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Possible jail time isn't her biggest worry; she was due to start chemo for ovarian cancer last week...
...addition to McDreamy, older women tune in to Grey's Anatomy for its rich cast of characters, riveting storylines and quirky medical cases (a writer who swallows his first novel, a pregnant cancer patient who rejects chemo in order to have a healthy baby, a woman "suffering" from uncontrollable orgasms). Unlike edgier high-concept hits such as 24 and Lost, Grey's harkens back to TV's conventional medical dramas, including St. Elsewhere and E.R. - topped with a hefty dose of sex to keep up with the times. At a time when TV is also overflowing with either unscripted reality...
...Here pumping the chest, inflating the lungs, filling the blood vessels and starting the heart were the immediate and technically demanding needs. It was only when the medicine was unknown to us or very complex - renal failure cases, rare diseases or cancer patients on weird experimental chemo - that we looked to the medical residents for help...
...drugs, and adding them to chemotherapy, will be. In some ways, it's a fallback strategy, says Dr. Leonard Saltz, a colon cancer specialist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. "Nobody set out to develop [these drugs] as an additive to chemotherapy," he says. "They were supposed to replace chemo, and make us look back and say, ?Can you believe that we had a barbaric age when we were treating patients with something that made them lose their hair and vomit their guts out?' But they didn't work, and if you can't beat them, join them...
...against the odds. Twice—in the mid-80’s with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, for which he received a bone marrow transplant, and in the 90’s for prostate cancer—Lucchino had experienced the twin hells of cancer and chemo...