Word: curely
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What makes laetrile so in demand is what the Krebs claimed was its "antineoplastic" activity. That means it's supposed to shrink tumor growth, or as they say in medicine, cure cancer. People who are convinced laetrile will arrest their cancers sometimes manage to get around the FDA, and one particularly desperate man in Oklahoma City who won a case last month was granted a six-month supply of laetrile. The FDA is fighting the verdict...
...limits on experimentation suggests the type of facility where heady and expert investigators can experiment on human beings with impunity, but he emphasizes the ethical obligation to serve the patient first, above any commitment to research. But Frei adds, "For patients with disseminated cancer where there is no cure, therapeutic treatment is treatment.... The important dividend to appreciate is that even if that drug does not work, in a patient, the door of hope has been held open...
...Brigham Hospital and a hematologist, says it is significant that three of Harvard's teaching hospitals--the Brigham, Beth-Israel, and the new Dana Center--have adopted the same protocol for treatment of Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymph tissue. But this does not mean a definitive cure, Rosenthal says; only a high probability of cure at certain stages in the cancer...
Coordination of the multitude of Harvard clinicians at the Dana Center will be difficult, Isselbacher says, especially as there may be some disputes over who "gets" certain patients for study. Obsession with a cure, however, Isselbacher indicates, is delusory, as no doctor's individual research is likely to produce the answer. Such obsession, Isselbacher says, is not the proper attitude with which to view an academic field that is so broad-based. Besides, Isselbacher says, "The natural history of the disease is such that, it isn't like pneumonia, that in just two weeks you can find out whether Drug...
Obsessions with cure, however, only encourage the creation of quack cures, Isselbacher says, and bootlegged nostrums from Mexico