Can the Common Cold Cure Cancer?
“,”description”:”On a sunny San Francisco morning in the University of California’s gleaming new Cancer Center, Frank McCormick is listening to the complaints of David Jablons, a thoracic surgeon. Jablons is describing the lack of good remedies for lung cancer with a candor that few patients get to hear. ”The majority of what we do is depressingly pathetic — for the most part cancer is a systemic disease,” Jablons says, referring to its frequent dissemination through the body even before the first tumor is noticed. ”For advanced-stage disease, lung cancer is 90 to 95 percent fatal when diagnosed.” “,”keywords”:”ONYX PHARMACEUTICALS, COLDS, ADENOVIRUS, CANCER, VIRUSES, RESEARCH,MCCORMICK FRANK,UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA”,”section”:”magazine”,”sub_section”:null,”section_display”:”Magazine”,”sub_section_display”:null,”byline”:”By Nicholas Wade”,”pubdate”:”December 21, 1997″,”passkey”:null}; function getShareURL() { return encodeURIComponent(articleToolsShareData.url); } function getSha
