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Today, as always, Maya Prabhu is above all things proper, and at all times dressed for a garden party. She dons a fairly ubiquitous hat ("I don't want melanoma or carcinoma by the time l'm 25, l'm lucky that hats are fashionable, but l'd wear them even if they weren't.") She often wears dresses, and with dresses, she always wears pantyhose. "That's just," she says, "the way I was brought...
...Skin cancer is now as common as all other cancers combined, says a new study. Up to 1.2 million cases of nonlethal malignancy turn up every year, along with some 32,000 cases of potentially lethal malignant melanoma. The numbers are still on the rise...
Since my 37-year-old wife was killed by malignant melanoma 1 1/2 years ago, news of how cancer may be attacked has passed through my mind with a sigh and a feeling that it just doesn't matter anymore. I am cynical when I read of "advances" in cancer treatment, though I am inspired by the work of scientists. Their efforts, combined with education on preventive measures, ( give me hope that others may not have to live through the same atrocity...
...Molecule of the Year. But now there is a new contender for notoriety -- MTS1, as Alexander Kamb and his colleagues refer to the multiple tumor- suppressor gene they have just discovered. "Multiple" refers to the fact that defects in this gene can cause many kinds of cancer, including melanoma, lung, breast and brain tumors. In fact, functional copies of MTS1 may be missing in more than 50% of all human cancers...
...protrude from tumor cells like spikes on a medieval ball and chain. At the meeting of the American Society for Cancer Research last week, Dr. David Berd of Thomas Jefferson University presented the most encouraging evidence to date that the vaccine strategy may work. Berd told of inoculating 47 melanoma patients with a vaccine made of their own tumor cells inactivated by radiation. Three years later, 60% remained tumor-free, compared with 20% in the unvaccinated control group. The approach works best, apparently, in patients who have tumors small enough to be surgically removed but whose disease shows signs...