Word: forlong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the initial success, the researchers remain extremely cautious. Though only one patient experienced mild and transient nausea and vomiting, doctors worry about administering a toxic anticancer drug forlong periods. Another concern: What other genes are being altered? A fear is that the drug approach may inadvertently switch on recently discovered cancer genes that apparently lie dormant in most people. Nonetheless, noted Hematologist Edward Benz of Yale University School of Medicine, who wrote an accompanying editorial in the NEJM, "this research represents a major new step in treating disease and demonstrates beyond doubt that genetic manipulation has come...
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