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TAKING A SHOT AT CANCER A vaccine that doctors custom-make for each patient may be able to treat the deadly skin cancer melanoma. In two early studies, the inoculation generated immune cells that attacked cancerous tumors, in many cases shrinking them...
...Beauty marks are not so beautiful. Though doctors have long known that large, abnormal-looking moles can turn malignant, they now say ordinary MOLES may be risky too. People with lots of them (100 or more) may have the same odds of developing a melanoma as those who've had repeated sunburns...
There may be a new heartbreak of PSORIASIS. An ultraviolet-light therapy called PUVA, when used for years to treat severe psoriasis, significantly raises the risk of the deadly skin cancer melanoma...
Perhaps there was a reason for the sentiment. In 1982 Nettles had written to her daughter, informing her that she had had her eye removed because of a melanoma. The cancer, however, did not go into remission. Terrie Nettles said her mother contacted her again in 1984, saying she was so deep into the movement she didn't know how to get out, that "there wasn't a graceful way to leave." In 1985 her mother said she was sending Terrie a "couple of hundred bucks" because "the time was coming close and coming to a point where they were...
DIED. NOEL KEANE, 58, lawyer and controversial champion of surrogate parenting; of melanoma; in Dearborn, Michigan. Keane pioneered artificial-insemination contracts between husbands of infertile wives and willing child bearers. He helped broker 600 such arrangements...