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Harry Potter has a lot on his to-do list. There's all those Horcruxes to find, a bunch of Deathly Hallows to pick up (you'll find out), and he's supposed to become a man, and get the girl, and, yeah, he should probably slay Voldemort at some point too. But in a lot of ways Harry's story ended with the second-to-last book of the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince...
...that can emerge years after cancer treatments. In previous decades, for instance, girls with Hodgkin's lymphoma were frequently treated with radiation to the chest, putting them at increased risk of developing breast cancer as young women. Screening them at age 25 instead of 40, as usually recommended, can pick up the disease sooner and, it is hoped, give doctors the chance to remove small lesions before they grow or spread. (Radiation is now rarely used for children.) Similarly, to stave off heart disease in graduates of chemotherapy, doctors can be more aggressive in prescribing cholesterol-lowering drugs or blood...
Dodge & Cox has also found there to be an important structural element to team decision making. "Committees react best to a specific proposition," says Bryan Cameron, director of research and a member of the committees that pick domestic and foreign stocks. So when analysts make a presentation, they propose a particular course of action--increasing the percentage of Wal-Mart from 2% of the portfolio to 2.2%, say. The analyst advocates, and the committee meditates--somewhat like a jury...
...sector committee, made up of people who know an industry well and can drill down to test the idea in depth. "The nature of this business is that you're going to be wrong a lot of the time," says Diana Strandberg, who sits on the committees that pick domestic and international stocks. "We're all in it together...
That's especially exciting because painting tumors could also help doctors control cancers before they spread from an organ to the lymph nodes and other tissues. Olson's molecular paint can pick up tumors as small as 200 cells, potentially helping doctors identify, for instance, the micrometastases that can make breast cancer so dangerous. Current techniques like magnetic resonance imaging start detecting tumors at 1 million cells. "It's simply a way to extend what we can see," says Olson, making all our tools against cancer more powerful...