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PRUNING POLYPS Superaspirin to the rescue? Preliminary findings suggest that COX-2 inhibitors--the arthritis-fighting "superaspirin"--may one day help prevent colon cancer. Researchers administered high doses to patients with familial adenomatous polyposis--a devastating disease in which the colon can become so overrun with polyps that the entire organ must be removed. After six months, the number of potentially malignant polyps was reduced 25%. If COX-2 inhibitors can work in such extreme cases, researchers hope they can prevent polyps in patients with a mere predisposition to colon cancer...
Golub and colleagues at Boston's Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, meanwhile, are learning that tumors from a specific category--lung, prostate, colon--can be divided into previously unsuspected subcategories. Golub says of his specialty, for example, "We're trying to understand why some men die with prostate cancer rather than of prostate cancer, whereas others have aggressive disease that kills them...
...when I went up to Capitol Hill in May 1987 with the N.A.S. report in hand, I promised that long before the genome project was completed we would have cloned many of the key genes predisposing humans to Alzheimer's or to cancers of the breast and colon, all diseases known to run in families. Happily, time has seen our science so move...
SHOVE THIS! Fiber-optic colonoscopes are better than barium enemas in detecting colon cancer...
Officially, Coelho resigned for health reasons, and his maladies are real. He suffers from epileptic seizures, and checked into a Virginia hospital last week because of diverticulitis, an inflamed colon. Also, Coelho told a friend that an MRI had revealed a cyst on his brain, which may be the reason he has been suffering more frequent seizures. Tipper Gore and campaign manager Donna Brazille visited him last Tuesday; the next day, when Brazille called, Coelho told her, "It's not good...