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Breast-cancer specialist Dr. Susan Love shares her skepticism: "Many gynecologists are handing out these hormones like M&M's," she says. No matter how beneficial estrogen may seem, no drug treatment comes without drawbacks. In biology as in business, notes the Los Angeles oncologist, "there's no free lunch...
...Develop your local he advised students considering academic medicine. "If you are an oncologist you most try to be a very good oncologist, but at the same time, do not allow your thoughts to bury themselves in your disciplines. You must understand the organization that...
...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...