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Battling cancer: Melissa Duval, 4, shown here after cancer treatment in 1987, is in Greece to be treated by a doctor who claims his serum has cured patients
Battling cancer: Melissa Duval, 4, shown here after cancer treatment in 1987, is in Greece to be treated by a doctor who claims his serum has cured patients

Battling cancer: Melissa Duval, 4, shown here after cancer treatment in 1987, is in Greece to be treated by a doctor who claims his serum has cured patients

Date1/13/1989
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Original Toronto Star caption: Battling cancer: Melissa Duval; 4; shown here after cancer treatment in 1987; is in Greece to be treated by a doctor who claims his serum has cured patients.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0045081F
Hopeful again: Moe and Kathy Duval say their 4-year-old daughter, Melissa, who's been fighting cancer for two years, has gained weight and her hair is growing again
Hopeful again: Moe and Kathy Duval say their 4-year-old daughter, Melissa, who's been fighting cancer for two years, has gained weight and her hair is growing again
2/4/1989
Safety first: Dr. Donato Spensieri of Wood-bridge wants to improve safety at the Kipling, Islington and Weston Rd. Intersections along Highway 7, which he claims have taken more lives to traffic accidents than he has lost patients to cancer over the past 15 years.
Safety first: Dr. Donato Spensieri of Wood-bridge wants to improve safety at the Kipling, Islington and Weston Rd. Intersections along Highway 7, which he claims have taken more lives to traffic accidents than he has lost patients to cancer over the past 15 years.
4/9/1992
Melissa Duval: Five-year-old died from cancer at her Brampton home Sunday
Melissa Duval: Five-year-old died from cancer at her Brampton home Sunday
9/20/1989
Sudbury --- Two of Ontario's top cancer doctors will go to Houston next month to study as experimental anti-cancer treatment that has apparently saved(...)
Sudbury --- Two of Ontario's top cancer doctors will go to Houston next month to study as experimental anti-cancer treatment that has apparently saved(...)
10/25/1982
Dying Rachel King, the 4-year-old Huntsville cancer victim, has been released from Prince Margaret Hospital after radiation treatments and is back home with her parents
Dying Rachel King, the 4-year-old Huntsville cancer victim, has been released from Prince Margaret Hospital after radiation treatments and is back home with her parents
1/18/1979
Tumor specialist: Dr. Rudy Falk, beside ba machine that helps destroy cancer cells with heat, treats 30 to 50 terminally ill patients day at his private clinic
Tumor specialist: Dr. Rudy Falk, beside ba machine that helps destroy cancer cells with heat, treats 30 to 50 terminally ill patients day at his private clinic
4/16/1990
Thousands of kilometres away, outside Queen's Park in Toronto, former Soviet dissident Roman Fin, a cancer researcher, quietly dispalys signs and endures his own hunger strike to draw attention to Sakharov's plight. Fin, 42, who has lived here over three
Thousands of kilometres away, outside Queen's Park in Toronto, former Soviet dissident Roman Fin, a cancer researcher, quietly dispalys signs and endures his own hunger strike to draw attention to Sakharov's plight. Fin, 42, who has lived here over three
5/18/1984
After knee ailment was cured at Shrine-sup-ported hospital in Montreal, Del Hopper decided he'd become Shriner, and in 1956 he did. Now on giving end, he visits young patients at the hospital
After knee ailment was cured at Shrine-sup-ported hospital in Montreal, Del Hopper decided he'd become Shriner, and in 1956 he did. Now on giving end, he visits young patients at the hospital
6/27/1975
Dr. Ian Dube, director of the first cancer cytogenetics program in Canada, and senior technologist Sandra Johnson, look at lab results from leukemia patients.
Dr. Ian Dube, director of the first cancer cytogenetics program in Canada, and senior technologist Sandra Johnson, look at lab results from leukemia patients.
1/16/1987
Go ahead: Leukemia victim Maryse Madore of Oshawa got Ronald McDonald's help to open the model of the house named for him that will help families be near young cancer patients
Go ahead: Leukemia victim Maryse Madore of Oshawa got Ronald McDonald's help to open the model of the house named for him that will help families be near young cancer patients
4/10/1981
Cancer victim: Irene Pirocchi yesterday urged that heroin be made available to ease the pain of terminally ill patients
Cancer victim: Irene Pirocchi yesterday urged that heroin be made available to ease the pain of terminally ill patients
6/6/1984
Faith healer Benny Hinn of Toronto (left) tells a cancer-stricken woman she is cured
Faith healer Benny Hinn of Toronto (left) tells a cancer-stricken woman she is cured
11/9/1977