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...Andy, you have a tumor." He felt a warm unease. Grove is a steely man, but these weren't words he had expected to hear at 58. Grove discovered in late 1994 that he had a tumor growing on the side of his prostate gland. It wasn't immediately life threatening, but the doctors couldn't seem to agree on a course of action...
POSITIVE PROSTATE FINDINGS In patients whose prostate cancer hasn't spread, the odds of dying from the disease within 10 years drop to less than 5% if the entire gland is surgically removed...
...landmark paper published late last week in the journal Nature confirmed what the headlines had been screaming for days: researchers at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Scotland, had indeed pulled off what many experts thought might be a scientific impossibility. From a cell in an adult ewe's mammary gland, embryologist Ian Wilmut and his colleagues managed to create a frisky lamb named Dolly (with apologies to Ms. Parton), scoring an advance in reproductive technology as unsettling as it was startling. Unlike offspring produced in the usual fashion, Dolly does not merely take after her biological mother...
RECOVERING. DESMOND TUTU, 65, Nobel Peace Laureate, retired Archbishop and chairman of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission; from surgery to remove most of a cancerous prostate gland. Tests indicated the cancer had not spread...
...shown that cure rates with external-beam radiation therapy are 40% to 60% of all patients and 80% to 90% of patients who are considered to be surgical candidates. The later cure rates are the same as those for patients who undergo radical prostatectomy, or excision of the prostate gland. We implore your readers to investigate all available treatment options through consultations with radiation oncologists as well as urologic surgeons. ALAN POLLACK, M.D. GUNAR K. ZAGARS, M.D. Department of Radiotherapy M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Houston...