Word: oncologist
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...fantastic voyage that scientists have taken into the heart of the cancer cell. "The life and death of cells is being worked out, and the dozens and dozens of molecules in the body that participate in those pathways are now becoming targets for therapy," says Alan Houghton, a medical oncologist and immunologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City...
...fantastic voyage that scientists are taking into the heart of the cancer cell. "The life and death of cells is being worked out, and the dozens and dozens of molecules in the body that participate in those pathways are now becoming targets for therapy," says Alan Houghton, a medical oncologist and immunologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, in Manhattan...
...patients in the US each year. In the drug’s very first test, every patient went into remission. In the most recent results, 30 percent showed no chromosomal sign of disease and appeared to have been cured. "This drug is amazing," says Richard Stone, an oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in Boston, who has been testing Glivec (also known as an STI, for signal transduction inhibitor). "Even patients who are near death, at the end stage of this disease, are going into remission...
...treatments will fail clinical trials. But doctors who treat the disease are experiencing a surge of optimism the likes of which they have never seen. "It’s no longer spin the wheel, let’s try this drug, maybe it will work," says Henry Friedman, a neuro-oncologist at Duke University Medical Center. "We’re going to know why a drug is or isn’t working." And given the nature of cancer and the scientists who study it, if one approach doesn’t fly, there’ll be no shortage of crazy ideas to replace...
Just as the title doctor becomes part of a physician's name, so the role becomes part of his identity. Advanced esophageal cancer, diagnosed three years ago, forced oncologist Dan Frimmer to retire at age 58. The cancer doctor had become a cancer patient, but 25 years of medical practice prevented him from viewing himself as anything but a healer. "Of what value am I to people now?" he asked himself after his first round of chemotherapy and radiation, then answered his own question: "I could advise people from a different point of view--from the other side...