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...Cinderella story - a perfect matching of drug to cancer. The specific cancers for which Gleevec has wrought such miracles - chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) - rely pretty exclusively on a pathway that Gleevec targets, making these diseases ideal victims for a targeted therapy. But breast, lung, colon and prostate cancers, the leading types of cancer in the U.S., aren't as accommodating...
...doctors at ASCO were taking the next logical step: if one drug isn't enough to control these tumors, then maybe creating a cocktail of several drugs, and adding them to chemotherapy, will be. In some ways, it's a fallback strategy, says Dr. Leonard Saltz, a colon cancer specialist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. "Nobody set out to develop [these drugs] as an additive to chemotherapy," he says. "They were supposed to replace chemo, and make us look back and say, ?Can you believe that we had a barbaric age when we were treating patients with something that...
...Muskie moment." TONY SNOW, new White House press secretary and colon-cancer survivor, after tearing up in his first televised briefing when asked about his LIVESTRONG bracelet. Senator Muskie famously became emotional in front of REPORTERS during his 1972 presidential campaign...
...occasional Bush critic, Snow says he was a liberal until he read Marx in college "and realized it was all indecipherable hokum." Colon cancer kept him off the air for eight weeks last year. During that time, says Snow, an attendee of Catholic and Episcopal churches, prayers by strangers increased his faith. He took the White House job after a scan of his vital organs came back "pristine...
...resembles a human baby is so strong that,according to The New York Times, researchers have recorded positive responses to "the young of virtually every mammalian species, fuzzy-headed birds like Japanese cranes, woolly bear caterpillars, a bobbing balloon, a big round rock stacked on a smaller rock, a colon, a hyphen and a close parenthesis typed in succession." : - ) There. Doesn't it just make you want to go "awwwwww...