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Those ideas are already changing the way doctors think about cancer. They are starting to set aside their decades-old obsession with reducing the bulk of a cancerous growth and appreciate instead that the vast majority of its mass is cellular noise, a distraction from the tiny percentage of cells--perhaps as few as 3% to 5%--that are the real culprits. At the latest meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, researchers at City of Hope Cancer Center in Duarte, Calif., announced that they had isolated a group of stem cell--like cells in lungs that seed...
...those therapies treat all cancer cells as equals. The next generation of treatments, doctors say, needs to recognize and target the root cause of tumors. "It requires a reorientation in people's thinking," says Weinberg. "We need to focus on wiping out the stem cells rather than eradicating the bulk of the tumor...
...additional processing fee of $50 to $100, according to Michelson.Some medical schools screen students before sending out secondary applications, but “more and more schools now are sending secondaries,” she says.For Benigno R. Varela ’06, the application fees comprised the bulk of his costs. He says he decided to go to medical school early on, and sent out the AMCAS application to as many universities as he could to increase his chances of an acceptance.“My mother went though 11 miscarriages, and I accompanied my mother to her gynecologist...
...WHRB’s underground rock show Record Hospital (RH), has no pretensions about the station’s campus listenership. “At Harvard, we don’t have a great following,” he says. “Also, the bulk of our programming is classical and you’re not going to get 6,000 kids tuning into classical...
...Only large chains can request specific designs for their cups, Roderick says, because they purchase in bulk...