While no vaccine exists for hepatitis C, early detection and treatment can curb transmission, limit the disease's progression, and prevent life-threatening complications, including liver cancer.
WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Proclamation -- World Hepatitis Day, 2012
An operation to remove the prostate can have serious side-effects, such as loss of control of urinary function, so doctors are unwilling to operate unless the cancer appears life-threatening.
Ms. Jaeger's foundation, Little Star, serves children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
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He is co-founder of the Milken Family Foundation, chairman of the Milken Institute, and founder of medical philanthropies funding research into melanoma, cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
Since 2000, Dunn has suffered from breast cancer, melanoma and a nasty Stage 4 ovarian cancer, which is threatening her life now.
All I have is my past, but as I have been in counseling (up until two years ago, when it became physically impossible to do so.) to overcome my past-I endured three life threatening health diagnoses-polio, Hepatitis C, and breast cancer-as well as three abusive men-my first husband beat me unmercifully.
In the case of colon cancer, however, this kind of magical thinking is life threatening.
His site, Stem Cell Regen Med, at stemcellregenmed.com, says it can offer treatment for a long list of life-threatening diseases, including ALS, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, cancer, brain damage and lung illnesses.
Routine surgery would become life-threatening because of the risk of untreatable infections, care for premature babies and certain cancer patients would falter, organ transplants would be unviable.
All of the doctors set a similar hurdle: If more than 5% of patients suffered life-threatening bleeding, it would be difficult to prescribe Avastin widely for non-small cell lung cancer.
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