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Wednesday, 12/29/2004 8:45:57 PM

Wednesday, December 29, 2004 8:45:57 PM

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Anyone else see the segment on CBSnews tonight about the year ahead?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/12/29/eveningnews/main663863.shtml

While preventing cancer remains an elusive problem, diagnosing it and treating it is on the brink of drastic change.

Cancer specialists are already seeing the potential for advances like "designer chemotherapy" - drugs that will treat cancer based on an individual's genetic make-up.

"I think in some ways it's going to be the greatest medical breakthrough of this decade," says Pontin, the editor-in-chief of MIT's Technology Review magazine.


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