Patients help fight cancer after death

by Populux | June 20, 2006 at 03:49 am
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AP - Pancreatic cancer killed William Schunk. Now scientists are using his body to fight back. Within about an hour of his death, researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center began collecting the Omaha veteran's organs as part of a unique "rapid autopsy" program. The goal: To create a library of tissue that could finally point scientists to new ways to diagnose and treat this most lethal of cancers.


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