The quest for cancer-preventing drugs
Friday, October 17, 2008 - 20:56
in Health & Medicine
It's one thing to develop medicine without horrific side effects, and another to get doctors and patients on board. The prevention approach faces an uphill struggle. At 66 years old, Vincent Motyl has the gravelly voice and rumbling laugh of a man who's spent much of his life in a halo of cigarette smoke. He grew up amid the industrial soot of Pittsburgh in a houseful of smokers and started a two-pack-a-day habit at 18.