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AILING. DARRYL STRAWBERRY, 38, suspended New York Yankees slugger, after a CAT scan revealed that his colon cancer, diagnosed and treated in 1998, might have spread to lymph nodes near the original tumor; in Tampa, Fla. He will undergo more tests this week. Strawberry is also battling accusations that he violated terms of his probation after an April 1999 arrest on drug charges...
...John Wayne Cancer Center in Santa Monica, Calif., are working on developing biological markers that could identify microscopic tumors as they travel through the blood. As many as 20% of women with early breast cancer whose tumor has not, as far as anyone can tell, spread to the lymph nodes have a recurrence of the malignancy after their treatment. Current thinking is that they must already have had so-called micrometastases in their bloodstream and that a blood test might eventually uncover the problem ahead of time. Depending on the result, doctors could then pursue more aggressive treatment...
Does this guy take anything seriously? Well, the answer is yes...and no. A few months ago--after wrapping the gross-out comedy Road Trip--Green, 28, was found to have cancer and underwent back-to-back surgical procedures to remove a diseased testicle and potentially damaged lymph nodes. Clearly it was no laughing matter. To help himself cope, he turned his ordeal into an MTV comedy special that will air May 23. "Basically," he says, "it shifted my attention away from feeling sorry for myself...
...hour show includes graphic scenes of his lymph-node surgery ("There's an extreme close-up of my intestines being taken out") tempered with Green's usual edgy humor ("When you talk about removing something like that from your body, there's always room for laughs"). Now 20 lbs. lighter and just off pain killers, Green hopes the show will raise awareness of testicular cancer, which strikes mostly young men and has about a 96% recovery rate if treated early...
...borders were clean and it had not spread to her lymph nodes," Weir said...