Though he is currently battling multiple myeloma, a fatal bone-marrow cancer, Simons says he is willing to take the stand for either side to clarify the patent if the Applera lawsuit goes to trial.
If he lives through the experience (Peter is a Bladder Cancer Survivor), he will be 75 years old when he next returns to New York.
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Moreover, he noted that ovarian cancer is a relatively small market, with no more than 23, 000 patients affected each year in the U.S. and roughly 16, 000 deaths.
In his most human film, the 1952 Ikiru, a petty bureaucrat learns he is dying of cancer and resolves to do one good thing: fight for the creation of a city park.
But Wright recognizes one reason he has gotten such a rapid response from Canadian doctors is because he has cancer.
Thompson also says he is cancer free after surgery and a series of treatments.
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He is a patient who has a very rare cancer who has already gone through a series of treatments that will affect his prognosis.
He said that if a child is diagnosed with cancer, about 95 percent of those children participate in clinical trials, which has yielded good results.
Fleming wrote that "as a fellow person living with prostate cancer, " he strongly disagreed with the statement that all prostate cancer patients want is a choice.
But he sold all his founders' stock early on because he didn't want the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, where he is the director, to be caught in a conflict of interest.
Mr Chavez is recuperating in a Cuban hospital where he had his fourth operation for cancer last month.
"H.pylori infection is now accepted as a cause of stomach cancer, " he told BBC News Online.
Twenty-five years ago he laid scientific groundwork for the breast cancer drug Herceptin, which is now a blockbuster.
"Across the board, no matter what the age, it is difficult to adhere to a common cancer schedule, " he said.
Mr Chavez has not been seen in public since he had further cancer surgery in Cuba in December and is reported to have a severe a respiratory infection.
In a lab in northern San Diego, Habib Fakhrai is working on a drug he believes will vastly improve and extend the lives of cancer patients.
"To break into a house and steal money which was raised via charitable donations for a young boy suffering from cancer is just sickening, " he said.
Now Kindler says he is putting "Pfizer's full scope and scale" behind a push into the cancer market.
He also is testing a new cocktail that mixes Herceptin with carboplatin, a chemo drug for ovarian cancer, and a third drug, taxotere.
Steve Jobs announced this morning that he is taking a medical leave from Apple (as he has twice before due to his pancreatic cancer).
He noted that there is considerable risk from a competing drug, SU11248, being developed for kidney cancer by Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ).
Rhys Watkins is just 11 years old but he has been forced to battle cancer twice in little over a year.
With the TV cameras rolling during a recent campaign appearance, he stood next to an eastern Washington farmer who is battling renal cancer.
The former leader of the UK Independence Party has bounced back from cancer and a major road accident in the past, he explains, and is beginning to feel as if he might be leading a charmed life.
He is one of a handful of researchers attempting to reprogram a patient's own T cells to attack cancer.
He predicts trials will find "a huge survival advantage" when Avastin is used as initial treatment in brain cancer.
He has been registered as a locum chemist in the area since March 1999, but claims he is not working because he has cancer.
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After having a tumor removed from his lung in May, it emerged he had more cancer, though it is now in remission.
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