Word: heals
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...types have long been successfully studied in laboratory petri dishes. Now, with the help of research performed at a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital, doctors can remove skin cells from a patient, culture them to create a new sheet of skin, and graft them back onto the patient to heal wounds...
Fewkes, a skin oncologist, utilizes the technique in skin cancer and leg ulcer surgery. Removal of skin cancers often creates large holes in the epidermis, or outermost layer of skin, which must be filled in, she says. The treatment of leg ulcers, large skin wounds which do not heal, is based on skin replacement...
Once created, an autograft can be kept frozen and used to generate more sheets of skin whenever needed. For these patients, who may have a limited amount of skin from which to proceed with split skin grafting, autografting may be the only way to heal skin wounds...
...women facing the trials and terrors of breast cancer, the worst part of the ordeal -- worse even than the possibility of losing a breast -- is the sense that the nightmare is not over even after the stitches heal. Breast cancer strikes 1 out of 9 women in industrialized countries and recurs in a third of all patients within five years of their initial diagnosis and in more than half within 10 years...
...also possible to see Turner's global pursuits as an elaborate attempt to heal from the first two traumas of his life. When he was 20 and she was three years younger, his sister Mary Jane died of a severe form of lupus erythematosus, a disease that causes the body to make antibodies against its own tissues. Until he saw her degenerate during five horrible years, Turner had been a practicing Christian. At 17 he even planned to be a missionary. But the loss of his sister killed his faith in God. While Turner never recovered that faith...