Word: hodgkins
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...learned over the years that cancer cells are studded with an unusually large number of receptacles that compounds essential for survival, including growth factors, can plug into and fuel the cells' growth. Rituximab is a monoclonal antibody, a molecule specifically engineered to fit into the receptacles on non-Hodgkin's lymphoma cells and, in this case, single out the cancer cell for destruction by the immune system. Back in the early 1980s, monoclonal antibodies were hyped in the media as "magic bullets" that would wipe out cancer...
...return in December from three years of retirement was impressive. His performance since has been downright inhuman. Still, I couldn't help but feel a bit uncomfortable when they lowered his No. 66 from the rafters. His first retirement capped a brilliant career, including a storybook comeback from Hodgkin's disease. Lemieux's reappearance, though pleasant, seems to detract from the glory of his initial ride into the sunset...
...Super Mario" was diagnosed with a rare form of Hodgkin's disease, causing him to miss a great part of the season because of radiation therapy. Against all odds, Lemieux managed to battle back from the cancer and lead the league in scoring...
...care for him full time, he had a circle of close friends that included a couple of nurses, one of them a bereavement counselor; an ethicist who specialized in medical issues; several doctors; and a former patient, Steve Kalafer, who years earlier had been treated by Frimmer for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, now in remission...
...years now, "smart" drugs have been the hottest trend in cancer treatment. They are designed to zero in on the proteins that nurture tumor cells. In the past year alone, the FDA has approved three such drugs (for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, breast cancer and leukemia). And more are in the pipeline, because scientists are becoming increasingly skilled at designing drugs that target specific, critical molecular processes that tumor cells need to survive. Herceptin, for example, takes advantage of the fact that most breast-cancer cells overproduce a certain growth-factor protein; the drug preferentially seeks out tumor cells...