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...news prompted tabloid headlines proclaiming CANCER BREAKTHROUGH and led desperate patients around the country to deluge the NCI with requests for the new "cure." Such a reaction is clearly premature, warned Rosenberg (who was a spokesman for the team that treated President Reagan's colon cancer). "I am really anxious that this be kept in perspective," he said. "This is a promising first step in a new approach to use the body's own immune system against cancer. It is certainly not a cancer cure...
...worked with," says William H. Gump '85-86, director of the Public Service Program. "Mine was Tutoring Plus in the basement of a burned-out building. I thought it was the greatest thing. I'll always hold an affinity for that group. I'm still planning on marrying Marisol Colon who's nine years old now. She was five when...
...request of Puerto Rican Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon, a Ponce native, President Reagan declared Ponce, Coamo, Santa Isabel and the Atlantic Coast town of Toa Baja disaster zones, making the U.S. commonwealth island eligible for federal relief funds. Hernandez Colon also joined some 3,000 mourners at Ponce's sports coliseum in a memorial service for 23 of the dead. The Governor has vowed to continue the search for victims "as long as humanly possible," while plans are under discussion to turn the Mameyes ravine into a memorial park. For many residents of the devastated barrio, the site is likely...
...protein, which the Harvard team named angiogenin, was isolated from human colon-cancer cells after a decade-long search financed by a grant from Monsanto. What partly slowed the quest was the fact that the protein is found in the body in only minuscule quantities. Even so, says Team Member James Riordan, angiogenin is so potent that it can induce blood vessels to form when it is present in tissue as only one part per quadrillion...
Reagan's personal popularity remained high. When asked to rate his performance on a 1-to-10 scale, 60% put him in the top half. That was down slightly from the President's highest-ever rating of 67% in July, shortly after he underwent major surgery for colon cancer, but very close to the high standing he has maintained since 1981. Paradoxically, however, the issue of highest concern to Reagan matters less than ever to voters. When asked about the President's tax-reform plan, not even a quarter of the sample professed to be "very" or "fairly" familiar with...