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record
FIGHTING
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SENTENCE
A new process to treat pancreatic cancer delivers a higher dose of chemotherapy
JAMES BORCHUCK | Times
directly to the artery that feeds the tumor. Dr. Alex Rosemurgy, the lead investigator in
the study, believes the approach will have a better chance of destroying the tumor.
Dr. Alex Rosemurgy checks up on David Allison
during a visit Aug. 21 at Florida Hospital Tampa.
Allison was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
March 26 and initially underwent traditional
chemotherapy. He now is part of a trial testing
a new treatment.
He campaigns as a governor who
built consensus, but legislators
remember things differently.
Inflated
proximal
balloon
Inflated distal balloon
BY ADAM C. SMITH
Guidewire
Times Political Editor
By inflating the two balloons
Pancreas
Jeb Bush says he’s the man to fix the partisan
gridlock and dysfunction in Washington. It just
takes a willingness to find common ground and
reach across the aisle to work with people who may
often disagree with you.
“I don’t assume it’s my way or the highway,” Florida’s former governor recently told a woman who
asked at the Iowa State Fair how his style differs
from Donald Trump’s.
Jeb Bush, consensus-builder? That’s not the leadership style most people remember from his eight
years as governor.
“His style is my way or the highway,” said former
Florida House Speaker Johnnie Byrd, a Republican
who supported most of Bush’s agenda but is undecided for 2016. “The whole time I worked with him,
he never listened to me or anybody else in the process. If Mitch McConnell and John Boehner think
they’re going to have a great relationship with President Jeb Bush, they better watch out.”
Former Republican state Sen. Nancy Argenziano, who several times opposed pieces of Bush’s
agenda, recalled little appetite for compromise or
negotiation from the governor: “If you don’t agree
with him on something, there is no making it better. It’s my way or hit the highway.”
on either side of the artery, the
catheter blocks the flow of
blood into and out of the artery,
ensuring that a high
dose of the
chemotherapy
reaches the
tumor.
Drug flows
between balloons
and is forced in
direction of tumor
Catheter
inserted
in arm
Chemotherapy
drugs reach the
tumor.
Source: RenovoRx
A Tampa doctor is testing a novel approach to treat pancreatic cancer that
targets tumors with high dosages of chemo. Will it work? That’s hard to say.
BY KATHLEEN MCGRORY
Times Staff Writer
TAMPA — David Allison knew
better than most his chances of surviving pancreatic cancer.
His brother and sister had died
from the disease.
“I figured it was the beginning of
the end,” said the 75-year-old retired
milk truck driver, who spends his
winters in Oldsmar.
Allison tried fighting the cancer
with conventional chemotherapy
and radiation in April. But the treatment made him weak. His appetite disappeared. He lost nearly 30
pounds.
He had resigned to let the disease
run its notoriously deadly course
— until a doctor told him about
something that sounded promising: a novel approach to chemotherapy that could deliver high doses
directly to his tumor, while sparing
him some of the side effects.
“All of a sudden, I had hope,” Allison said.
So do the doctors at Florida Hospital Tampa, one of two hospitals
nationally conducting clinical trials on the procedure. Dr. Alex Rosemurgy, the lead investigator, said the
treatment has the potential to shrink
pancreatic tumors more effectively
than conventional chemotherapy.
.
Dr. Alex Rosemurgy and
patient David
Allison talk about the
new procedure to treat
pancreatic cancer.
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who says he has
a history of bringing people together to get
things done, speaks Wednesday in Pensacola.
Storm still threat
to cause flooding
Performers from
Gallery of the Streets
dance along the
repaired levee wall in
the Lower Ninth Ward
in New Orleans during
a ceremony marking
the 10th anniversary
of Hurricane Katrina
on Saturday. Cities
along the Gulf Coast
mourned the victims of
the hurricane but also
celebrated how far the
region has come since.
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Tropical Storm Erika breaks up, but still more
rain is expected to pound the Tampa Bay area.
BY TONY MARRERO
Times Staff Writer
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Ten of the people who make the
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IN PERSPECTIVE
Before Ferguson,
there was New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina and the
response to it haunt the black
political consciousness in ways
whites still don’t comprehend. 1P
Tropical Storm Erika broke up
in the Caribbean on Saturday,
leaving behind a wave of moisture expected to bring heavy
rainfall to the Tampa Bay area in
the next few days.
The National Hurricane Center lifted tropical storm warnings and watches about 9 a.m.
after Erika dissipated into a
trough of low pressure, a victim
of wind shear and high terrain in
Haiti, the Dominican Republic
and Cuba.
The storm’s demise means
Florida will likely escape the kind
of destruction wrought in Dominica, where more than 20 people
died and many more are feared
dead. But authorities urged Floridians to prepare for more
rain — especially in Tampa Bay,
where some areas have yet to
fully recover from recent record
rainfall.
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