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When the FDA approved Genentech's colorectal cancer drug Avastin last week, it also validated a cancer-fighting strategy proposed more than 30 years ago. Avastin is the first in what researchers hope will be a whole new class of drugs called angiogenesis inhibitors, which attack tumors by thwarting their ability to create blood vessels--thus starving cancer cells of oxygen and nutrients. In trials, Avastin has been shown to give patients, on average, an additional five months of life. Cost of a 10month course of treatment: about...
...stock in the troubled biotech firm ImClone after Bacanovic had told his assistant to inform her that ImClone founder Sam Waksal was trying to sell his own stock. The day after Stewart sold, the Food and Drug Administration refused to review ImClone's application for Erbitux, a promising cancer drug, prompting a sharp drop in the share price. Stewart dumped hers at $58.43; the next day they opened at $45.39 - a fall that would have cost her approximately $51,200 if she sold them immediately once the news was public...
PETA also advocates boycotting charitable organizations such as the American Cancer Society, the American Red Cross and the American Foundation for AIDS Research, which all use testing on animals as a means to discovering cures to endemic diseases. The organization called a boycott of the March of Dimes, one of the nation’s largest annual charity events, and even considered disrupting local March of Dimes events and displays because some of the money that organization raised went to organizations and labs that used animal testing...
...human tragedy and sickness. Last year, Newkirk wrote a letter to Yassir Arafat expressing her outrage that a donkey was used in a suicide bombing—a plea to “leave animals out of this conflict.” In a billboard suggesting that milk causes cancer, former New York City Mayor Rudi Giuliani (then ailing from prostate cancer) was depicted with a milk moustache next to the bolded words, “Got Milk?” And during the first Mad Cow scare, a PETA executive mused that America’s meat-eaters would...
...there is a big difference between a statistical link and a causal relationship. It's entirely possible that breast cancer was creating the women's need for antibiotics (rather than the other way around) by undermining the immune system, for example. Or that an underlying problem--perhaps chronic inflammation--was making the women's bodies a breeding ground for both bacterial infections and tumors. It's worth noting that the antibiotics users were, on average, older and heavier, had stronger family histories of cancer and were more likely to use hormone-replacement therapy--all risk factors for breast cancer...