Ever since the 1970's, when lumptectomy was shown to be as effective as mastectomy for treating early-stage breast cancer, surgeons have been stumped by one of the most vexing problems in oncology: how wide should the margins be around the tumor to insure adequate removal of the cancer so that the risk of local recurrence or, worse, distant metastatic spread can be driven down as low as possible?
Early on, the conventional...
I go to bed early and wake up early, but I don't get up right away. I listen to the radio, the news and shows on NPR (WNYC.)
This morning I learned that the women behind MADD, mothers against...
I knew it was important to get good grades in medical school; that is, I knew it was important to know the material. And I knew I had to master diagnostic skills, too, like learning to distinguish different heart murmurs or identify degrees of burn to the skin. But what I was most interested in learning was not the knowledge of medicine, per se, but how to use that knowledge in...
I have a dream. Well, I have many dreams, but this one is about an easy, almost painless means of ensuring that no woman ever has to face, fight or survive breast cancer again. A vaccine. Am I just dreaming? Maybe. Maybe not.
Mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) is a proven cause of breast cancer in field and experimental mice. MMTV was discovered way back...
