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...that was long enough to give rise to a rumor more virulent than the Asian flu that she was racing around Manhattan to fertility specialists trying to get pregnant. The sad truth is that she was consulting cancer doctors who saw her through breast surgery for a malignant tumor...
...grim statistics have led most women and their doctors to opt for additional treatment beyond surgery: radiation, chemotherapy with toxic drugs, and hormonal therapy with tamoxifen pills, which block the estrogens that can stimulate tumor growth. Though millions of research dollars and hours have been poured into determining which treatments work best for which patients, the results have often been contradictory and confusing...
...drug's benefits were clear in both young and old patients. Most surprising, tamoxifen seemed to help even those women whose tumors were not of the type whose growth depends on estrogen. "The drug probably has other mechanisms of action," says Dr. Andrew Dorr of the National Cancer Institute. "It may be a tumor suppressor in and of itself...
...dying father, Roth gives us that rarest of reads: a narrative of piercing clarity and emotional impact about one of life's crucial events. The son finds himself a parent to his own father, a stubborn 86-year-old who puts up a gallant fight against the brain tumor that daily robs him of his strength and dignity. In Herman Roth, the novelist discovers the source of his own tenacious character. There are no literary feints or false notes here, only the steady, frank voice of a writer who has mastered his craft and come to know and enjoy...
...dying father, Roth gives us that rarest of reads: a narrative of piercing clarity and emotional impact about one of life's crucial events. The son finds himself a parent to his own father, a stubborn 86-year-old who puts up a gallant fight against the brain tumor that daily robs him of his strength and dignity. In Herman Roth, the novelist discovers the source of his own tenacious character. There are no literary feints or false notes here, only the steady, frank voice of a writer who has mastered his craft and come to know and enjoy...