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Word: citrovorum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the novel method was under hopeful study in both the U.S. and faraway Africa. The drug Dr. Sullivan and his colleagues chose was Methotrexate, because it has a handy, harmless and effective antagonist in folinic acid, also known as CF, for citrovorum factor. At Memorial and other hospitals, they have tried the combination on a score of patients with cancer confined to the head, where a high concentration of the drug could be infused through a single artery in the neck. In many cases the cancers shrank rapidly, and one man is disease-free after two courses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Battling Cancer by Infusion | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

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