Word: sloan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book, McLennan, one of the inspirations for Rev. Scott Sloan of the Doonesbury comic strip by Garry Trudeau, aims to help people discover religion by leading them through six stages of spiritual development...
Cancer specialists, for their part, haven't neglected the issue. "Despite what this ABC show may have reported, there's no clear scientific evidence to date that cell phones are linked to brain cancer," says Dr. Lisa DeAngelis, a neuro-oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City--a view, she adds, that will be reaffirmed in an upcoming study by her colleagues...
Researchers at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., looked at data from more than 10,000 white and black Medicare patients whose tumors were found early enough to make them candidates for surgery. About 77% of the white patients underwent the procedure, compared with 64% of blacks. The difference was sufficiently large to reduce the overall survival rate for black patients to 26% after five years, compared with 34% for whites. It's a gap that concerns the doctors. "People are dying needlessly," says Dr. Peter Bach...
Several strains of one of the world?s most prolific killers may have met their match in the genes of a small, furry army. On Wednesday, researchers at New York?s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center announced that they had developed a new strain of mice, which look like your standard variety but carry an important piece of the cancer-prevention puzzle: They are genetically altered to delete the genes vital to the development of blood vessels that provide nourishment to tumors. Without the blood supply, the tumor eventually starves to death. This research comes on the heels of similar...
Middle East: Sloan...