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...last year, Cosgriff, a big, 6’7 left-hander for the Harvard team, sat slumped and emotionless on the couch at his home in the New York area, doing absolutely nothing. After months of treatment, he was mired in his third cycle of chemotherapy for testicular cancer...
...jacket, a shirt, a hat, a DVD of the team’s championship season, a baseball, and the last part—the best part—a letter. Lucchino, a man whom Cosgriff had never met, had himself survived cancer against the odds. Twice—in the mid-80’s with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, for which he received a bone marrow transplant, and in the 90’s for prostate cancer—Lucchino had experienced the twin hells of cancer and chemo...
...approaches yields an approved treatment. But interest in the field is growing rapidly, thanks in part, paradoxically, to President George W. Bush's restrictions on embryonic-stem-cell research. Some of the federal funds that might otherwise have gone to embryonic stem cells could be finding their way into cancer-stem-cell studies. "Don't expect anything before five years," says Weissman, "but be angry if you don't see anything in 15 years." Cancer patients, mark your calendars...
...DIED. JUNE POINTER, 52, who, with her siblings, formed the Grammy-winning pop group the Pointer Sisters and recorded such '80s megahits as Jump (For My Love) and I'm So Excited; of cancer; in Los Angeles. The sisters' success waned after the 1983 release of their 3 million-selling album Break Out, and in 2003 June?who struggled with drug addiction and her mental health?was replaced by her niece...
Doctors may soon be able to better predict whether breast cancer patients will respond well to chemotherapy, the results of a recent study conducted in part by Harvard Medical School affiliates at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute suggest. The study, which appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week, “add[s] to a growing body of evidence that breast cancer is not one homogeneous disease, but rather a disease with many subtypes and requires a variety of new treatment approaches,” lead author Eric P. Winer, who is associate professor...