FW: NCI Cancer Bulletin for July 19, 2005

[Guest guest]

This may be of interest to several of you.

Kathy

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From: " Dr. von Eschenbach \(NIH/NCI\) "

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Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:31:28 -0400

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Subject: NCI Cancer Bulletin for July 19, 2005

NCI Cancer Bulletin

Dear Colleague,

I am pleased to present this week's issue of the NCI Cancer Bulletin

<http://www.cancer.gov/NCICancerBulletin/NCI_Cancer_Bulletin_071905> .

Earlier this year, when I testified before the Senate Appropriations

Subcommittee on Labor, Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) asked me an

important question: What would it take to accelerate by 5 years the

achievement of the 2015 goal of eliminating the suffering and death due

to cancer? This issue of the Bulletin contains our response to Senator

Specter so that the cancer community can understand what we hope to

achieve and how we hope to achieve it.

Other articles and features of interest include:

* A research highlight on the limitations of using PSA levels to

determine a man's risk of prostate cancer

* A spotlight on radiofrequency ablation, a minimally invasive, targeted

cancer treatment which eradicates some small tumors

* A featured clinical trial on the dual use of the angiogenesis

inhibitors bevacizumab and sorafenib for treating advanced-stage solid

tumors

As always, I hope you will find this issue of the NCI Cancer Bulletin

interesting and informative.

Sincerely,

C. von Eschenbach, M.D.

Director, National Cancer Institute

NCI Cancer Bulletin

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[Guest guest]

----- Original Message -----

> achievement of the 2015 goal of eliminating the suffering and death due

> to cancer?

this kind of nonsense always upsets me. i remember richard nixon way back

when saying in one of his state of the union addresses (?) that he was going

to ask for X money for cancer research to end this plague once and for all

(or something like that.) not even cancer is safe from the politicians'

grab bag of game playing for popularity and votes.

paul