Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tawnya Geisbush wakes up every day fighting two battles--one against breast cancer, the other against her insurance company. It's hard to say which is the more stubborn opponent...
Geisbush, 32, a veterinarian from Phoenix, Ariz., was recently found to be suffering from metastatic breast cancer, an especially aggressive malignancy that had already ranged well beyond the site of the original disease. Eventually she and her doctors agreed they should attack the advancing cancer with what many people believe is the most potent weapon available: high-dose chemotherapy accompanied by a transplant of stem cells, precursors of disease-fighting immune-system cells...
Scientists have done remarkably well in tracking down genes that are linked to diseases, identifying more than 100 illnesses that are associated with single-gene defects, such as Tay-Sachs, sickle-cell anemia and several forms of cancer. In dealing with behavior, however, the results have been more ambiguous. "The idea of finding a single gene that could orchestrate something as complex as behavior, while attractive, is probably not realistic," says Thompson, who notes that many factors tend to influence a person?s actions. There is also an additional element: Studies exploring genetics and behavior are open to question...
...attention or sympathy. I probably just wanted someone to feel badly for me. Look at you--you think your Expos paper is hard. Well, my father is in a hospital right now, getting gamma rays sprayed through him every day with a last hope that they will kill his cancer. All I could think about is what I would miss if he died. I lay in bed the other night thinking what would happen to his rows of Docksiders in the closet. He has a system. Fancy clean Docksiders for dinner parties, medium-flavored Docksiders for walking around the island...
...maybe I simply believed too strongly in the healing powers of colon cancer. Once Straw became a victim, his turbulent past was quickly forgotten. "No one with cancer can do something...