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CyberKnife has its limitations. It cannot be used to treat blood-borne cancers, and because it is a local therapy, it cannot be used alone to treat metastatic disease???when the cancer has spread to involve not only the original area, but other organs or tissues as well. It can, however, be combined with other systemic treatments, such as chemotherapy, to treat metastatic disease, and has often been used to treat solid metastatic tumors most commonly found in the lungs, liver, spine and brain. And the technology is continually evolving. The company's Synchrony program allows doctors to irradiate lung...
...empathy with children. During the campaign, he took time out to talk to grade school kids?about civics, peanut butter, civil liberties?and never talked down to them. Once Carter asked a correspondent about his family. The reporter mentioned that one of his children was suffering from an incurable disease???and turned to see tears running down Carter's cheeks...
...guardhouse, oftener in the infirmary or some soft job. Says Author Deval: "A soldier may be as ignorant as he likes as to whether his heart is located on the left or the right . . . but what he must do. what is indispensable for him, is to know one disease???just one. But that one he must know as thoroughly as Widal or the Mayo brothers...
...face was yellowish. He looked haggard, nervous, irritable. He sounded querulous. An internal disease, which last summer he feared would kill him before he could complete his newest theory, has made him so. That disease???plus the harrying visitors who buzzed and scraped about him the past fortnight, and years of indoor, sedentary work. Dr. Einstein, like so many other Jews and scholars, takes no physical exercise...
...Spared. "Although potatoes and cabbages do not actually have chicken pox and scarlet fever, they have diseases which correspond to them to some extent. Hence plants can be and are used in place of rabbits, rats, guinea pigs, for years martyred in the cause of discovering sources of human disease???Dr. James Johnson, University of Wisconsin...