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Another Whitehead scientist, oncologist Dr. Todd Golub, is trying to improve on the primitive techniques doctors use to guide their fight against cancer. Currently, pathologists use the location of a tumor in the patient's body and its appearance under a microscope to determine what sort of malignancy is involved. It works often--but not always. Melanoma, for example, starts out as a skin cancer but may end up in the lung or breast, where it can be much more damaging than primary lung or breast cancer...
...April 1 issue of the journal Cancer Research, Dr. Timothy M. Browder, an oncologist and Harvard instructor in pediatrics at the Children's Hospital, and a group of his colleagues presented data from a five-year study which sought to examine the effect of targeting a tumor's blood supply rather than the tumor directly...
...really slow-growing cancer," said Dr. Roy M. Ambinder, a clinical oncologist...
Cancer specialists, for their part, haven't neglected the issue. "Despite what this ABC show may have reported, there's no clear scientific evidence to date that cell phones are linked to brain cancer," says Dr. Lisa DeAngelis, a neuro-oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City--a view, she adds, that will be reaffirmed in an upcoming study by her colleagues...
...studies, an act of good corporate citizenship that seemed to signal a willingness to keep paying for transplant treatments in breast-cancer cases. A doctor working with Kaiser-Permanente, the nation's largest HMO, offers more direct reassurance. "It will be up to the doctor and the patient," predicts oncologist Louis Fehrenbacher...