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...February of last year, Victoria Reiter, 63, figured she had only a few months to live. A writer and translator living in Manhattan, she was suffering from chronic myeloid leukemia, an especially deadly form of blood cancer. The only treatment available was interferon, an immune-system booster that wasn't really working and that made her violently ill. Reiter had spent most of 1999 in bed, too sick to read, to walk, to do much of anything?although she had managed to put together lists dividing her possessions between her two daughters...
Ultimately, if cancer treatment shifts to include the new drugs, the definition of cancer may have to evolve. "Someday," says Folkman, "we may treat cancer as a chronic, manageable disease, very much like we treat heart disease now." Until then, the trials continue...
Part of the problem for very young children is that drinking too much juice can lead to chronic diarrhea. Their intestines just aren't ready yet to digest quite so much sugar. Also, juice doesn't fill you up the way solid foods do, making it easier to consume extra calories--and contributing to excessive weight gain later...
...just 2 1/2 months to approve a new cancer treatment, you know it's got to be some kind of breakthrough. And indeed the drug called Gleevec, which was given the go-ahead last week in record time, has produced dramatic results in patients with a rare malignancy called chronic myeloid leukemia. It's too early to say just how good Gleevec is. But the drug's success so far makes one thing clear. When designing a safe, effective treatment for a particular cancer, it pays to learn as much as possible about its underlying molecular biology...
...Chronic myeloid leukemia is one of those rare cancers that occur as the result of a single genetic accident--in this case, a mutation that causes blood cells to multiply uncontrollably. Gleevec works by blocking the chemical signal responsible for that wayward growth...