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PARIS (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz conjured up what initially appeared — to the chair umpire, to everyone watching in the stands or on TV and to his opponent, Ben Shelton — a remarkable lunging volley to win a point at the French Open on Sunday.But Alcaraz knew it shouldn’t count. So after briefly thinking about it, the defending champion at Roland-Garros fessed up and called himself for breaking the rules, handing the point to Shelton during what would become a 7-6 (8), 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 victory for Alcaraz in the fourth round.“It’s a shame, because it was the ‘Hot Shot’…
A three-year exercise program improved survival in colon cancer patients and kept disease at bay, a first-of-its-kind international experiment showed.With the benefits rivaling some drugs, experts said cancer centers and insurance plans should consider making exercise coaching a new standard of care for colon cancer survivors. Until then, patients can increase their physical activity after treatment, knowing they are doing their part to prevent cancer from coming back.“It’s an extremely exciting study,” said Dr. Jeffrey Meyerhardt of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who wasn’t involved in the research. It’s the first randomized controlled trial to show a reduction in cancer recurrences and…
New research suggests that blood tests known as “liquid biopsies” can improve the treatment of some people with metastatic breast cancer and help their tumors remain under control for more than a year.For many, it’s been a long time coming: More than a decade ago, researchers and investors predicted that liquid biopsies — which are sensitive enough to detect tumor cells and DNA in the blood — would be “game changers” in the realm of cancer.Although liquid biopsies haven’t replaced standard cancer screening methods like mammograms and colonoscopies, the new study and others like it demonstrate that the blood tests…
Exercise may significantly reduce the risk of colon cancer returning in patients after treatment, a new study has found.The late-phase trial, published Sunday in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago, found that people who followed an exercise program after undergoing surgery and chemotherapy for Stage 3 or high-risk Stage 2 colon cancer could reduce risk of the cancer returning, a new cancer diagnosis or death by 28%.“We approve drugs that have the same and in some cases less of a benefit than this,” said…
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Knicks went further than they’d gone in 25 years, just not as far as they hoped.They signaled they were serious about making a run at the NBA title when they traded for Mikal Bridges in the summer and then Karl-Anthony Towns in a preseason blockbuster, adding a top perimeter defender and an All-Star center to a lineup headlined by Jalen Brunson.Their all-in moves just couldn’t get them all the way there.The Knicks were eliminated by the Indiana Pacers on Saturday, leaving them without a championship since 1973. But after advancing to the Eastern…
PARIS (AP) — Iga Swiatek needed this type of turnaround, this sort of victory, given the tough-for-her past 12 months.So after she went from dropping eight of the first nine games against Elena Rybakina in the French Open’s fourth round Sunday, after she came through in the clutch, Swiatek responded with quite a reaction.Swiatek hung in there until she could put together a 1-6, 6-3, 7-5 comeback over 2022 Wimbledon champion Rybakina, extending her tournament winning streak to 25 matches and her bid for a record fourth consecutive championship at the clay-court major at Roland-Garros.When she took the last two…
CNN — Rosie O’Donnell has moved an ocean away from Hollywood, but she’s still entertaining audiences. The actress and former talk show host shared with Variety how she ended up playing a lesbian nun having a New York City adventure in “And Just Like That…,” which returned for its third season on HBO Max on Thursday. O’Donnell explained that she has long been friends with Cynthia Nixon, who plays Miranda on the comedy and its prequel, “Sex and the City.” “My daughter was actually her assistant on set,” O’Donnell explained. “She put her on there, and then she said, ‘By…
Janvi Kalra, an engineer at OpenAI, thinks students should diversify their experiences after college, with at least one internship at a Big Tech firm and another at a startup.That way, she said on an episode of The Pragmatic Engineer podcast, you have a better idea of what career path you should take.Kalra interned with Microsoft and Google. She then worked for productivity startup Coda before transitioning into her current role at OpenAI. She said both tracks have advantages and disadvantages.”The way I saw it, the upside of going to Big Tech was, first, you learn how to build reliable software for scale,” Kalra said. “It’s…
The other day, my family group chat lit up when I posed a question about whether it’s important to say “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT when asking it to conduct a niche search or plan out an itinerary.My mother, ever a stickler for manners, said she makes a conscious choice to behave in this way. A choice she said she makes to “keep myself human.”Another loved one later admitted she’s been leaning on the chatbot for guidance as she navigates a tricky moment in her marriage.And I couldn’t resist my temptation to ask ChatGPT to evaluate how attractive I…