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Antibiotics
A century ago, a simple infection could take a life. Before the 1900s, physicians relied on a bevy of concoctions to treat infectious conditions that they could not understand.
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Catheterization
For someone suffering from acute urinary retention, nothing spells relief quite like a catheter. Today's catheters are safe, indispensable diagnostic and treatment tools in many specialties, employed as much to inject fluid as to drain it.
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Chemotherapy
The race to cure cancer has been a marathon physicians and researchers have been running for decades. But, since the advent of chemotherapeutic treatments, more hurdles are being cleared than ever before. For without surgery and effective, though toxic, drugs to stop cancers in their tracks, many cancer victims might not be the survivors they are today.
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Hormone Therapy
In the early 1900s, the outlook was grim in general for a patient with prostate cancer, much less one who had failed conventional treatment. But today, alternative therapy is available to patients who have failed traditional treatments: hormone therapy. Now, thanks to all of these new treatments, sufferers can bask in the hope, if not the reality, of a cure.
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Prostatectomy
Urology has a number of white knights that have led crusades against many debilitating urologic disorders. But perhaps none is more heroic than those innovative surgeons who have led the way in treating prostate cancer.
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