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Still, the new findings confirm what oncologists have long known - that, in general, aggressive treatment for older prostate-cancer patients does not significantly improve survival. Indeed, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS), the 10-year survival rate for prostate-cancer patients over age 65 who pursue aggressive treatment (surgery, radiation or chemotherapy) is 97%, slightly higher than the survival rate of the 66-to-74-year-old patients in the current study who chose no treatment. "Cancer is the scariest word in medicine for many patients. The first thought is, Oh, my God, I'm going...
Economist Marc J. Melitz has returned to Harvard this fall as a full professor after having left campus in 2006 for a two-year stint at Princeton. Melitz, who is well known for his research on international trade and firm-level responses to trade, was an assistant and associate professor at Harvard between 2000 to 2006. According to Economics Professor Ariel Pakes, Melitz “changed a whole field with his thesis” that presented a new model for international trade economics. Economics Department Chair John Y. Campbell said that Melitz’s work...
...During his time at the Lampoon Conan O’Brien told Burt Ward, the man known for his role as Robin in Batman, that he represented a security firm retained to protect his Robin costume during Ward's visit to Harvard. By masquerading as a security firm O’Brien stole the costume, allegedly one of Ward's few sources of income, and took it back to the castle where members of the Lampoon repeatedly tried it on until the police forced them to return it. But at 6’5” O’Brien...
Summers “had an unbelievable appetite” for understanding the economics of the decisions being made, says Stein, who has known Summers since the mid-80s when Stein first began as an associate professor at the Business School...
...rival warlords. Like Afghanistan too, out of that chaos arose an army of radical Islamist warriors who were determined to bring strict religious law and order to the country, but who were also open to funding from and cooperation with al-Qaeda. The first shots in what became known as the war on terror were fired by Somalia-based militants when they blew up the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in Tanzania on Aug. 7, 1998, killing 213 and 11 people, respectively. But Afghanistan, and later Pakistan, became the focus of the militant Islamic threat after...