Word: patients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard got out to a fast start behind a patient and well-balanced offensive attack. Sophomore Adam McGown won the opening face-off, which set up a quick tally by Buttles...
Doctors have learned a lot over the past decade about how to treat colon cancer. But given that it strikes 130,000 Americans each year, there's surprisingly little research about the best way to monitor a patient's condition after his or her tumor has been removed. The goal, of course, is to catch any metastasis, or spreading of the original cancer, while it is still small and treatable. To do that, physicians rely on everything from blood tests to computerized X rays, or C.T. scans, to detect new tumors in the liver and lungs, among other places. Unfortunately...
...instance, given the case of a patient with lung cancer complaining of a cough, students must learn how cancer develops and spreads in cells in order to understand the biology behind the disease...
...purpose is not to diagnose or learn to treat the patient, but to understand the science... that underlies the problem," Federman says...
...patient's illness rather than just the disease becomes important," Good says...