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Good Guys & Bad Guys By Joe Nocera Portfolio; 292 pages...
...catch my train. I have nowhere to stay tonight." The 53-year-old middle school teacher had seen the Pope twice while he was alive, once from his apartment overlooking St. Peter's square and once, in the early '90s, when he visited her hometown of Nocera Inferiore. As for seeing him before he is buried, Paolillo would have to settle for television. "I just wanted to see him. I don't know why I came all this way, but it wasn't for curiosity...
...NOCERA...
...Beth Nocera was a fighter, her husband Louis recalls. She bravely battled breast cancer for six years. She endured surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and multiple drug treatments. She fought to get into a clinical trial for Herceptin, but her previous treatment made her ineligible. She signed up for a lottery that the drug manufacturer had established to distribute its scarce supplies. Her number didn't come up. In July 1998, after nearly a year on a waiting list, she finally got her Herceptin. But by then the cancer was so widespread that Nocera, 41 and the mother of two, was dead...
Going strictly by the numbers, Nocera's case is not typical. Most clinical trials--80%, according to one report--have trouble mustering enough volunteers to get started. But for the desperately ill, a clinical trial often represents one last chance--even if that chance is participation in a Phase I study unlikely to help them. "The cancer patients I work with are an ignored species," says Duke University researcher Dr. Johannes Vieweg. "Nobody wants to deal with them because there's so little that can be done. We try to address their unmet needs...