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...identification of the gene which causes hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer, an inherited form of colon cancer, should enable doctors to screen patients before any tumor growth in order to determine whether they are predisposed to contract the disease...
Once identified, those who do carry the gene will be carefully monitored so that any tumor which begins to grow may be detected early...
...Bateson at U.H.S. Dr. Bateson helped me out last year when I was in a jam, and he told me to look him up if any of my friends ever had problems. He specializes in severe mental disorders. For years Nick has been wondering if he has a brain tumor, so it should be easy to get him in. A couple of weeks in Stillman should calm Nick down enough to get him off my back. I love Nick, but I need my sleep...
...finding which may eventually lead to ways to stimulate wound healing or fight tumor growth, a group of Harvard researchers has discovered the glue that sticks blood cells together to form young blood vessels...
Bischoff said that understanding young blood vessel formation, or angiogenesis, could lead to improved clinical techniques to aid in wound healing or limit tumor growth, since tumors grow by inducing capillary formation in the surrounding tissue...