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...Today” show co-host Katie Couric received the School of Public Health’s highest honor yesterday for her efforts to increase national colon cancer awareness...
...Couric’s husband, Jay Monahan, was diagnosed with colon cancer at age 41. Nine months later, he died from the disease, which is treatable if caught in the early stages...
Couric said that “love and desperation” caused her to become an expert on colon cancer during those painful months. And she emphasized that she felt it was her duty to share her new knowledge with as many people as possible in order to save others from the tragedy she and her family faced...
DIED. GISELE MACKENZIE, 76, Canadian-born singer and 1950s TV star; of colon cancer; in Burbank, Calif. The daughter of a Winnipeg doctor, she was a regular on Your Hit Parade, where she and such co-stars as Snooky Lanson and Dorothy Collins would perform the top seven songs of each week. She was later a regular on The Sid Caesar Show and starred in her own short-lived variety series...
ERBITUX Martha Stewart may have still more reason to regret selling her ImClone stock. In June, ImClone reported that its drug Erbitux, in combination with chemotherapy, reduced tumor growth in the colon up to 55%, putting the controversial drug on track for FDA consideration. Erbitux targets cancer cells by blocking their ability to absorb growth factors they need to develop. Trials for treating other tumors, including those in the lung, head and neck, are under...