Word: oncologist
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However, Ho said he was told by Kuo's doctor, Hope Rugo, a hematologist and oncologist with UCSF, that if Kuo receives an imperfect match there will be an 80 percent chance his body will reject the marrow...
...just the problem, insists Amsterdam psychiatrist Frank Koerselman, one of the few in Holland to buck the consensus. "Patients are scared by pain and the loss of their dignity, so they immediately start talking about active euthanasia," he said. "They are badly informed about alternatives." In particular, says oncologist Zbigniew Zylicz, who runs a hospice for dying cancer victims outside Arnhem, "the knowledge and practice are very low for palliative care," the art of easing pain in the final stage of a terminal illness. Zylicz estimates that a quarter of the 400 or so dying patients he has treated asked...
...will kill 554,740 people in the U.S. this year. Rather, the optimism stems from an extraordinarily rich epoch of scientific discovery that has revealed the innermost secrets of malignant cells and suggested rational strategies for attacking them. "Until we knew what was wrong with the cancer cell," says oncologist Dr. Bert Vogelstein of Johns Hopkins University, "we couldn't even think about ways of targeting treatment...
...incremental improvements shows promise of pushing the death rate down. Already doctors have learned how to keep the disease at bay for months, and sometimes even to produce complete remissions that may last for years. "We're running a marathon, not a sprint," observes Dr. Eugenie Kleinerman, a pediatric oncologist at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. "What's important is not how fast we run the first two miles but when we cross the finish line...
When that did not happen immediately, many clinicians gave up on monoclonal antibodies--prematurely, it turns out. "Monoclonal antibodies were always a fantastic idea," says Dr. Mark Kaminski, a University of Michigan oncologist. "But because we didn't see the results we had hoped for, enthusiasm waned. Now it's time to start believing again...