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...will kill 554,740 people in the U.S. this year. Rather, the optimism stems from an extraordinarily rich epoch of scientific discovery that has revealed the innermost secrets of malignant cells and suggested rational strategies for attacking them. "Until we knew what was wrong with the cancer cell," says oncologist Dr. Bert Vogelstein of Johns Hopkins University, "we couldn't even think about ways of targeting treatment...
...incremental improvements shows promise of pushing the death rate down. Already doctors have learned how to keep the disease at bay for months, and sometimes even to produce complete remissions that may last for years. "We're running a marathon, not a sprint," observes Dr. Eugenie Kleinerman, a pediatric oncologist at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. "What's important is not how fast we run the first two miles but when we cross the finish line...
...NUYS, Calif.: A California physician has developed a new diagnostic method for treating some breast cancer tumors. Dr. Melvin Silverstein, a surgical oncologist, announced a system Wednesday that could prevent excessive treatments that many women now undergo. The process assigns points to three characteristics of the common DCIS (for ductal carcinoma in situ) tumors. The tumor's final "score" determines whether it can be safely ignored, removed, or treated with radiation or a mastectomy. Now, tumors are often treated too aggressively with radiation or breast removal that may be unnecessary. "Right now we do not know which tumors are going...
Christy deMeurers at last won approval to see a new oncologist, Stanley Schinke, and met him for the first time on June 21, 1993. She liked him instantly. "He and Dr. Jones were the only physicians up to this point who made us feel welcome," Alan deMeurers says...
...deMeurerses, meanwhile, had grown so distrustful that they decided not to tell UCLA that Christy was a Health Net subscriber. Says Alan: "We wanted to find out what your average citizen would learn without insurance." Christy got an appointment to see Dr. John Glaspy, an oncologist who prides himself on being a fierce patient advocate. "They were suspicious, and they were in pain. Psychic pain," says Dr. Glaspy. Still, he says, "the first step in our relationship was a lie. There really isn't any other...