Word: tumor
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...Expos, sickly for years, are now Team Tumor. After a decade of cheapskate owners and lousy attendance--last year they averaged a pitiful 7,935 fans per game, 24,000 below the league average--Major League Baseball tried to eliminate the Expos this past winter. But the players' union got a reprieve by filing a still unresolved grievance claiming that killing the team would violate the league's collective-bargaining agreement. That agreement has expired, and after the 2002 season, so will the Expos. In the meantime, they must play 162 games knowing that no matter what they...
...average tumor size in the rats’ brains was comparable to one the size...
...Doctors are experimenting with new ways to deliver lethal radiation that more closely targets the tumor and takes just a few days at most?compared with the more usual six-week regimen?to finish...
...that the kind of cancer she had?a group of malignancies so tiny that they were rarely seen before the advent of mammograms powerful enough to spot them?is at the heart of a raging debate in the cancer community. Doctors know what to do when they find tumors the size of marbles or plums. That's what surgery, radiation and chemotherapy are for. But what do you do with cancers the size of pencil points? Do you treat them as you would a massive tumor? Do you leave them alone? Should you even be looking for them...
Nancy Ulene, 43, wasn't particularly worried when a routine mammogram turned up something her radiologist thought was fishy. She had had a tumor seven years earlier that turned out to be benign. But this time was different. A biopsy confirmed that Ulene, the niece of former Today show medical expert Art Ulene, had ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS, a growth that is variously described as either an early-stage breast cancer or a precancerous lesion. "It was very confusing," says Ulene, a color stylist for Walt Disney TV Animation. "I needed to know more...