Word: tumorous
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...older men). The earnest side of my brain--the part that thinks Al Gore will make a darn fine President--even feels that these films should be applauded for trying to treat death as something sacred without asking us to watch some Oscar-trolling star die of a brain tumor. But if you're going to treat death as something more than an excuse for a kinesthetic jolt, if you're going to go ahead and push these kinds of audience buttons and make people cry (me anyway), it would be nice if you had something to say beyond...
...experiments, Folkman used a technique that cuts off a tumor's blood supply by inhibiting the growth of blood vessels that serve...
...decade ago, when Folkman found a drugthat successfully stifled angiogenesis andresulted in marked reduction in tumor size, thescientific world began to pay attention...
...gene mutation was diagnosed in a Duke laboratory run by Andrew Futreal, a researcher who had a hand in the discovery of one breast cancer-susceptibility gene--known as BRCA1--and who co-discovered a second, BRCA2. Her doctor is Dirk Iglehart, a surgeon who also runs a large tumor biology laboratory. The genetic counselor, Shelly Clark, advises patients on the far-reaching effects of such lethal genes...
...patients is a bit like Bill Gates debugging code on a Windows program. Still, it's something he does one month every year, usually in June, like most other doctors at Duke. Right now he's checking on the progress of James McAllister, 73, who has a spinal tumor. McAllister is doing well enough to leave a high-cost intensive-care ward soon for rehabilitation. "That's better for him," says Snyderman. "And cheaper...