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...include an explosion of new drugs that are more targeted and less toxic than old-school chemotherapeutic agents. In addition, new tests are beginning to help doctors match drugs more precisely to the genetic and molecular makeup of an individual tumor. Finally, there are remarkable advances in managing the side effects of treatment, which, in the past, could be as debilitating as cancer itself...
...easy, or even possible. A certain percentage of patients, as Snow and Edwards surely know, do not respond to any current treatments. And some types of cancer - particularly pancreatic, ovarian and stomach - continue to have high mortality rates, one reason cancer still kills 560,000 Americans every year. Side effects remain an issue as well, though antinausea medications are now so good that some doctors say it's rare for their patients to vomit. And drugs that prevent anemia and a drop in white blood cells mean patients can carry on with life's activities without the constant dread...
Here in Belfast, flags, painted sidewalks and political murals still mark territory claimed by each side in the decades-long dispute between predominantly Protestant unionists, who support the region's union with Great Britain, and mostly Catholic nationalists, who favor unification with the independent Republic of Ireland to the south...
...dangerous for routine foot patrols. His first visit is to Jim Potts, a unionist community official. A tall green "peace fence" winds between the streets, separating unionist Glenbryn from nationalist Ardoyne. Potts tells Simpson about a small riot over the weekend involving 40 or 50 people from each side of the fence. In times past, such altercations might have had deadly consequences. Potts himself was charged with making an affray at high-profile 2001 protests against Catholics using a Protestant road to get to a Catholic girls' primary school. When a fight breaks out these days, Potts and his nationalist...
...first time, researchers have identified twins that are identical on their mother's side, but share only half of their father's DNA. The twins, now toddlers, have been described as "semi-identical" - caught somewhere between identical twins (the result of the cleaving of an egg fertilized by one sperm) and fraternal twins (the result of two eggs meeting two sperm). Lead investigator Dr. Vivienne Souter says that while the term semi-identical provides some idea of how the twinning occurred, it is "an oversimplification...