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...recap. Last year, everything was just fine. I was happy as I used my Nokia to order gourmet potato chips that I could afford because of my burgeoning portfolio. Now I'm staring down financial ruin, impending brain damage and an eerily complementary brain tumor. What a wonderful new century - I'm certainly glad I won't be around for the next...
Another Whitehead scientist, oncologist Dr. Todd Golub, is trying to improve on the primitive techniques doctors use to guide their fight against cancer. Currently, pathologists use the location of a tumor in the patient's body and its appearance under a microscope to determine what sort of malignancy is involved. It works often--but not always. Melanoma, for example, starts out as a skin cancer but may end up in the lung or breast, where it can be much more damaging than primary lung or breast cancer...
...esophageal cancer--an especially lethal type--so they wanted to find the best therapy in a hurry. Would radiation be appropriate? What about chemotherapy? And if so, which type? Or perhaps it made sense to go right to one of the new experimental antiangiogenesis medications that cut off a tumor's blood supply...
DIED. JUDD ROSE, 45, co-anchor for CNN NewsStand since 1998, known for his keen wit, lucid prose and sharp reporting; of a brain tumor; in New York City. He discussed living with cancer during one of the broadcasts that marked his 16-year career...
This research is so preliminary that no one knows yet which strategies will pan out or even if it's a good idea to look for microcancers. After all, it's quite possible that the body successfully destroys small clumps of tumor cells all the time. Being able to identify them could therefore subject women to needless worry and possibly unnecessary treatment. In addition, it's not always easy to draw the line between normal tissue that happens to be growing a little funny and cells that are destined to become lethal...