Liver Cancer

Arnold Feuerman,81, an inventor and former chairman of Arnold Automotive Group, one of the nation's largest auto dealers, died Friday in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., of liver cancer.Willi Millowitsch,90, one of Germany's best-known comic actors and a fixture at the Cologne carnival, died Monday in Cologne.Fred Roti,78, a former Chicago alderman who was convicted of political corruption, died of lung cancer Monday in Chicago.

Oseola McCarty, 91, a one-time washerwoman who earned widespread recognition after she donated her life savings to the University of Southern Mississippi, died Sunday in Hattiesburg, Miss., of complications of liver cancer.In donating the $150,000 in July 1995, she said she wanted to give others the chance to get an education she never had.ObituariesBecause of limited space and the large number of requests for obituaries, The Sun regrets that it cannot publish all the obituaries it receives.

Theodore Hall, 74, who helped develop the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, N.M., and was later revealed to have passed on some of its secrets to the Soviets, died Nov. 1 of cancer in Cambridge, England, his wife, Joan, said yesterday.Lester Bowie, 58, a jazz trumpeter who was a founding member of the long-running Art Ensemble of Chicago, died Monday in New York from complications from liver cancer.George McMurtrie Godley, 82, who served as U.S. ambassador to Laos and Lebanon during the Vietnam War, died Sunday in Oneonta, N.Y., of heart failure.

Alex Lowe, 40, regarded by some as the world's best mountain climber, was killed by an avalanche Tuesday as he scouted routes on the upper slopes of Tibet's 26,291-foot Shishapangma, the world's 14th-highest peak.A.L. Owens,68, who wrote dozens of country music hits, died Monday from a heart attack in Nashville, Tenn.Amalia Rodrigues,79, the Portuguese singer whose passionate performances of the country's brooding "fado" music took her to worldwide fame, died Wednesday in Lisbon, Portugal.

Harold W. Ezell, 61, the co-author of California's controversial Proposition 187 and a vocal advocate of immigration reform, died of liver cancer Tuesday in Newport Beach, Calif. He helped draft Proposition 187, which sought to eliminate publicly funded education and most health care services to undocumented immigrants. The measure passed in November 1994 but was later ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge.John R. Williams, 88, who helped propel Republicans to statewide power and was the first Arizona governor to serve a four-year term, died Monday in Phoenix.

Elena Garro, 77, a Mexican playwright and novelist, died Saturday of heart and lung failure in Mexico City. The former wife of the late Mexican poet and Nobel laureate Octavio Paz had suffered from emphysema for years.She wrote more than two dozen best-selling novels in Spanish and as many plays, and won several literary awards, including the Sor Inez de la Cruz, one of Mexico's top prizes.Few of her works were translated into English, but she was well known in Europe.Stuart Regen, 39, producer of the movie "Leaving Las Vegas" and a prominent West Hollywood art dealer, died Tuesday of cancer in Los Angeles.

Harold Wilson, 76, a Marine who won the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for military bravery, died Sunday in West Columbia, S.C., of lung cancer.He was a sergeant when he helped fight an enemy attack through the night of April 23-24, 1951, during the Korean War.Wounded in an arm, a leg, his head and a shoulder, he rallied troops, delivered ammunition and administered first aid as attackers swarmed his platoon's position. Only after the final attack had been repulsed at dawn did Mr. Wilson walk unassisted a half-mile to the aid station.

Munir Bashir, 67, an Iraqi musician whose use of the oud, a pear-shaped stringed instrument, promoted Arabic music around the world, died of a heart attack Monday in Cairo, Egypt.Hector Julio Paride Bernabo, 86, the Brazilian artist known for colorful paintings of Afro-Brazilian religious cults, died Wednesday. Better known by his nickname, Carybe, Paride Bernabo died in the northeastern city of Salvador, where he had lived for more than 45 years.Virginia A. Dwyer, 76, a former senior vice president at American Telephone & Telegraph Co.. and one of the first women to reach the top ranks of a major U.S. company, died of cancer Monday in New York.

Roberto Sanchez Vilella,84, the former governor who helped transform Puerto Rico from a poor agricultural society to one of industry and commerce, died Tuesday of liver cancer in San Juan. He was Puerto Rico's second elected governor, serving from 1965 to 1969.Mr. Sanchez was remembered for promoting Puerto Rico as a world contender in baseball, among other sports. His support was critical in having Puerto Rico send a team to the 1948 Olympic Games in London.L. Stacey Weaver,92, a longtime educator and the first president of Methodist College in North Carolina, died Tuesday in Lakeland, Fla.He was president of the school from 1957 to 1973, where he oversaw the expansion of a campus of 50 students to 1,200.

