11.   Patients at the hearing stressed the toll chemotherapy treatments took on their ability to raise children, work or enjoy daily activities over the years.

12.   Some patients, not realizing the treatments never took place, have actually sent checks to cover co-payments to doctors they have never seen, doctors said.

13.   Successful treatment can take a year or more, and must address the underlying causes, McAuley says.

14.   That he emerges here, as the wistful, seasoned voice of this mostly intelligent novel, is some kind of proof that the treatment must have taken.

15.   The treatments took away his frown line, which came from years of scrutinizing patients.

16.   Treatment can take six months to a year, and involves a concentrated regimen of medication.

17.   Treatment can take minutes or hours, depending on size of target area.

18.   A full treatment takes seven vials.

19.   TB is usually treated with antibiotics and bedrest, and treatment may take up to a year.

20.   The drugs are cheap but treatment can take as long as eight months during which time patients have to take a dozen pills each day.