51.   The most optimistic patients were also the most inclined to want aggressive anti-cancer treatment.

52.   The only aggressive treatment was cobalt, with terrible side effects.

53.   The problem is that doctors do not know how to tell which patient most needs early aggressive treatment and which can wait.

54.   The quandaries, ironically, stem in part from advances over the past two decades that have led to earlier diagnosis and more aggressive treatment.

55.   The reason is that people with inhalation anthrax may survive if their cases are diagnosed promptly and they receive aggressive treatment in the early stages of the infection.

56.   The outcome was a shock to the researchers, who suspected aggressive treatment was no better, but not that it would be worse.

57.   The results could lead to more aggressive medical treatment and counseling, or provide the relief of knowing that a tumor is benign.

58.   The results could lead to more aggressive medical treatment and counseling.

59.   The stem cells might be used instead of the bone marrow transplants that are given to people who have damaged immune systems because of aggressive treatment for cancer.

60.   The truth is profoundly different for hospice, which stands between aggressive medical treatment of the terminally ill and doctor-assisted suicide.