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Fox News Personality, Surgeon From New Jersey Dies At 45 Fox News Personality, Surgeon From New Jersey Dies At 45
Fox News Personality, Surgeon From New Jersey Dies At 45 A surgeon and Westchester County, NY native from New Jersey who became popular for her numerous television appearances has died after a battle with cancer.  Kelly Powers, who was known for appearing on Fox News television programs like "Fox & Friends" and "The Willis Report," died on Sunday, Dec. 1 at the age of 45 after a battle with glioblastoma, a deadly form of brain cancer. Born in Yonkers before later becoming a resident of Colts Neck, New Jersey, Powers graduated from the Academy of Our Lady of Good Counsel High School in White Plains before attending Baruch College in …

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by Ben Crnic
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Every Cancer Patient In Remission After Miraculous Memorial Sloan Kettering Drug Trial Every Cancer Patient In Remission After Miraculous Memorial Sloan Kettering Drug Trial
Every Cancer Patient In Remission After Miraculous Memorial Sloan Kettering Drug Trial More than 15 rectal cancer patients who participated in a drug trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center are in remission. The first patient to try the drug was Washington DC's Sascha Roth, who got the good news on a Friday evening just four weeks before she was scheduled to undergo weeks of radiation therapy. More than a dozen others would soon receive the good news. The MSK clinical trial was investigating if immunotherapy alone could beat rectal cancer that had not spread to other tissues, in a subset of patients whose tumor contained a specific genetic mutation, the hospital sai…

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by Cecilia Levine