Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard Medical School (HMS) Professor M. Judah Folkman--once touted as the man who would cure cancer, then maligned when his research couldn't be duplicated--this week held the first good news in a long time...
...then researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) couldn't get the same results and Folkman's methods were questioned in a Wall Street Journal article last November. Last week, Folkman's situation seemed to hit a new low as pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers Squib (BMS) announced they would no longer seek to produce the drugs Folkman developed...
This resulted in a flood of initial publicity, capped by a New York Times cover story in which Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of DNA James D. Watson was quoted as saying that Folkman would have the cure for cancer in two years...
...quoted remark made to the New York Times, Folkman quipped, "If you have cancer and you are a mouse, we can take very good care...
...another blow for Folkman last Tuesday, BMS--which had contracted to produce one of the drugs Folkman uses in his cancer treatment--pulled out of that agreement...