Doctors avoid calling cancer cured despite long remission
Cancer experts acknowledge cure is undefined and rarely used. Doug Jensen’s leukemia vanished on Gleevec but doctors call him in remission or undetectable, not cured. Survivorship labeling persists, with figures like Lance Armstrong and Julia Rowland weighing emotional vs medical meanings while insisting recurrence is possible.
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Doug Jensen
Oregon
Jensen
Lance Armstrong
Julia Rowland
Federal Office of Cancer Survivorship
Diane Balma
Susan G. Komen
Breast Cancer Foundation
Quakes swarm eastern Sierra near Mammoth Lakes
A swarm of earthquakes near the California Nevada line northeast of Mammoth Lakes included a 5.5 magnitude quake at 4 02 p m followed by 5 4 magnitude tremors at 4 43 p m Most quakes were magnitude 2 or less with no immediate injuries or damage reported Observers noted quakes felt up to 35 miles away in Hawthorne Nevada and experts said the fault has produced notable activity in the past decade.
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Mammoth Lakes
Calif
Sierra Nevada
Mono County
California-Nevada
David Oppenheimer
U.S. Geological Survey
Menlo Park
Oppenheimer
Hawthorne
New
Mineral County
Lorraine Haight
Dennis Bauer
Lake Forest
Mono Lake
Lee Vining
Sierra
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