Computers and math could also help design new cancer vaccines, says Stanford University hematologist Peter P.

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The critical care doctors and the hematologist worked day and night to figure out what was happening to me.

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And several professional organizations have petitioned Medicare to change its mind including the American Society of Clinical Oncologist and the American Society of Hematologist.

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Gary Gilliland, a hematologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, used a Web discussion board to recruit hundreds of patients willing to give him genetic samples.

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"For the 5q- people, this behaves almost like Gleevec, " says Alan List , the hematologist at the Arizona Cancer Center who conducted the Revimid trials.

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Nicole Kucine is a pediatric hematologist and oncologist who's getting more training at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and has volunteered at the camp for four years.

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But even in this short paragraph, the hematologist moves rapidly from response rate percentages to progression percentages in the former, high numbers being good, in the latter, high numbers being bad.

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"They say, 'Well, we'll tell her it's just a cold, or it's just a virus, or we'll tell her she'll have surgery and then everything will be fine, '" said Dr. Lawrence Wolfe, a pediatric hematologist-oncologist at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York.

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