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Still, the drug is not a cure-all. The NIH panel reported that it is ineffective against breast-cancer cells that are not estrogen dependent and seems to have little effect in premenopausal women, who respond best to a combination of chemotherapy drugs. The panel stressed that most older breast- cancer victims whose lymph nodes have not been invaded by malignant cells need neither tamoxifen nor chemotherapy after surgery, but urged that they have frequent checkups...
...industry, however, has been no more successful in politics than in shoe stores. Last week the President resisted the pressure and refused to approve shoe quotas. "Protectionism is both ineffective and extremely expensive," he said. "It is a crippling cure, far more dangerous than any economic illness...
...drugs have stirred more excitement and hope than interferon, which was widely heralded in the late 1970s as a potential cure for cancer and viral diseases. Painstakingly extracted in minute amounts from living cells, the substance showed great promise in laboratory tests. And by the early 1980s, genetic engineering had made possible the production of interferon in quantities large enough to begin extensive testing in humans. But soon afterward disillusionment set in. Although interferon slowed the growth of some tumors, it had no effect on others, and it often produced disturbing flulike symptoms. Interferon, it seems, was not a magic...
Cousins' writings, along with a glut of similar books, television features and articles -- some by doctors -- have convinced many Americans that a positive mental attitude can help prevent and even cure a variety of ills, including cancer, and, conversely, that a negative outlook can increase vulnerability to disease. Last week the New England Journal published a study and an editorial that cast doubt on that popular view and stirred a tempest in the medical community...
Apparently convinced that the cure was more painful than the original ailment, Carter "pulled the rug out from under" his appointed inflation-buster, Feldstein says...