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...plan was to follow the women for an average of eight years and record how many suffered from heart attacks, strokes, blood clots, hip fractures or colon cancer. From the outset, a safety board monitored the data to ensure that the study would be stopped before its scheduled ending in 2005 if there was evidence of such a clear benefit that it would be unethical to withhold the drug treatment from those women in the control group. It would also be stopped if, conversely, the risks of HRT so obviously outweighed the benefits that women in the treatment group should...
...COLON CANCER Colon-cancer rates in the WHI were lower in women taking HRT, but doctors don't feel that the protection against colon cancer outweighs the risk of breast cancer. Early detection of colon cancer is the best weapon against widespread disease; regular colon checkups are a good idea. Eating fruits and vegetables and exercising could also help...
...Waksal's supporters say he deserves the credit. "Erbitux would not have gotten this far, this fast, without Sam," says Icahn, who held ImClone shares last year but sold them months before the FDA rejection. It was in April 1999 that Shannon Kellum, 28 and diagnosed with incurable colon cancer, began taking Erbitux. Within months her tumors had shrunk to a fifth their previous size. Much of the hype around ImClone was built on that one success. ImClone was so eager to cash in that, according to the FDA, it mishandled the clinical trials, prompting the agency to deny...
Most cancer specialists, though, believe that while Erbitux and the science behind its development are radical, both are solid. Erbitux can home in on a protein beacon found on 80% of tumors, making it a promising candidate for treating a range of cancers, from breast to lung to colon. "Nobody has ever questioned the value or the trustworthiness of the science," says Dr. Larry Norton, head of solid tumor oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City...
...seniors, we’re all familiar with the colon and the parenthesis. If they face left, we’re happy :-). If they face right, we’re sad :-(. The real diehards even know the asterisk kiss :-* and the cool shades of the number eight...