Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cells with the patients' responses to the same drugs. In all but one case, the effects matched. If the drug prevented cancer cells from growing in the culture, it also killed them in the patient. If the drug had no effect in the petri dish, it did not help the patient. The team also found that while patients might have the same type of cancer, their cells in culture showed markedly different responses to the same drug. Sometimes sensitivity to a drug varied by a factor...
...main value of the laboratory test, says Salmon, is that it can help the physician plan individual courses of treatment. For example, only 20% of people with cancer of the colon or rectum respond to the drug fluorouracil; the other 80% suffer needlessly from the drug's toxic effects. The new technique may have another benefit: it could be used to evaluate new anticancer drugs without endangering cancer patients...
That's why we look to the Summer School for help. Each year, we invite interested students to help us do the reporting and take the pictures that keep Cambridge's Only Breakfast Table Bi-Weekly on the newsstands...
...need any journalistic experience-although we're always about a newspaper--and you don't have to be a full-time Harvard student. We need many staff reporters, from different backgrounds, to help us cover events at the University and in the Cambridge-Boston area...
Summer volunteers help write the stories that actually appear in the paper, and students who attend Harvard year-round may try out for positions on the staff. Although we handle the editing, lay-out and production chores, there's plenty to do for experienced newswriters, as well as for novices interested in learning the business...