Word: breast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN Mrs. Mary Brown, a plump, cheerful housewife from Dallas, had her first bout with breast cancer seven years ago, her doctors knew exactly what to do. Following the accepted procedure, they performed a radical mastectomy, removing the affected breast, the underlying muscle tissue and the nearby lymph nodes. Then they subjected her to intensive radiotherapy, hoping that the X-ray bombardment would kill any residual cancer cells. But when cancer recurred at the operation site two years ago, and raised reddish, golf-ball-sized lumps on the flat area where her left breast had been, the doctors were stymied...
...Edmund Klein of Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo has used BCG to stimulate an immune reaction against malignant melanoma, mycosis fungoides and other cancers that originate on the skin, as well as against such deep-seated tumors as breast cancer. He has also experimented with vaccines made from tumors similar to those of the patient, injecting the substance into cancer victims in the hope of triggering not a general immune reaction but one that is specifically directed against the cancer. Of those patients who responded immunologically, most showed marked improvement...
...Virginia Caspe Livingston of the University of San Diego has also used such vaccines in patients with breast cancer and cancer of the thymus, and has achieved remissions. Dr. Loren Humphrey, chairman of the department of surgery at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, has evaluated 96 patients who have received injections of cells from people with tumors similar to their own; more than 20 have had partial remissions and three now appear completely free of disease...
...which will conclude a very successful 1972-73 season a week from now at the NCAA's in Knoxville, Tenn. Jonkheer, who is from Manila, the Philippines, joins Mitchell as co-captain after breaking one of two University records left from the pre-Don Gambril era, the 100-yd. breast stroke, at the Easterns last weekend at West Point...
Jonkheer, who seems to perform best in the pressure situations, made the six-man finals of the 100-yd. breast stroke at the Easterns and proceeded to finish fourth with a new Harvard record time of 1:01.19. His important, and unexpected second against Dartmouth in January in the 200-yd. breast clinched the upset win over the Big Green...