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...magic of statistics, ABC is No. 1 overall--and CBS is too! Today's buzz: Smallville, the WB's teen-Superman series; on ABC, Jason Alexander's sitcom Bob Patterson and college-girl-turned-spy thriller Alias, which ABC hypes as a combination of Dark Angel and the cure for cancer. "Hype is just an acronym," Alexander tells the ad buyers. "It stands for Hope You Purchase Everything...
...strategy it represents. A full 30 years have passed since President Richard Nixon declared war on cancer and called for a national commitment comparable to the effort to land on the moon or split the atom. But over those three decades, researchers have come up with one potential miracle cure after another?only to suffer one disappointment after another. Aside from surgery, which almost invariably leaves behind some malignant cells, the standard treatment for most cancers continues to be radiation and chemotherapy?relatively crude disease-fighting weapons that have limited effectiveness and leave patients weak and nauseated...
...compounds known as angiogenesis inhibitors keep tumors from building new blood vessels to supply themselves with food and oxygen. Three years ago, Nobel laureate James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, was quoted as saying Dr. Judah Folkman, the Harvard researcher, would use these inhibitors to "cure cancer within two years...
...idea that a cure for cancer might be just around the corner got a lot of attention a few years ago after James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, was quoted on the front page of the New York Times saying that it was going to happen within two years. Watson later claimed he had been misquoted; he had meant to predict only that certain compounds designed to starve cancerous tumors would be proved effective in two years...
Well, it's been three years, and cancer is clearly still with us. But dramatic progress has been made. Last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced with great fanfare the approval of a new drug, Gleevec, that doesn't cure all cancers but seems to be effective in treating two rare types that are particularly resistant to conventional treatment (see story below). Meanwhile, the broader approach Watson was promoting--one that would work against a wide array of cancers--is still very much alive and may yet deliver on its original promise...