Word: curely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matter of hours patients had jammed their doctors' phone lines begging for a chance to test the miracle cancer cure. Investors scrambled to buy a piece of the action, turning the shares of a little company called EntreMed into the most volatile stock on Wall Street. Cancer scientists raced to the phones and fax lines to make sure everyone knew about their research too, generating a new round of headlines and perpetuating the second major medical media frenzy in as many weeks. It was Viagra all over again, without the jokes...
...quote that nailed the story, however, and put it on the front page, was the one attributed to James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double helix and one of the most famous scientists in the world. "Judah," he is supposed to have said, "is going to cure cancer in two years...
...Texas, who three years ago found she has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. She has a four-year-old daughter she'd like to see grow up and a husband with whom she'd like to grow old. When friends started calling excitedly last week with news of a possible cure, she resolved to maintain a philosophical calm. "I try to live in the moment because that helps level out the emotional roller coaster," she says. Still, the moment sometimes escapes her. "I am not perfect," she says. "I am not the Dalai Lama." Ironically, it's patients like Smith...
...City, who is pursuing still another approach to anti-angiogenesis, says he doesn't need to stop tumor growth completely to judge his experiment a success: "If we can make patients with metastatic breast cancer live 20 years and not have symptoms, that may be as good as a cure...
Malkin is quick to point out that one growth-factor inhibitor isn't going to cure cancer. Cancer is a complicated disease. Tumors usually are made up of different types of cells, expressing different genes, sensitive to different growth factors and therefore responding to different drugs. "When you are trying to kill cancer cells, you're always likely to need combination treatment," says Merck's Scolnick. Like AIDS treatments, the new generation of cancer drugs will need to be combined with older drugs and possibly with one another to be most effective...