Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...characteristic of boranes is their ability to attract radiation. If boranes can be combined with chemicals that are present in tumor cells, they could help to localize the effects of radiation applied to cancer patients...
Although Lipscomb's initial research was so basic that it was not designed for any practical application, the study of these types of molecules in cancer therapy has already begun...
Prompt Treatment. Humphrey's chances were vastly improved by the fact that his doctors had been on the lookout for cancer ever since they had found and removed several pinhead-size nonmalignant growths in his bladder in 1968. Five years later, they discovered some new, possibly cancerous tissue, which was promptly treated with the anticancer drug thiotepa and sessions of X-ray therapy that took five minutes a day for five weeks. ("The worst experience in my life," Humphrey recalls.) The therapy worked and the Senator was found cancer-free for three years, but a recent examination...
Known as a radical cystectomy, it involved removal not only of the bladder (the body's reservoir for urine) but of other parts associated with the urinary tract as well: the prostate gland, the lymph nodes-which are being further examined to see if the cancer has spread to them-and fatty tissue around the bladder, and part of the urethra (the tube leading from the bladder through the penis). Such extensive surgery, Whitmore later explained, is routine in radical cystectomies (which his team performs at a rate of 80 to 100 a year), and does not mean that...
Still, he and his doctors will have to remain vigilant. As added insurance against any recurrence of cancer, the Memorial team may offer him an experimental postoperative regimen of two new anticancer drugs, cis platinum and cytoxan. The objective: to kill any small clusters of cancerous cells that may have eluded the surgeon's scalpel...