1.   Doctors hope a week off will allow it to tighten and enable him to play next week.

2.   Doctors hope combining Melacine and interferon will improve results.

3.   In less than a week, his cleansed bone marrow will be reintroduced to his body, the final stage in what doctors hope will cure him.

4.   Elderly Americans with a particularly deadly leukemia won a new treatment Thursday that doctors hope could be less traumatic for their patients.

5.   In the works are protease inhibitors that doctors hope will need to be taken twice or even just once a day.

6.   The room has all the facilities of an intensive care ward and its atmosphere is controlled, which doctors hope will prevent Papandreou from picking up a new infection.

7.   Zyvox, doctors hope, will help.

8.   That operation has given her the ability to make the left side of her face quiver, giving doctors hope it will develop into a smile.