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Dawn Euton had cancer a long time ago -- 27 years ago, to be exact. As a four-year-old she was treated for Wilms' tumor, a malignancy of the kidney. Though the disease never returned, the fear and stigma have not gone away. In high school her classmates acted as if they were scared to be near her. She was rejected every time she applied for medical insurance -- even to cover the cost of bearing a child. And vivid memories of the childhood terror still flood back whenever she goes for a checkup and sees the same woman...
...Daniel Hays at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles is tracking the life histories of 1,000 childhood-cancer survivors with an eye to their intellectual development. Among subjects who are now older than 30, the only group that falls significantly below the norm is former brain-tumor patients, some of whom have lasting social, economic or psychological problems. But not all. About 10% report salaries of more than $50,000 a year. The younger patients may not fare as well. During one period in the past, victims of childhood leukemia were given prophylactic radiation treatments directed...
...Atwater died last year at the age of 40 from a brain tumor. Ailes has retired from politics. Baker is busy running the State Department. Of the Big Four behind Bush's 1988 campaign, Teeter is the only one who is involved in Bush's re-election effort...
Also, the cancer cure itself is simply too good to be true. One shot of Campbell's serum, and you can kiss your tumor problems goodbye. The film tries to add scientific authenticity by including footage of Connery and Bracco gazing into a laptop terminal. But any Tetris addict knows that a computer screen isn't necessarily a sign of serious work getting done...
...correlative study of tumor-suppression gene p53 demonstrated that tumor samples contained the same mutation...