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...disease, largely because it's the focus of so much research and drug development. "We have a ton of drugs that work for breast cancer - eight or nine - more than for any other cancer," says Dr. Christy Russell, co-director of the Norris Breast Center at the University of Southern California. The approach for someone with metastatic disease like Elizabeth Edwards, says Russell, is to use a drug until it stops working - as it almost inevitably will - and then switch to something else, possibly buying years of relatively good health...
...This is not a virgin cancer," explains Dr. Christy Russell, co-director of the Norris breast center at the University of Southern California. "These are cancer cells that survived the fight with chemotherapy." Doctors commonly say that the average survival for breast cancer that recurs and spreads after treatment is two to three years, but "there's a huge lack of statistics in this circumstance," says Russell, who chairs the breast cancer advisory committee for the American Cancer Society. For a patient like Edwards, who is 57, the response to renewed treatment will depend on the specific and unknown genetic...
Faust focuses on the connections between Southern thinkers that made them intellectually productive. Ideas spread easily in cities, but the great distances that separate farmers challenge the transmission of new thoughts. Faust’s intellectuals were not the ante-bellum Bostonians whose easy interactions in dense urban environment produced abolitionism and transcendentalism...
...Southern thinkers had to fight to connect with each other, and they had to fight against a culture that didn’t always treat scholarship with respect. Yet Faust shows how the Southern circle built a network of ideas; an American Quarterly article from 1979 has a particularly elegant circular map of the connections between Southern intellectuals, connections that we at Harvard try to make. Connections that started in one area produced shared insights in totally different fields. The business of Harvard is to produce knowledge through the connection of scholars and students; Faust has spent her life thinking...
...analysis of Southern thinkers emphasizes that many intellectuals became arch-defenders of the Confederate system to gain the status that did not naturally flow to Southern men of letters. Hammond’s intellectual efforts gave the governorship of South Carolina and a Senate seat. Scholars are motivated by many things, many of which are admirable and some of which are not. Harvard is well served by the fact that Faust has spent more than 30 years on the motives of thinkers...