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MARGIN OF SAFETY For years, doctors have tried to spare women from having a mastectomy for ductal carcinoma in situ, a noninvasive form of breast cancer. Instead, they cut out only the cancerous cells and then irradiate the breast. Now a major report shows that women may be able to avoid radiation too--as long as doctors remove a 1/2-in. margin of tissue along with the problem cells. That sure beats getting zapped, which is expensive, time consuming and may make future mammograms difficult to read...
...Maryland collector who lent it to the Whitney Museum in New York City. There it was seen by an ophthalmologist who, not sure whether he was intruding or not, got a message to Close. Did he know that one eye of the man in the painting showed signs of carcinoma? No, Close didn't, but his father-in-law had a checkup, and it turned out to be true. People always hope their lives will be enhanced by works of art, but this was the only time an American's sight was saved...
...There are 500,000 patients dying each yearfrom advanced cancer and 1.3 million new cancerpatients each year," Folkman says.Courtesy of The New England Journal ofMedicineCANCER AND THE ANGIOGENIC LINK: An insitu carcinoma grows to form a tumor. There aretwo types of cells: angiogenic tumor cells andnon-angiogenic cells. The cancer spreads to otherparts of the body (metastasis). Either angiogenictumor cells or non-angiogenic cells exist. Theangiogenic tumor cells can rapidly grow and bedetected in the clinic...
SKIN-CANCER RISE Among Caucasians, the incidence of squamous-cell carcinoma is climbing faster than expected. Since the mid-'80s, rates have doubled in women and gone up one-quarter...
...Calif.: A California physician has developed a new diagnostic method for treating some breast cancer tumors. Dr. Melvin Silverstein, a surgical oncologist, announced a system Wednesday that could prevent excessive treatments that many women now undergo. The process assigns points to three characteristics of the common DCIS (for ductal carcinoma in situ) tumors. The tumor's final "score" determines whether it can be safely ignored, removed, or treated with radiation or a mastectomy. Now, tumors are often treated too aggressively with radiation or breast removal that may be unnecessary. "Right now we do not know which tumors are going...