Canadian man returns to school 老年の 60 to try to find a cure for the rare 癌 that killed his wife

  • Powel Crosley's wife Sladjana died in 2009 at the age of 58 予定 to granulosa, a rare form of ovarian 癌
  • Crosley has since 入会させるd in University of Alberta to 熟考する／考慮する 癌 and 特に to find a 治療 for his wife's 病気
  • Has raised $60,000 to keep 研究 going in school's labs

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One of the University of Alberta's oldest underclassmen is a 60-year-old man who's come 支援する to school to 熟考する／考慮する the 癌 that ended his wife's life.

Powel Crosley's wife Sladjana died in 2009 at the age of 58 予定 to granulosa, a rare form of ovarian 癌.

Only 5 per cent of ovarian 癌 事例／患者s are 診断するd as granulosa.

CBS News 報告（する）／憶測s Crosely spent his career to now in （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） 科学（工学）技術, and 入会させるd in cllege again in 2010.

Powel Crosley, seen here with wife Sladjana, who died of a rare type of ovarian cancer in 2009, has returned to school at the age of 60 to study the disease that took her from him

Powel Crosley, seen here with wife Sladjana, who died of a rare type of ovarian 癌 in 2009, has returned to school at the age of 60 to 熟考する／考慮する the 病気 that took her from him

'The main thing I'm trying to do is come up with an 効果的な 治療,' he said.

Crosley especially hopes to find better drugs for patients than many now which are 'highly toxic'

Crosley 特に hopes to find better 麻薬s for 患者s than many now which are '高度に 有毒な'

He's now doing course work in biochemistry and oncology and has 安全な・保証する d a $60,000 認める to continue 研究ing.

A 約束ing 麻薬 developed by the University of Illinois is の中で the 構内／化合物s he's 現在／一般に 実験（する）ing.

The 麻薬, Pac-1, has shown some results with lymphoma, which carries a mortality 率 of 85 per cent.

He's also hoping to find something easier for 患者s to 過程.

'Many of the 麻薬s are 高度に 有毒な,' he told reporters.

In Sladjana's 事例／患者, the 致命的な problem （機の）カム from 内部の bleeding 原因（となる） by a 医薬.

She was 最初 診断するd in 1996.

にもかかわらず を受けるing six major 外科s and 多重の 臨床の 裁判，公判s, the 癌 metastasized to her 肝臓 and 肺s.

'They told us they caught it 早期に, they told us there was no 調印する of the 病気, they told us it wouldn't come 支援する,'he told CBS News.

Much as her husband is doing now, she 熟考する／考慮するd 科学の literature about her 癌 for 13 years and was the one who 設立する literature pointing to Pac-1.

Crosley has helped get a $60,000 grant to continue his research at the University of Alberta

Crosley has helped get a $60,000 認める to continue his 研究 at the University of Alberta

She also 設立するd the Granulosa 独房 Tumor 研究 創立／基礎 to help 患者s get （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） about their 病気.

Her husband has since taken over running the 創立／基礎.

'She had tremendous 運動 and 決意 to look into things and 達成する things.' Crosely said. 'She was incredibly intelligent and just a very strong person.

'Her motto was: The answer lies in the lab. She was pretty 執拗な about things she believed in. And so I'm just 基本的に 完全にするing her 使節団.'

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