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Most cancer specialists, though, believe that while Erbitux and the science behind its development are radical, both are solid. Erbitux can home in on a protein beacon found on 80% of tumors, making it a promising candidate for treating a range of cancers, from breast to lung to colon. "Nobody has ever questioned the value or the trustworthiness of the science," says Dr. Larry Norton, head of solid tumor oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City...
DIED. CAROLINE KNAPP, 42, humorist, whose readers learned about the darker side of her life--her 20-year struggle with alcoholism--in her 1996 best seller, Drinking: A Love Story; of lung cancer; in Cambridge, Mass...
Puopolo’s heart was perforated in two places and one lung was punctured; by the time he arrived at the hospital just minutes later, his heart had stopped and doctors feared that his brain had already become irreparably damaged...
...preliminary but promising finding in lung cancer, doctors discovered that a special form of vitamin A might reverse some of the changes in lung tissue caused by smoking. In a small study, former smokers who took the vitamin A derivative produced higher levels of a protein thought to be important in suppressing tumor growth than ex-smokers who took a placebo...
DIED. SIHUNG LUNG, 72, Taiwanese actor who played key roles in director Ang Lee's best-known films, including last year's Oscar-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (he was Sir Te, the sage court official who receives the 400-year-old sword); of liver failure; in Taipei...