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MDS Nordion's TheraSphere® Highlighted at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 35^th Annual Scientific Meeting

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Feb 5, 2010

MDS Nordion's Therasphere for Unresectable Liver Cancer (HCC)
Now Covered by Two Large U.S. Insurers

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Feb 5, 2010

MDS Nordion Launches Improved TheraSphere® Administration System for Physicians

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March 9, 2008

Procedure Offers time, hope for liver cancer patients

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January 3, 2008

MDS Nordion Establishes European Centers of Excellence for Innovative Liver Cancer Therapy

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February 8, 2007

First Patients in India Receive Innovative Treatment for Primary Liver Cancer

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January 17, 2007

Expanded use for TheraSphere^® offers physicians an innovative alternative to traditional liver cancer therapies

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January 10, 2007

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Tiny beads, bigger doses, fewer side effects – BRCH offers innovative treatment for liver cancer

Healthy Living - BRCH, June 21, 2009

Minature Miracles: Microtechology and Nanotechnology

Steve West, RT Image, April 20, 2009

Podcast: Liver Cancer Survivor Shares Her Story

Heather Simons, ADVANCE for Iimaging and Radiation Therapy Professionals, March 2009

Targeted therapies gain ground on hard-to-treat liver tumors Radioactive microspheres treat lesions but spare healthy surrounding tissue, improving patients' odds against some of the deadliest cancers

Andrew Kennedy, MD., Diagnostic Imaging, January 1, 2009

New Treatment May Shrink Cancer Tumor

Meryl Lin McKean, FOX 4 News, July 17, 2008

Yttrium-90 therapy could potentially lead to effective management of HCC and liver metastases

Interventional News Staff, Interventional News, June 2008

Small Beads, Big Hope - Radioembolization With Microspheres Targets Liver Cancer

Dan Harvey, Radiology Today, June 30, 2008

Giving Hope to patients with inoperable liver cancer

Kathy Ricketts, The Schenectady Gazette Daily Gazette, June 24, 2008

Yttrium-90 Radioembolization – Recent advances in hepatic embolotherapy

Dr. David Liu, et al., Endovascular Today, June 2008

KMC Says Demand Grows for High-Tech Cancer Therapy

Emily Proffitt, Northwest Business Press, May 19, 2008

Radioembolization promising for inoperable chemorefractory liver metastases

Reuters Health, Aunt Minnie, April 30, 2008

TheraSphere – Adventist Hinsdale Hospital Receives Yttrium-90 Approval

Frank Fachinni, M.D., Imaging and Oncology Update, February 2008

Medical Center Offers New Liver Cancer Treatment; Is One of Five Centers Nationwide in Follow-up Study.

Albany Medical Today, Editor, Beth Engeler, February 29, 2008

Radiation Beads New Treatment for Liver Cancer

Meryl Lin McKean, FOX 4 News, February 29, 2008

New Trial To Test Radiation-emitting Beads Against Advanced Liver Cancer

Thomas Jefferson University, Science Daily, February 12, 2008

Fighting Disease 1.2 Million Microspheres at a Time

By James Meler - MD, Advance for Imaging and Radiation Therapy Professionals, February 4, 2008

New radiation therapy helping those with liver cancer

Wendy Rigby KENS 5 Eyewitness News, November 21, 2007

Tennis helps Markham battle cancer

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Patient Power, October 12, 2007

Liver Transplant Patients and the Lack of Organ Donors: A Patient's Story

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Patient Power, September 11, 2007

Patient Empowerment: How to fight the insurance company and win!

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Patient Power, June 27, 2007

Radiation beads being tested for liver cancer

Kawanza Newson, November 5, 2006

Yttrium-90 Controls Liver Cancer Over Long Term.

Presented at SIR by Ed Susman, Toronto, Canada, April 4, 2006

New therapy points to better life

Arizona Daily Star, February 11, 2006

Therasphere News Flash: Treatment of Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma with use of 90Y Microspheres (TheraSphere): Safety, Tumor Response, and Survival

January 11, 2006

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