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Today more than 7 million Americans have been treated for cancer and survived, a number that is expected to swell to 10 million by the turn of the century. Three million have been cancer-free for at least five years, a time marker many cancer researchers consider an important milestone on the road to a complete "cure." Yet as a growing literature of articles and books by cancer survivors makes clear, the challenges these people face after the treatment is over are nearly as great as those posed by the disease...
...Another marker will note the former residence of Charles Lenox, a Harvard baker who had amassed a $14,000 fortune by the time of his death in the late 1800s...
...beneath that, in bright blue marker: "Give the Palestinians a state--like New Jersey...
...skin biopsies (soon found to be unnecessary) and blood samples were sent, along with pedigree data, to James Gusella, a young Canadian scientist working at Massachusetts General Hospital. Using a new technique, he was able to locate a DNA marker close to the Huntington's gene. It lay toward the tip of the short arm of chromosome 4. That discovery led to the development of a test, now 96% accurate, that can determine the presence of the errant gene long before any symptoms show...
Concerned about her own risk, Wexler dated but never married. Then she met -- and now lives in Manhattan with -- Dr. Herbert Pardes, head of the Columbia University medical center. "Around the time we found the marker for Huntington's, I found Herb, and it's been wonderful and fantastic," she says. "I've since realized how wrong it was for me to avoid sharing my life with someone. I held back not only because of doubts about passing the gene on to my children but because it would be unfair for my mate to be burdened, financially and emotionally, with...