Word: boned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...position to comment on PBH. He obviously knows little of PBH's legal status or activities, and his comments on the Keylatch accident show how little he knows about summer day camps. The most serious injury suffered in the Keylatch van accident was a fractured collar bone, a common sports injury, not [as serious] an injury as Mr. Nordhaus might have you believe. Significantly, the overcrowding of children into the PBH van in the Keylatch accident was a clear violation of existing PBHA policy; it is not something condoned by PBHA. In any event, one child in the front seat...
...treatment for non-Hodgkins lymphoma involves taking bone marrow out of patients while they undergo chemotherapy and radiation, and then replacing the marrow after it is treated with a special antibody the researchers developed...
...said one of the most important aspects of the new treatment was that it could be applied in the future to patients with recently-diagnosed cases of the lymphoma. Usually lymphoma treatments using bone marrow transplants have been applied only to patients who have experienced a relapse of the disease...
...treatment the doctors used, the patient is first given chemotherapy, in order to lessen the number of the tumor cells. Next, the doctors removed one-fifth of the patient's bone marrow through needles...
They then treated the patients with intense chemotherapy, and then gave them high levels of irradiation, to ensure that the cancerous bone marrow would not return. Afterwards, the treated marrow was thawed and given back to the patients intravenously, Nadler said...