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The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
Chronic necrotizing aspergillosis has a slowly progressive process that, unlike invasive aspergillosis, does not spread to other organ systems or the blood vessels. It most often affects middle-aged and elderly individuals, spreading to surrounding tissue in the lungs. The disease often does not respond to conventionally successful treatments, and requires individualized therapies in order to keep it from becoming life-threatening.
After 5 years of being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, one every three patients will no longer be able to work.
In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.
There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.