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Nov 19, 2004   

Surgery Without the Scalpel: U. Va. Health System Marks Fifteenth Anniversary of GAMMA Knife
In 1989, when the University of Virginia Health System installed the first Gamma Knife neurosurgical instrument in Virginia, George H. W. Bush was president and the Berlin Wall was coming down. U.Va's Gamma Knife was the second in the U.S. and only the fifth in the world. 

Nov 4, 2004      

Link Between Immune Protein and Longer Survival in Melanoma Patients Identified
Immune responses to prevent or delay the spread of melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer, are more likely to prolong survival in patients if their immune cells carry a special kind of marker on the surface, according to a team of researchers at the University of Virginia Health System.  The finding is published in the November 1 issue of the journal Cancer Research.