Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent discovery that cats have a natural defense system against leukemia may direct emphasis to an entirely new area of human cancer treatment called immunotherapy, a microbiologist at the School of Public Health said yesterday...
...significance of the discovery for human cancer research, Essex said, is that human beings may have similar defense mechanisms. It is possible that humans are all exposed to carcinogenic agents, but that only those with an abnormally low level of immunity get the disease, Essex added...
...Medical School and co-author of the report, said yesterday that the study, which lasted from 1968 to 1973, could not show follow-up survival rates even though it did demonstrate success at comparable stages of initial recovery. It often takes ten to 15 years to determine that cancer will not recur...
Weber said that radiation techniques used are "not well known in this country", but are widely used in Europe. The study was difficult to publish in a widely read medical journal because it "goes against the American Cancer Society's recommendation for the treatment of breast cancer...
...Radical mastectomy is not as radical as it purports to be," Weber said. While radical surgery, removes the lymph nodes from the armpit, cancer also spreads to the neck and internal mammary lymph nodes under the breastbone, Weber said...