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Monday: Senior Day at the Fair
What a great weekend at the Fair! Gear up for the week ahead, because the Upstate booth has a lot to offer! Today is the FIRST of two Senior Days at the fair, seniors get free admission! Here’s who’s...
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1970s discovery makes bones ‘light up like a Christmas tree’
John McAfee MD, chairman of radiology and radiological sciences, 1965-1989, and Robert Richardson PhD, associate professor of radiology, 1970-2014, in the nuclear medicine lab at Upstate University...
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Healing helpers: Humor, acceptance, positive attitude
Patty Agne said she was fortunate to have the support and advice of her sister, Susan Byrns, and Byrns’ daughter, Malinda Seymour, who are both oncology nurses, as she underwent treatment for breast...
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Surgery, chemo battle preschooler’s kidney tumor
Ariana LaVaute (PHOTO COURTESY OF THE LAVAUTE FAMILY). Three-year-old Ariana LaVaute attended the Skaneateles Labor Day parade on Sept. 1, 2014, and then helped her father trim shrubs in their yard. A...
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Up Close: A quick look at bone marrow transplant
Upstate has performed more than 800 bone marrow transplants since 1992. Upstate’s Bone Marrow Transplant Program treats patients whose bone marrow has been damaged or destroyed by chemotherapy,...
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A ‘knife’ that fixes tumors without cutting
Kathleen Vincitore poses with her otolaryngologist, Charles Woods, MD, in the Gamma Knife Center at Upstate. (PHOTO BY ROBERT MESCAVAGE) When Kathleen Vincitore, 69, of Liverpool learned she had a...
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Meet Upstate’s newest stroke experts
(From left) Hesham Masoud, MBBCh, Amar Swarnkar, MD, and Grahame Gould, MD, are colleagues at Upstate. (PHOTO BY ROBERT MESCAVAGE) Physicians armed with skill and knowledge can be the difference...
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Upstate’s music man: His ‘prescriptions’ target stress
Mitchell Karmel, MD, in an operating room in the radiology suite with a sampling of the thousands of albums he owns. (PHOTO BY ROBERT MESCAVAGE) BY AMBER SMITH Patients answer many questions on the...
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She never wanted to be a patient; she wanted to remain a person
Veronica Muscolino, during a chemotherapy treatment for lung cancer. (PHOTO BY ROBERT MESCAVAGE) What she feared most was pity. Veronica Muscolino didn’t like the idea of telling people about her...
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Performer keeps a song in her heart as she copes with rare cancer, its many...
Donna, Colton (right) performing with Sam Patterelli and Sharon Allen at the “Respect” concert in November 2015. (PHOTO BY ERICA HASENJAGER) BY AMBER SMITH What began as a tiny bump under Donna...
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