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Doctors can now safety treat melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer, with out causing disfiguration, a study released today by fore doctors a Harvard affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) shows...
...report, appearing today in the New England Journal of Medicine, says that directors can now perform the surgey while removing significantly less skin then previously required. Calvin Day, Clinical and Research Fellow in Dermatology and principal author of the study, said yesterday. As a result, the melanoma can be removed without major surgery, he added...
...procedure advocated in their study--well not only dramatically reduce scarring but will also save patients money. Dr. Ronald A. Malt. professor of Surgery and senior author of the report, said--Monday. Because the simpler operation does not require that the patient be hospitalized, removing a melanoma might cost as little as $175. Malt added. Treatment currently costs close...
...showed noticeable improvement, five of them enough to be classified as partial remissions. Tumors shrank substantially in three of eleven patients with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow. Though it is too early in the treatment of patients with lymphoma (a cancer of the lymph system) or melanoma (skin cancer) to assess the effect of the drug, the attending doctors see encouraging signs. Discussing the early results, Frank Rauscher, head of research at the A.C.S., was emphatic. Said he: "The answer is yes. There is definitely activity against cancer. Abundantly, clearly...
...says, a small pigmented lesion had appeared above Roosevelt's left eye. In following years it seems to have enlarged and grown downward into the eyebrow. But after 1943 the lesion was gone. That leads Goldsmith to believe that the lesion was a sign of malignant melanoma-a form of skin cancer that can spread to other organs-and that it was surgically removed in 1943. He also suspects that when Lahey was called to the White House in March 1944, the physician found that the cancer had metastasized-perhaps to the gastrointestinal tract; several sources confirm that Roosevelt...