The Caribbean Mercy is smaller and has two operating theatres which deal mainly with eye surgery (mostly cataracts).

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In their excellent new book, How Capitalism Will Save Us, Forbes Chairman Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames note that demand for mostly elective plastic surgery has rocketed sixfold in the last 15 years.

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Both treatments, should they be approved by the Food and Drug Administration early next year, are expected to be used mostly for patients who are not candidates for surgery or for those for whom surgery is deemed high risk.

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For decades cancer researchers have focused mostly on killing cancer cells with drugs and radiation, or removing them with surgery.

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