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...fact thought he might become a doctor himself, for the security. But that turned out to be a hard promise to keep. The wound he suffered in Italy three weeks before the end of the war left him immobilized below the neck. When they eventually shipped him home to die, Cramer writes, "Bina had to pick eight cigarette butts out of his plaster cast. She told her sisters: they'd used her boy for an ashtray on the train...
...Americans is increasing, and because the disease most often strikes men who are in their 60s or 70s, more of them are now afflicted. When the baby-boom generation matures, the number will balloon. "As men live longer and do not succumb to heart disease and stroke, more will die from prostate cancer," says Dr. William Catalona, a urologist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. "And it is not a nice death...
Much of the uncertainty could be eliminated, of course, if doctors could tell, while a prostate cancer is still small, if it is the lethally aggressive or relatively benign type. In other words, whether a man will die of it or merely with it. "The challenge," as the British Medical Journal editorializes, "is to separate the pussycats from the tigers and identify aggressive tumors...
Hood's immediate objective is to find biological markers that will characterize a tumor as essentially harmless or dangerous while it is still small--which would eliminate much of the uncertainty about decisions to treat, how to treat or not to treat prostate cancer. "A great many men who die in their their 70s and 80s have small prostate cancers that haven't done anything," Hood says, and wouldn't have benefited from treatment...
...When you come down to it, auctioneering is a lugubrious trade. It thrives on death, divorce and debt, and the pink, deferential Brit in the now empty Park Avenue living room is to upper-class America what buzzards once were to luckless prospectors in Arizona. When the famous die, the salesmen perk up--but the trouble is that the really good art and antiques do not necessarily belong to the really famous. Ergo, find a way of using their fame to endorse their possessions, and turn the sale into a relic hunt...