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EXERCISE TO SLOW COLON CANCER...
Ironically, the trial that exposed the heart risks of COX-2 inhibitors was a cancer experiment, designed to test whether Vioxx or Celebrex could prevent the recurrence of colon cancer. It was halted before any conclusion could be reached. The situation was even more frustrating for patients in a second trial. There, scientists did indeed find a lower recurrence of colon tumors in patients taking Vioxx. "There was a reduction in adenoma recurrence," notes the study's lead author, Dr. Robert Bresalier of MD Anderson Cancer Center. "How that balances with the potential risk remains to be seen...
...Battling colon cancer two years ago, Washington State's senate majority leader James West, who was at the time also a mayoral candidate, granted an interview to the Spokane Spokesman-Review in which he confided that his illness had brought him closer to his maker. He had come to believe that his supporters' prayers had helped drive back the malignancy. West joked that he imagined God, inundated with requests for his recovery, was barking, "Get me an angel. I need to know who this Jim West...
...billboards throughout the Los Angeles metro area. "We're not trying to sell a city," says Moreno. "We're selling Angels baseball, period." He has tapped into the region's booming Hispanic population by ramping up Spanish- language advertising and signing Latino stars like Guerrero and pitcher Bartolo Colon. The Angels say they doubled the percentage of Hispanic fans over the past four years and have attracted more season ticketholders from Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, beyond the team's base. In-stadium advertising revenues have more than tripled, to $17 million, since Moreno took over--the team...
...about $800 million, according to Creative Strategies Research. One industry leader, Warner-Lambert (1984 sales: $3.2 billion), predicts the home health-kit market will grow 27% annually for the next five years. C.B. Fleet's kits for detecting blood in the stool--a possible sign of colitis, ulcers and colon cancer --doubled after President Reagan underwent surgery in July for the removal of a polyp from his colon...