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...After analyzing an exhaustive dataset of over 50,000 cases of melanoma in the US that were diagnosed between 1992 and 2003, the scientists, led by Dr. Nancy Thomas, a dermatologist, discovered to their surprise that patients with lesions in the scalp and neck died almost twice as fast after diagnosis as those whose tumors started anywhere else on the body. "The results really did surprise us," says Thomas. "For a long time, there has been a lot of controversy over whether all head and neck melanomas had worse survival, and this study shows a large difference in survival...
...Thomas' study was not designed to tease out why these scalp and neck lesions are particularly dangerous, but she notes that those areas are crisscrossed with extensive lymph and blood vessels - such networks can make it easier for cancer cells to both grow and spread. Dr. Vijay Trisal, a cancer specialist at City of Hope National Medical Center in Los Angeles, also notes that these areas receive the most sun exposure. "The maximum sun exposure areas are to the scalp, face and neck," he says, "so it makes sense biologically that cancers here would be different from those in areas...
Like Audrey Hepburn on the back of Gregory Peck's Vespa in Roman Holiday, Harry has enjoyed a whistle-stop tour of how commoners live - and die. He shared his flight back to England with two critically wounded soldiers. He admits he may be "a bullet magnet," a prize scalp for enemy forces and terrorists. Yet Harry has tasted something akin to ordinary life and he's eager for more. "It's bizarre," he mused in an interview recorded during his tour of duty. "I'm out here now, haven't really had a shower for four days, haven...
That scandal claimed the scalp of BBC1 boss Peter Fincham, who resigned on Oct. 5. Two weeks later, BBC director-general Mark Thompson announced plans to kill off some 2,500 jobs, mostly in news and nonfiction programming, and to sell the BBC's iconic West London headquarters, Television Centre. Management is now trawling its staff for volunteers for layoffs. Says Roy Greenslade, a former editor of the Daily Mirror newspaper and currently a journalism professor at London's City University: "The BBC's problems are manifold. There are more dramas at the BBC than ever get shown...
...Stassen knew that wearing a bronzed possum was safer than hitting the stump with a naked scalp. Why? For the same reason, perhaps, that bald men are icons of evil in the movies, from Lex Luthor to Dr. Evil to Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life. Sometime in our political history, baldness was downgraded from Churchillian to ... Dr. Phil...