plead guilty to roles in cancer center fraud
JACKSON — Federal court records say two nurses will plead guilty to withholding information about a crime at a former south Mississippi cancer clinic that prosecutors said was involved in a...
View ArticleSenate president pro tempore Brown has lung cancer; getting chemo
COLUMBUS — State Sen. Terry Brown of Columbus says he’s undergoing chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer in his left lung. Brown told WCBI-TV yesterday that the cancer is in its early stages...
View ArticleTargeted therapy of breast cancer shows improved outcomes
» Treatment has fewer side effects; may be wave of future Targeted therapy for treating cancer, including breast cancer tumors, is definitely the wave of the future, said Dr. Grace Shumaker, an...
View Article‘I was the chosen one’
» Survivor dedicates life to help newly diagnosed patients Stephanie Davis was diagnosed with breast cancer 10 years ago at the age of 35. There was no family history of the disease, and Davis said...
View ArticleUMMC researcher developing therapy to attack cancer tumors
Drazen Raucher, Ph.D., director of the graduate program in biochemistry at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, recently received one patent and has applied for several others for a...
View ArticleGuidelines, early breast cancer detection saves lives
» Knowing family history, maintaining healthy weight, limiting smoking and drinking all important With changing guidelines for preventing and detecting breast cancer, what’s a woman to do? There are...
View ArticleNurse pleads guilty to role in cancer center fraud
SUMMIT — A nurse has pleaded guilty to failing to report a crime at a former cancer clinic involved in a multimillion-dollar fraud. Courtney Michelle Young pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony...
View ArticleSecond nurse pleads guilty to role in cancer center fraud
SUMMIT — A second nurse has pleaded guilty to failing to report a crime at a south Mississippi cancer clinic that was shut down over unsafe practices and accused of a multimillion-dollar fraud....
View ArticleCancer Registry awards gold certification to CMMC
JACKSON — Central Mississippi Medical Center (CMMC) has received gold certification from the Mississippi Cancer Registry (MCR). The MCR began a certification process in 2008 for hospitals modeled after...
View ArticleHealth law raises concerns for cancer centers
WASHINGTON — Cancer patients relieved that they can get insurance coverage because of the new health care law may be disappointed to learn that some the nation’s best cancer hospitals are off-limits An...
View ArticleEx-mayor, businessman Chain dies at 84
HATTIESBURG — Former Hattiesburg mayor and businessman Bobby Lee Chain has died. He was 84. He died of cancer about 5:15 a.m. yesterday at Forrest General Hospital, his wife, Betty Chain, said. He was...
View ArticleNunnelee moves to Johns Hopkins; still rehabilitating from brain surgery
BALTIMORE, Maryland — Congressman Alan Nunnelee has been moved to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, to start radiation and chemotherapy, three weeks after he underwent brain surgery in...
View ArticleRAISING AWARENESS — Lori Newcomb, family join fight against ovarian cancer
The family of the co-founder one of Mississippi’s most successful restaurants is in a fight against a life-threatening disease, and they are courageously going public with their battle in an effort to...
View ArticleSenate President Pro Tempore Brown in hospital following cancer treatment
LOWNDES COUNTY — Mississippi Senate President Pro Tempore Terry Brown of Columbus is hospitalized after having “very aggressive treatment for cancer.” That’s according to Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, who...
View ArticleSenate President Pro Tempore Terry Brown dies after cancer treatment
COLUMBUS — Mississippi Senate President Pro Tempore Terry Brown, a longtime lawmaker known for his booming voice and skepticism about government programs, died yesterday after undergoing treatment for...
View ArticleChickasaw County circuit clerk dies of cancer
HOUSTON — Chickasaw County Circuit Clerk Sandra Willis has died Willis, first elected in 1992, died Sunday after suffering from cancer. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports that Willis was a...
View ArticleFormer state Sen. Mulholland dies of cancer
PHILADELPHIA — Former state Sen. Joe H. Mulholland of Philadelphia has died from complications of cancer. He was 80. Officials with McClain-Hays Funeral Home say Mulholland died Tuesday in a hospital...
View ArticleResearch on dogs could lead to better understanding of human cancer
STARKVILLE — A research team at Mississippi State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine is working to better understand cancer in dogs, and the work also could advance knowledge of human cancer....
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