Word: celling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They did not; several months in isolation followed. But Green was not cured. In 1955, he sawed his way out of his cell, but the alarm went off before he and his confederates could get any farther. Desperately, they took over a cell block, and an 84-hour prison revolt began that 38 state policemen and an Army tank could not quell. It only ended when Ringleader Green's daughter pleaded with him to surrender; after extracting some promises of reforms, he did. Some promises were kept, but Green was on his way to Alcatraz, the federal...
...normal cell division, the chromosomes split, forming two complete sets that migrate to opposite sides of the cell. The cell then divides down the middle forming two cells, each with a complete set of chromosomes. Treated with colchicine, however, the cell creates the additional chromosomes, but subsequently fails to divide, thus creating a cell with double the normal number of chromosomes...
...Sloan-Kettering Institute introduced another anti-leukemia drug, 6-mercaptopurine. Use of the two drugs in succession, along with prednisone (a cortisone-type hormone) raised the kill to three to five logs. Since 1963, with half a dozen new anti-leukemia drugs available for concurrent or consecutive use, the cell kill achieved in the best cancer centers has reached ten logs, reducing the leukemic-cell count...
Since even these few cells can multiply and cause relapses, the obvious objective is a twelve-log kill-the elimination of every last leukemic cell. And the ultracautious Dr. Zubrod made what is, for him, a wildly optimistic statement: "I believe that in about 25% of patients with acute lymphocytic leukemia now starting treatment, the cell kill is approaching twelve logs...
...this does not mean that such care is limited to children living close to those centers. Dr. Zubrod urged his physician listeners to refer patients with suspected leukemia to the centers where, if the diagnosis is confirmed, they can be treated by a team of experts until the leukemic cell count has dropped below the critical trillion-a matter of weeks or months. Then they can go home, to be watched over and given further treatment by a doctor who needs no more resources than his own community hospital, provided he keeps in touch with the center's specialists...