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...years of data, is bound to stir up controversy, however, because it suggests a minimalist approach for patients with no new symptoms. Doctors must always ask themselves whether a given test will do their patients any good, says Dr. Al Benson, the panel's co-chair and a medical oncologist at Northwestern University in Chicago. After all, he notes, "some of these tests are not entirely benign...
...year in the U.S. about 13,000 women develop cervical cancer and 4,800 die, making it the 11th leading cancer killer of American women. In 40% of newly diagnosed cases, the cancer has spread far enough that it requires treatment with radiation, says Dr. Edward Trimble, a gynecological oncologist at the NCI. "If all those women also received chemotherapy, we could probably save 1,000 to 2,000 lives" a year, he notes...
...women. Yet the nurses who consumed the most fiber (around 25 g a day) were no better off than the ones who ate the least (10 g a day). There was an indication that "fiber from fruit might protect against colon cancer," says Dr. Charles Fuchs, a gastrointestinal oncologist who led the study, "but the data weren't statistically significant...
...Jewish child, I was encouraged to consider a lot of professions: oncologist, anesthesiologist, radiologist, cardiologist, even proctologist--though that wasn't highly recommended. But Antichrist, from what I recall, wasn't mentioned at all. So when Jerry Falwell declared at a conference of Evangelicals that the Antichrist was a living Jewish male, I was disgusted. I mean, Falwell had to be the laziest preacher alive. He's all talk, no action. What was he so busy with that was more important than finding the Antichrist? Fixing the Y2K bug? Eating doughy fried foods? Let's find him, Jer, and make...
...reduced their chances of dying from the malignancy at least 90%. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, has received so much attention that it could spark an increase in the number of preventive mastectomies. Currently, according to Dr. Kenneth Kern, a surgical oncologist at the University of Connecticut Health Center and Hartford Hospital, perhaps a few hundred such operations are performed nationwide each year...