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Article: The doc's progress.(On the Right)(the search for medical cures)(Column)(Brief Article)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- July 20, 1998
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On successive weeks the public learned that a medical insight has suggested a way to go to--kill cancer; and that a second (and unrelated) study suggests that we are no closer than ever to devising the means to stop a cold. The cancer story, the story of a quiet, mythogenic research doctor who has been plugging away at his notion that cancer can't extrude its poisons unless it is fed, made huge headlines and is featured in both Time and Newsweek, as well it should be. Over 500,000 Americans die every year from cancer. Moreover, its ugly face putrefies life, attacking the very young and bringing agony to the very old. It did not surprise that when Moses Judah Folkman's ...