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THE OSO MUDSLIDE
Science of the slide
Providence Regional Cancer Partnership plans to recruit about 50 women for a study of whether the vaccine helps prevent recurrence of breast cancer. By Sharon Salyer Herald Writer
It’s been a long-time goal in the fight against cancer: Using the body’s own immune system to fight the disease. Everett’s Providence Regional Cancer Partnership is one of 13 sites nationally that is testing whether a vaccine, in combination with another medication, is effective in preventing a recurrence in certain types of breast cancer. They hope to recruit about 50 women to participate in the study. The patients they seek must have low-to-moderate amounts of the HER2 protein present in their cancer. Currently women with high amounts of HER2 protein are given a drug called Herceptin to try to prevent recurrence. That’s about 25 percent of women diagnosed with breast cancer, said Dr. Jason Lukas, an oncologist at the cancer partnership. The medical study being conducted in Everett and other sites nationally is to see if this drug, in combination with a vaccine, is effective in preventing a recurrence of breast cancer in women who have low-to-moderate presence of the protein in their tumors. The vaccine is made in part from the HER2 protein and a drug that stimulates the production of white blood cells. If the study results show that the combination treatment is effective in preventing breast cancer recurrence, it would be a See VACCINE, back page, this section
PHOTOS BY MARK MULLIGAN / THE HERALD
Dale Topham, supervisor of Snohomish County’s geotechnical group, picks apart a large lacustrine deposit, the material that formed the bed of an ancient lake that once filled the Stillaguamish Valley.
Learning why mountain fell will be long process By Chris Winters Herald Writer
Surveyors like Carl Hagaman have kept measurements of targets along the ridge line and on debris at the site.
more photos, see the >> For online version of this article at www.heraldnet.com
OSO — The sounds of the countryside were everywhere. Birds tweeted in the trees, a breeze blew through the leaves and brush. A rooster crowed. The North Fork Stillaguamish River softly rushed through the valley. The landscape, however, consisted of a square mile of upended terrain left by the March 22 mudslide that wiped out the Steelhead Haven community, killing 41 people and leaving two missing and presumed buried under tons of earth and debris. On a small hill on the south edge of the slide area sat a survey station. Dale Topham, the supervisor of Snohomish County’s geotechnical engineering group,
and surveyor party chief Carl Hagaman last week were taking measurements of several “targets,” two-foot-square markers, each with a bright red “X,” that were placed on the edges of the new ridge line and down below on piles of debris. “Looks like Seven is moving around a lot,” Hagaman said. “Every time I look at it there’s a new branch in front of it.” Target seven was on a tree about halfway up the northeastern edge of the slide. The handheld device that communicates with the survey gun mounted on a tripod showed that the target had moved 5.3 feet to the south and 3.1 feet to the west. On the other hand, targets at the very top of the slope, See SCIENCE, Page A10
FOLDING ON STEELHEAD
A DAY FOR MOTHERS IN LAW, TOO
A Cascade High School teacher shares the airport’s history. Julie Muhlstein, B1
A litigious outfit bullied the state into a deal, a local state senator argues. Viewpoints, B5
Jennifer Bardsley honors the other Mrs. Bardsley in her daughter’s life. Good Life, D1
Classified . . . . . E2 Crossword . . . . D4
Dear Abby. . . . . D5 Horoscope . . . . D4
Local News. . . . B1 Lottery . . . . . . . A2
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Obituaries. . . . . B3 Viewpoints . . . . B5
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