Word: immunologyâ
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...Brown's treatment is one of the most dramatic applications of the rapidly expanding science of self-immunology???the study of the body's natural defenses against disease. That science is one of the most promising weapons yet developed by doctors in their long fight against cancer, which this year alone will afflict an estimated 650,000 Americans and kill more than 350,000. The older techniques?surgery, radiation and chemotherapy (drug treatments)?have been used successfully in bringing some cancers under control. But surgery usually results in unsightly and handicapping mutilation, radiation can destroy healthy as well...
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