Intense chemotherapy, which lasted through August 2005, appeared to have beaten back the disease, but she later had surgery to remove cancer that had spread to her liver.

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But if you remove this element from the BTS's figures, heart disease still causes more deaths than any other.

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Surgery to remove the prostate gland offers the best chance of eliminating the disease but carries a risk of impotence and incontinence.

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So if you remove enough of the plaques, you may slow down the progression of the disease to some extent.

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Under the Affordable Care Act, new insurance plans are required to provide preventive care without cost-sharing, which will remove financial barriers for many Americans to preventive services such as mammograms, colonoscopies and immunizations, help prevent disease and reduce costs.

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Every year 230, 000 American men are diagnosed with the disease (86% of them in the earlier stages), 70, 000 get surgery to remove the prostate and 30, 000 die of prostate cancer.

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Every year 230, 000 American men are diagnosed with the disease (86% of them in the earlier stages), 70, 000 get surgery to remove the prostate and 30, 000 die of prostate cancer (see p. 57 for global figures).

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Livesey, 24, has patella tendonitis - a disease in the tendon that causes inflammation in the knee while Bridge Wilkinson is recovering from an operation to remove floating bone in his big toe.

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