The other, a 4-year-old girl with liver and lung cancer, requires chemotherapy that Aetna thinks is experimental.

Torre expects to be re-examined in about a month to make sure he does not require any radiation or chemotherapy.

Successful treatment may require surgery, which may include transplantation, and chemotherapy appropriate for the type of cancer that is present.

Mitterrand's personal doctor said his condition could be treated easily - probably with pills - and did not require chemotherapy.

It should not be done in patients who require chemotherapy.

Successful treatment may require surgery (which may include transplantation) and chemotherapy.

Treatment requires extensive chemotherapy for up to two years.

His second bout with cancer, in 1982, was even more serious, requiring chemotherapy that left him without hair, and ill and exhausted for months.

Many forms of cancer require chemotherapy, which often causes severe and irregular hair loss.

Then came an astonishing question: "And have you had a relapse yet requiring chemotherapy?"