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Reagan's doctors acknowledged that some cancer cells may have spread from the President's colon and could seed new tumors. Unfortunately, there is little that can be done to prevent them from seeding. Radiotherapy, or X-ray treatment, which sometimes works well to prevent recurrences of breast or lung cancers, has not generally proved effective against recurring cancers of the colon. And chemotherapy, or drug treatment, which works well against leukemia and cancers of the lymphatic system, will not help. "Currently available information is that chemotherapy does not improve survival" for colorectal cancer patients, Rosenberg said...
...city to the Vietnam-- Soviet Union Friendship Hospital, where I am to have my foot examined. I can see camouflaged vehicles coming and going, their lights off. At the hospital, two male Vietnamese doctors who have been briefed about my arrival lay me on a table to take an X-ray of my foot--or at least they try to. No sooner have I lain down than the air raid sirens blare and I have to be helped into the hospital's bomb shelter, now filling rapidly with doctors and those patients who can be moved...
...Joshua Copel, president-elect of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, can come up with only one other example of medical imaging equipment being used in a nonmedical setting--and that fad became extinct decades ago: "They no longer have those X-ray machines in shoe stores so you can look at the bones in your feet as much as you want...
...scientists and their team crystallized a key protein, known as gp120, found on the membrane of HIV—the virus that causes AIDS. By taking an X-ray image of the crystallized structure, they were able to reveal its shape...
Similar doubts dog Kodak's most promising digital adventure--medical imaging, a process that extends from the nonfilm capture of X-ray images to their dispersal through a hospital network and their digital manipulation to produce detailed images. Kodak sells digital radiology machines and software that manages the diagnostic and other information that accompanies each image. It even posts the bill. Not ready to go fully digital? No problem: Kodak will sell you bridging devices--like laser printers to transfer the picture to film. The company also provides consulting services, putting KOS into operation to make patient care more efficient...