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Doctors have learned a lot over the past decade about how to treat colon cancer. But given that it strikes 130,000 Americans each year, there's surprisingly little research about the best way to monitor a patient's condition after his or her tumor has been removed. The goal, of course, is to catch any metastasis, or spreading of the original cancer, while it is still small and treatable. To do that, physicians rely on everything from blood tests to computerized X rays, or C.T. scans, to detect new tumors in the liver and lungs, among other places. Unfortunately...
...Okrent '99, Benjamin R. Hanson '97-'98, Jason D. Altom and Ansgar Hansen '97. Suicides are ordinary events that happen to ordinary people. To brand suicides, suicidal tendencies or feelings of depression as inherently abnormal and to ostracize their occurrence from the mainstream the way one removes a malignant tumor reinforces the mentality that causes them in the first place...
...However, he said that a recent routine medical test revealed the cancer had returned as a colon tumor...
...Nozick said he is scheduled for surgery this Friday at Mass. General Hospital where he hopes doctors will be able to remove the tumor...
...achieve tumor reduction, Folkman's treatment inhibits angiogenesis, the growth of blood vessels within the tumor. Two of the main drugs used are named endostatin and angiostatin...