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DIED. DAWN STEEL, 51, brash, market-savvy studio chief; of a brain tumor; in Los Angeles. In her merchandising days at Penthouse, Steel learned to recognize a hot product, whether it was a phallic amaryllis plant, Gucci-labeled toilet paper (her own invention) or, later at Paramount, a movie like Flashdance or Top Gun. She was fired while giving birth to her daughter, but rebounded in true celluloid style, becoming the first woman to head a major studio: Columbia Pictures...
...Andy, you have a tumor." He felt a warm unease. Grove is a steely man, but these weren't words he had expected to hear at 58. Grove discovered in late 1994 that he had a tumor growing on the side of his prostate gland. It wasn't immediately life threatening, but the doctors couldn't seem to agree on a course of action...
...Wang Dan, 28, a leader of the 1989 uprising that was brutally suppressed in Tiananmen Square; he is serving an 11-year term. Like Wei, Wang is reportedly ill, enduring stomach pains stemming from a nerve disorder. Family members say they've been told he may have a brain tumor, but that his jailers won't allow a CAT scan. Chinese officials say he's faking the illnesses...
Just as troubling, a woman who has taken raloxifene and then develops breast cancer may reduce her options for fighting the malignancy. Because raloxifene is a distant cousin of the cancer-fighting drug tamoxifen, some scientists are worried that any tumor cells that survive are likely to be resistant to tamoxifen as well...
Grapes are "packed with flavonoids which are phytochemicals and, in particular, resveratrol, which has been shown in laboratory tests on animals to inhibit tumor growth at three different stages," said Peracchi-Douglas...