Bill Bushnell now has two birthdays—the day he was born and the day he was reborn. Bushnell never expected to be reborn. Diagnosed in May 2005 with stage IV metastatic melanoma, his prognosis was not good. The cancer had spread to his lungs by the time doctors found it. Surgery at first appeared to be [...]
Tumors are being increasingly perceived as abnormal organs that, in many respects, recapitulate the outgrowth and differentiation patterns of normal tissues. In line with this idea is the observation that only a small fraction of tumor cells is capable of initiating a new tumor. Because of the features that these cells share with somatic stem [...]
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reported a possible link between breast implants and a rare type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma known as anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL). Worldwide, an estimated 5 million to 10 million women have breast implants. Thus far, ALCL has been reported in only 60 women, but close examination of [...]