Word: oncologist
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...reasons for the crisis are complex. One obvious cause is communism's long and repressive reign. "Health care is no different from any other realm of our life," says Mikhail Prudkin, a Moscow oncologist. "All these problems did not emerge just in these past five or 10 years. They have been piling up for more than 70 years." Industrial pollution, careless handling of radioactive materials, poor safety standards in the workplace have all contributed...
That discretion applies even to doctors who infuriated him. While he names many people who were kind, and dedicates the book to a surgeon (along with his brother and his first post-paralysis assistant, Daniel Voll), he omits, for example, the name of an oncologist whom he found condescending and chilly. The exclusion is not to avoid a libel suit, Price says. It's just good manners...
Angiogenesis is the harbinger of metastasis. The same vessels that feed the tumor also provide it with avenues of escape. Not all the myriad cells shed by tumors survive the turbulent voyage through the bloodstream, notes experimental oncologist Ann Chambers of the London Regional Cancer Centre in Ontario. But those that do eventually slip through blood-vessel walls with ease. Using a video camera attached to a microscopic lens, Chambers has watched in wonder as melanoma and breast-cancer cells, injected into mice, become lodged in capillary walls, then crawl out into the liver. Three days later, her camera resolves...
...year-old dietitian living in Pittsburg, California, made a remarkable recovery and became tumor-free. But she knew her future was still menacing. Scientists had recognized for several years that ovarian and breast cancer sometimes ran together in families, as if linked in some way. Fisher's oncologist proposed a once unthinkable step: a "prophylactic" double mastectomy. Removing her breasts, the doctor said, could save her life...
According to Dr. Daniel F. Hayes, assistant professor of medicine at the Medical School and a medical oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, BRCA1 was the first gene to be "clearly associated as a cause of common malignancy...