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...systems have not been weakened by radiation treatment or chemotherapy. Other potential uses for interferon: heading off the recurrence of tumors after they have been surgically removed, and preventing precancerous conditions like cervical dysplasia from progressing into full-blown cancers. But much more testing lies ahead, says Dr. Ronald Herberman, chief of biological therapeutics at the National Cancer Institute, and the world will have to wait a bit longer to see what interferon can do. In the encouraging results so far, he says, "we may be seeing just the tip of the iceberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What's Become of Interferon? | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

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