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When Ronald Reagan's doctors announced two years ago that the President suffered from colon cancer, the world also learned that his brother Neil had received the same diagnosis. That apparently incidental detail did not surprise cancer researchers. They have long known that family members can share a genetic predisposition to the disease, but the exact mechanism was a mystery. Last week scientists in Britain and Israel reported in the journal Nature that they had discovered that there is a faulty gene that triggers a rare form of colon cancer and found its general location. The discovery, said Sir Walter...
...accounts for less than 1% of the 170,000 new cases of colorectal cancerdiagnosed in the U.S. and Britain each year. That led Bodmer to ask, "Could the same gene be involved in the normal run of colon cancers?" The researchers analyzed tumors removed from 45 patients with common colorectal cancer. Result: the section of chromosome 5 that contains the FAP gene was missing in more than 25% of the cases. The finding suggested that such cancers occur only after one protective gene is lost and the other is inactivated. Says Gastroenterologist Sidney Winawer, of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer...
Cotton himself was born 51 years ago in Colon, at the northern end of the 51-mile-long canal. "Born and raised here, right alongside the canal, and so were my kids," he says. "It is tough to say goodbye when you are fourth generation...
Rosenberg is most widely known as the spokesman for the team of doctors that performed colon surgery on Ronald Reagan in 1985. At a nationally televised press conference he began his remarks with the chilling statement "The President has cancer." But Rosenberg also created news 16 months ago, when he and his NCI team published their initial reports about IL-2 therapy on humans, which the press generally heralded as a cancer "breakthrough...
Earlier yesterday, Hernandez-Colon met withDean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences A.Michael Spence to discuss establishing a channelfor increasing awareness of Puerto Rican culturethrough the Center for International Affairs, saidS. Allen counter Jr., director of the HarvardFoundation...