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...Many of these therapies are just beginning to reach clinical trials and won't be available to save lives for years to come. If you have cancer today, these treatments are likely to come too late to help you. But, says Dr. Larry Norton, a medical director at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City: "I think there is no question that the war on cancer is winnable...
...believe, by throwing a series of monkey wrenches into the cancer cell's machinery, the new therapies could transform cancer from an intractable, frequently lethal illness to a chronic but manageable one akin to diabetes and high blood pressure. Says Dr. Leonard Saltz, a colon-cancer specialist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering: "I don't think we're going to hit home runs, but if we can get a series of line-drive singles going and put enough singles back to back, we can score runs...
...Then just this year researchers at Sloan-Kettering showed that the drug could dramatically boost the effectiveness of standard colorectal-cancer chemotherapy, shrinking tumors in more than a fifth of otherwise hopeless cases. Says Sloan-Kettering's Saltz: "The fact that we got a 20% response rate is staggering." What is happening, he surmises, is that the growth-factor inhibitor weakens the tumor enough for chemotherapy to finish...
...writer is a professor of medicine and cell biology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center...
...Even though I've never seen any of his movies, I still like the way he talks about politics. He's funny," Sloan Eddleston '04 said...