A cancer patient who got infected with Covid-19 in the oncology clinic of the University hospital in Larissa, central Greece, died Monday noon. The 53-year-old man needed hospitalization in the clinic where a total of 25 patients and health personnel were tested positive with the virus last week. The deceased, …
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Greek police releases pictures of bogus doctor suspected of cancer patients’ deaths
In an effort to identify more victims of the bogus doctor, Greek Police released on Monday the pictures of the man who was claiming to be a doctor specialized in the treatment of cancer. He was offering “alternative therapies” based on herbal oils and cannabis and was extracting thousands of …
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Pseudo-doctor arrested as responsible for the death of 3 people, incl. 2 minors
Greek police arrested a man, a pseudo-doctor, as responsible for the death of three cancer patients. Among his victims were two children, aged 14 and 16, and a 76-year-old man. The man would falsely identify himself as a doctor, convince his victims or their relatives to interrupt the therapies. He …
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Chemotherapy cancelled in Greece’s hospitals due to lack of drugs
Cancer patients and doctors in Greece’s hospitals are in despair as chemotherapy treatments is delayed or even cancelled due to shortage of chemotherapy drugs. This has been denounced by the Greek Cancer Federation (ELOC) tha has received a ling list of complaints by those involved in the treatment of cancer. …
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Athens sees history as runner completes marathon in every country in the world
A British endurance athlete has become he first person to run the length of a marathon in every country in the world after completing the Athens Marathon. Exactly 694 days after he set off on his mission to run the famous distance in all 196 UN-recognised countries in January 2018, …
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Chemotherapy treatment “postponed” in big Athens hospital due to lack of funds
Cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy in Attiko Hospital in Athens were shocked to be informed that their treatment is postponed on indefinite time. The patients were informed by phone on Thursday. Hospital workers president and doctor at Attiko ICU, Mihalis Rizos, told news outlet documentonews.gr, that hospital employees learned form the …
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Hospital doctor arrested for €3,000 in bribes by pauper cancer patient
A chief surgeon at a big hospital in Athens was arrested on Friday, after a cancer patient filed a complaint to police that the doctor had extorted a total of 3,000 euros. The 50-year-old doctor is well-known in Athens and is working at the Ippokrateio Public Hospital. During a police …
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Greece rejects innovative CERN technology for cancer treatment
Greece has rejected a 100-million-euro investment to gain access to the latest technology that destroys cancer cells without affecting neighboring tissues. The new Proton Particle Accelerator developed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has a small size and light weight meaning that is can be set up in …
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Greek Police investigates whether cancer patients received less medication by members of cancer drugs mafia
For the cancer drugs mafia life did not matter: two nurses in a big public hospital in Athens would give to patients a smaller dose of medication than needed and they would forward the rest of the quantity to the other members of the criminal cancer drugs gang. “Imagine three …
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Greek oncologist leads team that develops blood test detecting 8 types of cancer
Scientists have developed a noninvasive blood test that can detect signs of eight types of cancer long before any symptoms of the disease arise. The test, which can also help doctors determine where in a person’s body the cancer is located, is called CancerSEEK. Its genesis is described in a …
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Cancer patient postpones ‘death’ to secure pension for his widow in austerity Greece
A cancer patient postponed his death for a couple of days in order to secure pension for his wife and future widow. The terminally ill man was asked doctors to put him on life supporting machines and prolong his life for just five days in order to secure that his …
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Austerity: Public Hospital halts chemotherapy, turns away cancer patients “because “budget exceeded”
The public hospital in Volos has reportedly stopped providing chemotherapy to cancer patients and sends them away because the monthly budget has been exceeded. Public Hospital workers unions denounce and media report that the oncology unit stopped the chemotherapy treatment since last Monday and by order of the hospital commander. …
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Greece’s Health Minister to ‘charge’ cancer patients with 50% of treatment cost if they fail to undergo precautionary tests
It is a well-know neo-liberal policy: health issues lay in the responsibility of the patient. It is also a well-known fact that cuts in the health sector are top priority not only of the International Monetary Fund but of every government in every country that imposes austerity measures – see …
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Hope: Cancer patient Panoulis, 4.5, to finally receive treatment
It needed two months of ‘promises and mockery’, the mobilization of a whole island and the public outcry until 4.5-year-old “Panoulis” -as his friends and supporters call him -could safely step into the path of his therapy. Greek Health Ministry finally approved to cover part of the money needed for …
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Greek Health Minister: “Cancer is not urgent unless in final stages”
Huh? As if we didn’t know it, but yet cynicism is always surprising. Greece’s Health Minister claims to know better, when cancer patients need to be treated. Adonis Georgiadis, a History Dept graduate who made a career selling controversial books on television, describes “cancer” as “a disease that does not …
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Athens SOS: urgent appeal for cancer patient without insurance
A woman, 45, with cancer cannot afford to pay for chemotherapy drugs worth 4,450 euro. The Metropolitan Community Clinic in Elliniko, south Athens, made an urgent appeal seeking for donations. “The woman’s life is in danger, if she doesn’t start a course of chemotherapy drugs immediately,” said the MCC – …
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Can Samaras Replace Sarkozy in Merkel’s Heart? An Astro-Match
I just came up with this post idea, when I saw the picture of Angela Merkel and Antonis Samaras while the Greek Prime minister was visiting Berlin in August 2012. The question that immediately popped up in my mind, while watching the deep looking into each others’ eyes was: Can Samaras …
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SOS Oral S*x: Bishop of Piraeus Warns of Dangers for Physical and Mental Health
In his ‘manifesto’ on oral sex, Bishop of Piraeus, Metropolitan Seraphim clarifies first of all that “we are not possessed by any dastard motives of extreme or fundamentalist disposal, neither of homophophic syndrome.” With reference to latest study of the University Hospital of Coventry on the increasing risks for cancer due …
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Finnish FinMin: Greece Causes Uncertainty …like Cancer
(Reuters) – Finnish finance minister Jutta Urpilainen on Sunday expressed her concern over Greece, the troubled euro state which has repeatedly failed to meet the fiscal targets set out by its international lenders. ‘Greece’s situation causes uncertainty, it is like cancer. As long as its own situation is uncertain, it …
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