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MARGARET SPELLINGS, U.S. Education Secretary, giving encouragement to deputy White House press secretary Dana Perino, who will take over for press secretary Tony Snow, who is battling cancer...
...Harvard women’s lacrosse (2-6, 0-1 Ivy) team spent 40 brutal minutes battling both BU (4-4, 1-0 AE) and 20 mph winds yesterday at Nickerson Field before the game was called due to snow...
Undeterred by the sleet and snow, Flood doubled up with a second goal at 20:52, assisted by junior attacker Caroline Simmons...
Sometimes it takes a stricken celebrity or two to bring home a new truth about a disease. In the course of a few days, both Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Presidential candidate John Edwards, and White House spokesman Tony Snow revealed that they are not just battling recurrences of cancer but also contending with malignancies that have spread and are no longer curable. Many Americans were stunned to hear that the Edwardses will continue their quest for the White House, with Elizabeth campaigning despite metastatic breast cancer. Snow, who was treated for colon cancer two years ago and now has tumor...
...None of these advances mean that living with cancer is 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...