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DIED. HOWARD KEEL, 85, beefy baritone who played opposite Betty Hutton, Doris Day and Jane Powell in such premier 1950s Hollywood musicals as Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Show Boat and Kiss Me Kate; of colon cancer; in Palm Desert, Calif. Keel rocketed to stardom as sharpshooter Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun, the first of a string of musicals he made for MGM. In the 1980s he revived his career on TV's Dallas as Clayton Farlow, the debonair tycoon who romanced matriarch Miss Ellie and confounded...
Defeat is something Zucker--who was a high-ranked junior tennis player and has twice beaten colon cancer--isn't used to. Ever since he embraced hard news and used stunts like outdoor concerts to turn Today into NBC's gold mine, Zucker has been the network's golden boy. From the time he got his start, doing advance research for NBC's coverage of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, "Jeff was tireless and energetic," says his boss Bob Wright. "In his kind of work, you have to anticipate everything and be willing to change on a dime. Jeff has that...
...continued to show troubling indications. The final straw was a piece of research that Merck conducted. It was a particularly careful study--a randomized, double-blind trial of 2,600 patients, comparing Vioxx with a placebo--designed to determine whether Vioxx might prevent the formation of polyps in the colon. The study was scheduled to last three years, but two weeks ago, the panel of doctors and statisticians that was monitoring the trial's safety data informed Merck that the evidence of cardiovascular problems in the subjects taking Vioxx was clear--so clear that the trial should be halted immediately...
...SKIN cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men--so common that a man in the U.S. is 33% more likely to get prostate cancer than a woman is to get breast cancer. Yet in many ways, treatment of prostate cancer lags behind that of breast, colon and brain cancer. That's why the Prostate Cancer Foundation last week issued a call for a new approach to the disease, which already afflicts 2 million American men and will strike 230,000 more this year...
Doctors also need to start talking to one another. I was surprised to learn that the various specialists who get involved in treating prostate cancer--urologists, radiation oncologists, medical oncologists--rarely consult with one another. The team approach has become standard in treating breast, colon and brain cancer, mainly because it works. "Having multidisciplinary care leads to a better outcome," says Carroll. His foundation emphasizes in particular that patients who are undergoing hormone therapy and have rising PSAs should consult a medical oncologist...