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...balloons to radioactive coils placed in the breast while a woman is still in surgery, may forever change the way women are treated for breast cancer. A small group of physicians think that for some patients it may be possible to confine radiation to a small area surrounding the tumor, eliminating the practice of blasting the entire breast. The new "mini" treatments may enable women to receive a full course of radiation - which currently takes six weeks or more - in just a few days or even one sitting. And they may enable more women to avoid a mastectomy...
...with a vaccine. After all, infection plays no role in cancer, except in a few rare types of malignancy. And a cancer cell, unlike an invading pathogen, isn't wholly foreign to the body. Nevertheless, researchers are learning that the immune system can even be trained to go after tumors. CanVaxin, for example, a vaccine for the deadly skin cancer melanoma, is made from cancer-cell lines taken from three different patients; among them, they express more than 20 disabled tumor antigens that the immune system can learn to recognize...
...sulfides can reduce cholesterol and may make the blood less sticky. Scientists are fairly confident that garlic also has antibacterial and antifungal powers. Preliminary reports even suggest that garlic may block the parasites that cause malaria. On perhaps less firm footing is the theory that allyl sulfides can stop tumor growth, a notion so far borne out only in the petri dish...
...friend's home in Los Angeles last week at age 58, losing his last battle with cancer. In 1997 he had a cancerous lump removed from his neck; earlier this year he was operated on for a cancer found on his lung and subsequently received treatment for a tumor on his brain, including a controversial form of radiation therapy at the Staten Island University Hospital in New York City. "George is very different from many people in that he didn't have fear of death," said Gil Lederman, one of his doctors there. "He felt that life and death were...
...friend's home in Los Angeles last week at age 58, losing his last battle with cancer. In 1997 he had a cancerous lump removed from his neck; earlier this year he was operated on for a cancer found on his lung and subsequently received treatment for a tumor on his brain, including a controversial form of radiation therapy at the Staten Island University Hospital in New York City. "George is very different from many people in that he didn't have fear of death," said Gil Lederman, one of his doctors there. "He felt that life and death were...