Word: curing
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That the patients were only laboratory mice did not detract from the results: 100% cured of colon cancer that had spread to the liver, 50% cured of colon cancer spread to the lungs. These are remarkable cure rates for malignancies that are virtual death sentences for both mice and people. The encouraging results were announced last week by a researcher of near celebrity status, Dr. Steven Rosenberg of the National Cancer Institute. It was Rosenberg who, as spokesman for the team of doctors performing colon surgery on Ronald Reagan, shocked the nation last year by announcing on television, "The President...
...done in the past, Rosenberg went out of his way to avoid raising any false hopes of a quick cancer cure for humans. "This has all been done with mice," he stressed. "There are things that work in mice that do not work in people." Still, some of the results published last week in the journal Science were compelling. For example, mice subjected to the new treatment proved to be immune to malignancies seeded by cells from the original tumor. And the NCI team has already isolated the same kind of powerful cancer-fighting cell in humans. "It's potentially...
...ended the first drug crisis in the U.S. In less than a generation, public attitudes had been transformed. Once widely regarded as a harmless cure-all, cocaine "had become in the American mind the most hated, feared and loathed drug," says Dr. David Musto of Yale, a leading authority on the history of drugs and society...
...striking symbolism of their company's bankruptcy filing. Here was the clan that embodied all that was bold, brash and rich about the American oil patch. Yet today, like many a lone Texas wildcatter, the Hunt brothers are hurting -- and not even the hugest gusher can provide a cure...
...could be done without infringing on the rights of the individual, then it might work," says Miami Dolphins Quarterback Dan Marino. "But I think there has to be a lot more research done in this area before we can come out and say | random mandatory drug testing is the cure." Eugene ("Mercury") Morris, a former star running back with the Miami Dolphins who was recently released from prison after serving three years on a drug conviction, says singling out athletes for drug tests is an unfair double standard. "I'd be more concerned about a coked-up surgeon operating...