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Gould, who was Agassiz professor of zoology and a professor of geology, died in May 2002, ten weeks after being diagnosed with a lung cancer that had spread to his liver, brain, and other organs...
...wife, Rhonda Roland Shearer, now claims that the doctors—an oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and two radiologists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital—overlooked a centimeter-wide lesion in the upper lobe of his lung that later became cancerous...
DIED. FRANK GORSHIN, 72, rubbery-faced impressionist-actor who channeled his passion for film idols, nourished as a teenage film usher in Pittsburgh, Pa., into a 50-year career in Las Vegas clubs, on TV and in more than 80 movies; of lung cancer, emphysema and pneumonia; in Burbank, Calif. With his apery of Al Jolson, James Cagney and Marlon Brando, Gorshin was a regular on The Ed Sullivan Show, where he was a guest the night the Beatles made their famous U.S. TV debut. ("Look at all these kids that came to see me!" he said backstage...
There's another, more important part of the equation. The worst side effect of cancer that I can think of is being dead. The cure rate for all lung cancer patients is 14%; it's even lower for esophageal cancer. Hell, the treatment alone can kill you, given the toxicity of cancer drugs. "You tell me, what risk are these people willing to take?" asks Altorki. Only so much, it seems; about half of the surviving subjects in my study opted...
...people a drug that might not work and might increase their risk of heart attack? "It's going to make it very difficult to do long-term-treatment projects," says Keresztes. Dubinett's approach is to recruit ex-smokers, people who have already substantially increased their risk of both lung cancer and heart attack. Pick your poison...