1.   AUSTIN, Texas -- Like many women, Jaquelin Dudley and Shelly Payne look at the available treatments for breast cancer tumors and shudder.

2.   Because of the toxic nature of chemotherapy, researchers are increasingly focusing on other ways to deal with cancer tumors, from antibody to gene therapy.

3.   Boston Life Sciences Inc. said its experimental drug halted the growth of cancer tumors in mice.

4.   But it was not immediately clear whether this process could be enhanced to do a better job than mammography or other existing x-ray technologies at finding breast cancer tumors.

5.   By reducing the testosterone levels, Lupron merely slows cancer growth and sometimes shrinks the prostate cancer tumor in anticipation of a more intense treatment, Nelson said.

6.   Endostatin attacks the blood vessels that nourish cancer tumors.

7.   One metal, gadolinium, helps MRIs detect cancer tumors.

8.   Research with animals has found that chlorpromazine, a medication frequently used to treat schizophrenia, slows the growth of experimentally induced cancer tumors.

9.   Scientists have discovered a new gene that probably influences the growth and progress of breast cancer tumors.

10.   The patent, on a mouse with genes that created cancer tumors, was the first of a genetically engineered mammal, not of a living organism.