Letter: Incurable patients bill.

Incurable Physician

illustrated. 25s.) Kingswood, Surrey: The World's Work (1913) Ltd.,-1964. THIS interesting book starts with the author's experiences as a hospital intern in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. It records the author's by no means placid life in the most exciting and formative years of American life and medicine up to the present day. It is an intensely personal account with good stories and st...

Symptom prevalence in patients with incurable cancer: a systematic review.

The suffering of patients with incurable cancer is determined to a large degree by the presence and intensity of the symptoms of their disease. Knowledge of symptom prevalence is important for clinical practice. The main aim of this study was to obtain a reliable estimation of symptom prevalence in patients with incurable cancer by performing a systematic review of studies assessing this topic....

Curing "incurable" cancer.

Cancer cells are preferentially killed by anticancer agents because key signals for growth and cell division are "always on" as opposed to the alternative "on" and "off" signaling of normal cells. Too much of today's anticancer drug discovery effort may go toward reversing genetically promoted "always on" signals. More effective anticancer drug targets may be found through use of RNAi technolog...

The New Incurable Wound

who married the fertility goddess Cybele, became king of Phrygia. He then dedicated his chariot to Zeus in the city Gordium and fastened it to a column with a large, complicated knot that became known as the Gordian knot. An oracle predicted that the future king of Asia would be the only person who could disentangle this knot. Many individuals who traveled to Gordium attempted to untie the knot...

Against a Federal Patients' Bill of Rights