Tag Archives: Cancer
‘Mr. Balls’ is the New Spokes Person for Testicular Cancer Issue
Brazilian mascot Senior Testicle (also known as ‘Mr. Balls’) is entertaining guests while bringing attention to a life-threatening disease, testicular cancer.
Woman Gets to Hold Her Own Heart After Transplant
According to her friend’s profile, Penny wanted to take her own heart home with her, but doctors wouldn’t allow it.
Surgeon Leaves 16 Items in Body After Operation
Accidents happen in all jobs, even those of the medical industry, but these 16 slip ups were no accident, just pure stupidity.
According to Ninesmsn, Dirk Schroeder had an operation for prostate cancer in 2009. The operation went fine except for the fact that one of the surgeons left 16 items, including a needle, a six inch role of bandage, swabs, and a piece of a surgical mask, inside of his body.
TSA-holes: TSA Agents Make Terminal Leukemia Patient Remove Bandages
We’ve seen people of all shapes, colors and sizes commit acts of terror (mostly big and dark brown or small and pasty white), but we’ve yet to see how the terminally ill are plotting against our national security.
Dunaj tells reporters that officers with the TSA told her she couldn’t have a private pat-down and instead made her remove her bandages and even ruined a bag of saline solution she was carrying with her, all within plain sight of every other traveler passing through the security station.
Woman’s Replacement Ear Is Grown On Her Arm
This cancer survivor had cartilage from her rib cage removed in order to form an ear in the continent’s “most intricate ear reconstruction.”
Walter, 42, noticed a sore on her left ear in 2010. Her dermatologist diagnosed her with cancer within five minutes of examining her ear. Doctors removed her ear, neck glands, part of her skull and lymph nodes when the cancer spread to her ear canal, reported ABC.
