Word: gastroenterologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tumors removed from 45 patients with common colorectal cancer. Result: the section of chromosome 5 that contains the FAP gene was missing in more than 25% of the cases. The finding suggested that such cancers occur only after one protective gene is lost and the other is inactivated. Says Gastroenterologist Sidney Winawer, of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City: "This gives us a better idea of where to look for a genetic cause of colon cancer...
...Nobel Prize of liver research." Given every three years since 1970 by the Falk Foundation of Freiburg, West Germany, the Eppinger Prize carries an award of $5,000, and among hepatologists (liver specialists), a generous measure of international prestige. But last spring, when Dr. Howard Spiro, 60, a Yale gastroenterologist, first heard of the Eppinger Prize, his reaction was one of horror. He clearly remembered reading about a pioneering Viennese liver specialist named Hans Eppinger who had planned vicious experiments on inmates of Nazi concentration camps. He recalled that the doctor had committed suicide when summoned to the Nuremberg...
...gastroenterologist at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital said yesterday that "we have to have a healthy skepticism" about the test's effectiveness...