Dr. Giulio J. Barbero,74, internationally known for his cystic fibrosis research and patient advocacy, died Saturday of cancer in Columbia, Mo.Wally Bruner,66, a former ABC News correspondent and host of the "What's My Line?" television show, died of liver cancer Monday in Indianapolis.George Chambers,69, a former Trinidad prime minister whose insistence that Trinidad diversify out of oil cost his party its 30-year control of Parliament, died Tuesday in Port-of-Spain. He had been suffering from prostate cancer.

Columbia-based Celsion has deal with Japan firm Columbia-based drug maker Celsion Corp. said yesterday that Japanese pharmaceutical firm Yakult Honsha Co. Ltd has agreed to pay up to $20.5 million in licensing fees for the rights to market Celsion's liver cancer treatment, ThermoDox, to the Japanese market. ThermoDox is in a phase 3 clinical trial in the U.S. for liver cancer as well as a phase 2 trial for recurrent chest wall breast cancer. Yakult will pay Celsion $2.5 million, followed by $18 million once ThermoDox gains approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare to treat primary liver cancer.

Twenty-five years ago, a diagnosis of AIDS was a nearly immediate death sentence. But now that patients with the AIDS virus are living longer, doctors are discovering a new set of complications: People with HIV have a much higher risk of developing certain cancers - lung, liver, head and neck, to name a few - and doctors fear that a cancer epidemic among this group could be coming. Researchers in Maryland, home to one of the nation's largest AIDS populations per capita, are among the leaders in an effort to solve what has become something of a medical mystery.

Those who knew Anna Tomalis best say the way she went about her life near the end truly captured her spirit. The 13-year-old Clarksville resident, who had been battling a rare form of liver cancer for three years, was struggling physically in recent days. But she resolved to press on with life, managing to go horseback riding and take in a movie. "Anna lived life to the fullest," said her father, Ron Tomalis. "She had every reason to not do something, but she always found ways to overcome her discomfort."

Janice Marie Stelmach, a retired secretary who had beaten back cancer four times over a 23-year period, died of complications from liver cancer Monday at her home in Mount Airy. She was 66. Janice Waltrup was born in Washington to Elizabeth Waltrup and Charles Waltrup. She graduated in 1959 from Seton Keough High School in Baltimore. She worked as a secretary for a shipping company and a paintbrush manufacturer before she married George Stelmach in 1963. The couple lived in Virginia for a short time, then settled in Brooklyn Park, where they lived for 28 years.

Maryland : Biotechnology FDA approves Celsion study design Celsion Corp., the Columbia biotech, announced yesterday that the Food and Drug Administration has approved its study design for a final clinical trial of ThermoDox to treat primary liver cancer. Celsion said it would begin a 600-patient trial at 40 sites, including a number in Asia, where the incidence of liver cancer is higher than it is in the United States. ThermoDox, a heat-sensitive encapsulation of an approved cancer drug, will be tested in combination with radio frequency ablation, a liver cancer treatment in which electrical signals are used to heat the tumor.

CHICAGO -- A new drug looks poised to become the first effective treatment for liver cancer, one of the deadliest and most common cancers in the world, whose incidence has been rising in the United States, doctors said yesterday. In a large clinical trial, the drug, called Nexavar, extended the lives of patients by almost three months, or 44 percent. While that is far from a cure, experts say it represents a breakthrough after years of efforts to find a drug that works. "We did not have anything for these patients," said Dr. Josep M. Llovet, one of the principal investigators in the trial.

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On April 19, 2006, MARK D. GIBBS, after a brief battle with liver cancer, he was 43 years old. He is survived by all who love him, in us he will live until we meet again. Memorial services were held, both in Jacksonville and Key West, Florida, attended by many friends and relatives.

Stew Albert, 66, a founder of the Youth International Party, whose members were better known as Yippies, died of liver cancer Monday in Portland, Ore. Mr. Albert was clubbed by police during the 1968 anti-war protests at the Democratic National Convention and was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the ensuing Chicago 7 trial. Though he helped found the Yippies, better-known leaders of the group included Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and Paul Krassner. The Yippies in 1968 advanced a pig as candidate for president.

Larry D. Athen, who fought liver cancer while coaching a Howard County youth football team and was a regional sales manager for a computer forms company, died of the disease Friday at his Ellicott City home. He was 62. The Mid-Atlantic Sports and Recreation Alliance awarded Mr. Athen its first Sportsmanship Coach of the Year Award for Howard County last year. House of Delegates Speaker Michael E. Busch presented the plaque to him at the State House. "He was an outstanding man," said Michael H. Milani, sports supervisor for the Howard County Department of Recreation and Parks.