Word: cancers
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...doctors intend to inject cells containing a gene from the bacterium E. coli into cancer patients at NIH. The gene itself will have no therapeutic power, but it will help the researchers monitor the effectiveness of an antitumor treatment. More important, the transplantation techniques being developed for the experiment could someday be used to cure several genetic ills, possibly including Huntington's disease, sickle-cell anemia and some types of muscular dystrophy. Says NIH director James Wyngaarden: "We have reached an important milestone in medical history...
...work combines the efforts of three top NIH scientists: Steven Rosenberg, an expert in cancer therapy, and W. French Anderson and R. Michael Blaese, two master gene manipulators. For several years Rosenberg has been developing a novel cancer treatment using a type of cancer-fighting cell called TILs (tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes). He removes TILs from cancer patients and clones large quantities of the cells in the laboratory. When this army of cells is reinjected into the patients, their tumors can shrink significantly. In one experiment with metastatic melanoma patients, 60% of them benefited from the therapy. But Rosenberg still needs...
Asbestos, the cancer-causing mineral that is being scrubbed from thousands of U.S. schools, is causing an epidemic of fear among the owners and tenants of asbestos-ridden office towers, shopping malls, industrial parks and apartment buildings. Even though the substance poses only a minimal health risk in most work environments, its widespread presence in the ceilings and walls of commercial buildings is prompting a sharp drop in the value of those , structures. It is also spurring a crash cleanup effort that may cost as much as $100 billion over the next 25 years. "Asbestos is the monster...
Once regarded as a magic mineral for its fireproofing and insulating properties, asbestos was severely restricted by the EPA in 1973 after high doses of its fibers were found to scar the lungs, causing cancer and other diseases. But by that time, 30 million tons had been wrapped around heating pipes and furnaces, sprayed onto girders and mixed into tiles at a cost of 25 cents per sq. ft. Now property owners are often spending 100 times that amount to remove it, cover it with a sealant, or enclose it with materials like Sheetrock...
Within days, the rebel offer had achieved what may have been one of its principal objectives: a division between Duarte and the U.S. Government. Gravely ill with stomach and liver cancer and legally barred from seeking another term, Duarte was caught off balance. He rejected the F.M.L.N. proposal to push back the election date as unconstitutional, telling a press conference, "It's not a plan for peace. It's a plan...