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...radiotherapy still puts healthy tissue at risk. Now a study reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute suggests that targeted radio-therapy can work just as well as whole-breast therapy in preventing cancer recurrences. The approach, called partial breast irradiation, treats only areas nearest to the tumor, minimizing exposure of healthy tissues to X rays. It can also mean a shorter treatment and recovery period. --By Lisa McLaughlin
DIED. BOBBY BONDS, 57, three-time All-Star, three-time Gold Glove--winning outfielder and father of San Francisco Giants slugger Barry; of lung cancer and a brain tumor; in San Francisco. The elder Bonds, whose pro career lasted from 1968 to 1981, had a rare combination of speed and power, attributes for which his son is also celebrated...
Meanwhile, lab studies on rats have alternately suggested that isoflavones inhibit and stimulate breast-cancer tumor growth. Recent studies showing that estrogen in hormone replacement therapy actually increases the risk of breast cancer and heart disease in postmenopausal women have scared some women...
...same summer day that 6-year-old Catie Hoch beat her own personal best jumping rope--100 in a row--the doctors discovered that the pain in her side was coming from a tumor on her kidney. "In that split second," her mother Gina Peca remembers, "your whole life changes. You're going along safety-proofing your house and trying to feed your kids the right food, thinking you have control over their safety...
...tests, Avastin increased the rate of tumor shrinkage and delayed relapses for longer, without the side effects of other cancer treatments, said William W. Li ’84, president and medical director of the Angiogenesis Foundation, a non-profit organization...