Word: lesions
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...this therapy, a non-toxic chemical is injected or applied to a lesion where a disease is present, and then light is shone to activate the chemical. Once activated, the chemical creates compounds like free radicals that become toxic to the target cells...
...those unwilling to compromise by adopting the soggy Jack LaLanne look or swimming in the safety of a net-protected "pool," doctors have some advice for coping with the sting. Rinse the lesion with cool seawater, they say, and once dry, apply a medicated cream to lessen the pain. Physicians warn against common but counter-productive remedies such as dousing the sting with drinking water, rubbing it with sand, trying to suck the venom from it and - especially - urinating on it. These "therapies," doctors say, are all certain to aggravate the sting's burning sensation, and the last one ... well...
...five years after diagnosis. Patients with slower-growing tumors have a 25% chance of surviving to five years. It's not clear yet what kind of tumor the senator has, or which treatment option he will follow - the standard therapy for glioma usually involves surgery to remove the malignant lesion, followed by chemotherapy and radiation...
Depending on where the senator's tumor is located, Kennedy could expect to return to near-normal functioning. If the lesion is in a location where surgeons can remove it easily, then he has a good chance of controlling the cancer with additional chemotherapy and radiation. "I have patients 20 and 30 years out from diagnosis, and they are functioning normally and doing well," says Brem. "We hope that Senator Kennedy becomes one of them...
...because melanoma is one of the more unpredictable types of cancer, doctors say he remains at risk for not only spread from the excised cancers but new growths as well. "We know that there is a 40% risk of melanoma coming back with metastases even though the primary lesion is taken out," says Dr. Antoni Ribas, a cancer surgeon at UCLA Medical Center, who has not treated the Senator...