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OklahomaStar.com Monday 8th February 2010 Issue 2119
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"It is unfair you enjoy a safe life while our brothers in Gaza suffer greatly. Our attacks will continue as long as you support Israel. "
Osama bin Laden
The al-Qaeda leader was addressing U.S. President Barack Obama in a recently-released videotape.

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Norman man intended to kill everyone in family, prosecutor says
Letannah Bishop , 87. Davis also is charged with a count of assault with intent to kill Link's husband, Brent. Mashburn told a jury Davis was drunk and angry when he went to Tami...

Oklahoma panel clears pilot program for teacher merit pay
Sears says each district would be allowed to craft its own plan and no district would be required to participate.Each plan would have to include measures for students' academic growth, performance...
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graders from the Tulsa area were on hand for the presentation. Members of the Tulsa Symphony String Quartet played a snippet from the movie "Jaws" in front of the Aquarium's shark tank. The...
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Washington, Jan 20 : University of Oklahoma researchers have developed a heat therapy, which when used with chemotherapy destroys large breast cancer tumours.

The new treatment reduced the need for mastectomies by almost 90 percent.

"This therapy is a major advancement for women with later stage breast cancer," said William Dooley, M.D., a researcher at the OU Cancer Institute and the director of surgical oncology at OU Medicine.

"Right now, most patients with large tumors lose their breast. With this treatment along with chemotherapy, we were able to kill the cancer and save the breast tissue," he added.

The research team is working on a treatment called Focused Microwave Thermotherapy.

This technique uses a modified version of the microwave technology behind the "Star Wars" defense system.

They tested the therapy on tumours that were an inch to an inch and a half in size. These large tumours usually require mastectomies.

When researchers used the heating therapy within two hours of patients receiving chemotherapy, the tumour was more susceptible to the chemotherapy and shrunk rapidly.

The percentage of patients needing mastectomies was reduced from 75 percent to 7 percent.

"The trial was very successful. We were able to completely reverse those odds," Dooley said.

"We redesigned the machine and will begin clinical trials this year to determine whether the therapy works on tumors that are larger than one and a half inches and smaller than 5 inches in size," he added.

The study appears in Annals of Surgical Oncology.


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