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...padded away, and I sat for a few minutes in my gown, feeling mortal, the way you do if you're 57 and scantily clad, sitting in bright light. I could imagine that a pea-size tumor in my innards had sprouted and sent evil tendrils shooting through the lymph nodes, and now dense jungle growths had a grip on my vitals and in a few months people would sit in an Episcopal church and softly weep for me and then have a nice lunch. I was almost to the scattering of the ashes when the doctor walked...
Because chemotherapy and radiation don't have much effect on advanced melanoma, researchers are experimenting with various drugs and vaccine-like therapies to try to rev up the body's defenses against the tumors. There has been enough success with interferon, says Dr. Ronald Blum, director of the Beth Israel Cancer Center in New York City, to make the immune-boosting drug be considered a standard of care. And, he adds, "for those who can withstand the short but very toxic inpatient treatment program, interleukin-2 can lead to significant reductions in tumor size." In most advanced cases, however...
Girls younger than seven or those whose puberty seems to be accelerating--producing, for example, adult-size breasts--may require medical treatment. Sometimes the problem is a tumor. Other times there appears to be no physical cause. Current treatment consists of monthly injections of a powerful gonadotropin-blocking drug called Lupron. Cost: $6,000 to $10,000 a year. Opting for treatment is not a decision to be taken lightly, so if your doctor recommends such a course, get a second opinion...
...CONTEMPLATE as you gaze at a tumor removed from the jaw of President Grover Cleveland, and the thorax of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, at the Mutter Museum...
AILING. DARRYL STRAWBERRY, 38, suspended New York Yankees slugger, after a CAT scan revealed that his colon cancer, diagnosed and treated in 1998, might have spread to lymph nodes near the original tumor; in Tampa, Fla. He will undergo more tests this week. Strawberry is also battling accusations that he violated terms of his probation after an April 1999 arrest on drug charges...