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To: mph who wrote (139012)	3/30/2007 7:45:44 PM
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Unfortunately;, I may have been wrong. O'REILLY: Now to Tony Snow -- a similar situation. Been through colon cancer. It goes into remission after he had the colon removed. And then it comes back. And now it's in the liver. What's the treatment for that? LOVE: Well, in that situation you have depending. If it's small enough and they can do it, they sometimes will surgically cut out the area of the liver that has the cancer in it. If not, you might do chemotherapy and try to shrink it to make it operable. Generally speaking, you can take care of it again. You can put somebody into remission. But it's hard to cure people once the cancer has come back again. O'REILLY: OK. And that's no matter where it comes back? It's hard to just knock the cancer out forever? LOVE: That's right. And that's why with all these cancers, we do such aggressive treatments when we first diagnose it. Because that's a real chance at the cure. And if we can't get it then, then we're playing catch- up. O'REILLY: OK. Now, for Tony, though, there are a number of drugs that are specific to the liver that you can target those lesions that he has. -- FNC Medical Correspondent Dr. Manny Alvarez was telling me this on the radio. -- And they're new drugs, correct? LOVE: There's a lot of new drugs. And specifically in colon cancer we have three or four new drugs that are very promising. That's one that blocks new blood vessels from feeding the cancer. And there's some new kinds of chemotherapy that have been very promising in colon cancer. And there's more on the way. So when I say we can't cure it, I'm talking about with the current tools we have at this minute today. And that's open for change. So it's hard to know what's going to happen in the future. O'REILLY: Yes, you want to keep the patient alive as long as possible so that they can benefit from anything that may be a year away or something like that. LOVE: Exactly. O'REILLY: In both of these cases, though, I mean you have interesting people here. Because Tony Snow I know him very, very well. He's a fighter. He's courageous. He's not going to give it an inch. Not an inch. And I assume Mrs. Edwards is the same way from what I hear. Both very strong, focused people, they don't feel sorry for themselves. You know they say, "OK, I have it. I'm going to deal with it." That means a lot, that kind of mental attitude. Correct? LOVE: Absolutely. And there even have been studies showing that the people who are — feel like victims and, "Oh, woe is me" and feel sorry for themselves are the ones that do the worst. And the fighting spirits, as they call it, which certainly describes both of these people, are the ones that do the best. So that does help; no question about it. Unfortunately, it can't do everything. O'REILLY: But you've got to go in with all your weapons and guns blazing. LOVE: Absolutely. O'REILLY: And faith and prayer have a lot to do with it, as well. I mean, you know, you have to put yourself almost into somebody else's hands. Just do what you have to do, fight the good fight and, you know, accept whatever happens. Doctor, we appreciate it very much. And of course, our prayers are with Tony Snow and Elizabeth Edwards. And I'm sure that most of Americans are with me on that. foxnews.com