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...viewfinder. His fingers, looped into what look like castanets, dart about just above his lap. But the action is taking place inside the patient, where metal robot "hands" inserted through the ports follow every move of Gardiner's: sewing, clamping, cutting. "It's like being able to shrink my hands and put them places they'd never fit," the surgeon says...
...This approach worked beautifully in mice. Now more than 50 angiogenesis inhibitors are being studied in humans with a wide range of cancers; a dozen are in the final stages of testing. Thus far, only a tiny number of human patients treated with these compounds have seen their tumors shrink or disappear. Clinicians are nonetheless encouraged; while angiogenesis inhibitors don't make cancer go away, they do appear to slow tumor growth. And that means they may work best in conjunction with some of the other new treatments to batter cancer from several directions at once...
...This approach worked beautifully in mice. Now more than 50 angiogenesis inhibitors are being studied in humans with a wide range of cancers; a dozen are in the final stages of testing. Thus far, only a tiny number of human patients treated with these compounds have seen their tumors shrink or disappear. Clinicians are nonetheless encouraged; while angiogenesis inhibitors don't make cancer go away, they do appear to slow tumor growth. And that means they may work best in conjunction with some of the other new treatments to batter cancer from several directions at once...
Unfortunately, current drug trials, even for new cancer treatments, are based on the old chemotherapy model. Success is measured by how much tumors shrink--or disappear--within a few days or weeks. Because angiogenesis inhibitors work on the blood vessels that feed tumors rather than on the tumors themselves, they usually take longer, sometimes as much as a few months, to show any effect...
...nuanced approach angered some Republicans in the administration and some outside advisers. Emphasizing Bush's greener conservation measures, they say, means playing on the turf of environmentalists. If the message is that America must face up to its energy shortage, then the White House shouldn't shrink from that. Democrats are going to paint the administration as extremists on the environment anyway, this arguments goes, so why not try to use the weight of their attack against them? Bring out quotes from Al Gore's Earth in the Balance, talk about Jimmy Carter and paint the Democrats as environmental absolutists...