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Sometimes it takes a stricken celebrity or two to bring home a new truth about a disease. In the course of a few days, both Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Presidential candidate John Edwards, and White House spokesman Tony Snow revealed that they are not just battling recurrences of cancer but also contending with malignancies that have spread and are no longer curable. Many Americans were stunned to hear that the Edwardses will continue their quest for the White House, with Elizabeth campaigning despite metastatic breast cancer. Snow, who was treated for colon cancer two years ago and now has tumor...
...research and drug development. "We have a ton of drugs that work for breast cancer - eight or nine - more than for any other cancer," says Dr. Christy Russell, co-director of the Norris Breast Center at the University of Southern California. The approach for someone with metastatic disease like Elizabeth Edwards, says Russell, is to use a drug until it stops working - as it almost inevitably will - and then switch to something else, possibly buying years of relatively good health...
...started out well for Harvard, which won the opening doubles point. At the No. 1 spot, sophomore Beier Ko and freshman Lena Litvak beat Pacific’s Fisher and Jolanta Twarowska, 8-4, and senior Preethi Mukundan and freshman Elizabeth Brook captured the deciding match at No. 2 doubles...
...Edwardses have acknowledged that Elizabeth's cancer is not curable. The best that can be hoped for is to shrink whatever tumors are present and try to prevent more from cropping up. Most patients do respond to drugs for a while, and then relapse. The standard care is to stay on a drug as long as it's working and switch when it stops - nearly all drugs eventually stop working - until doctors run out of drugs...
...Patients whose cancer moves into the bone tend to survive longer than those with metastases in the liver or lung. Russell says that she has a few patients who have survived 10 years with bone involvement, but this is extremely rare. The fact that Elizabeth Edwards relapsed just a little over two years after initial treatment is a bad sign, suggesting that her cancer is very aggressive. On the plus side, though, is that Edwards' disease is "low volume", according to her oncologist, Lisa Carey of Chapel Hill, N.C., meaning little tumor is present. Also favorable, says Russell, is that...