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Cool off at the the National Kidney Foundation of Massachusetts' Ice Cream Extravaganza this Sunday at the Cambridge Ballroom in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Cambridge. From 1 to 4 p.m. you can make a $10 donation for kidney research and sample as many as 10 flavors from gourmet ice cream vendors from around the nation. An additional $5 donation gets you 10 more servings. Call 326-7225 or 1-800-542-4001 for more info...
...course, it probably doesn't matter. "To have fun, we have to break the law," says Atlanta's Don Hillsman. "Skaters don't like rules." What they do like, when something like the Fallbrook ramp isn't right handy, is swimming pools: big, high-sided, kidney-shape swimming pools -- drained, naturally, to allow for the most radical coasting up and down the sloping concrete. Skaters aren't much on giving out awards, but there is one sure way to reckon the most bio (for bionic, meaning best) skater in the neighborhood: count the trespassing tickets received for skating empty pools...
Interleukin-2 has shown promising results in treating advanced skin and kidney cancers. In fact, says Gutterman, there appears to be "tremendous synergy" between alpha interferon and IL-2 in attacking cancer cells. While IL-2 works to make the killer cells more potent, he explains, they "have to recognize something unique on the surface of the cancer cell in order to kill it." That something is an antigen, and interferon seems to make it more "visible" to the killer cells...
Physicians began testing the drug on humans in 1978. The results were dramatic. Both rejection and infection continued to be problems, but survival rates one year after transplantation rose from 32% to 70% for liver patients and from 54% to 77% for kidney patients. "By early 1980," recalls Thomas Starzl of the University of Pittsburgh, a leading transplant surgeon, "we had a sense that there was a tremendous change in outlook in both kidneys and livers, and that enthusiasm quickly spread to the heart." Cyclosporine is highly toxic, however, and researchers have begun to look for alternatives. Ideally, they foresee...
...ones. But the majority reap no benefit at all. Given the expense and the risks, the treatment has come in for some sharp criticism. Even so, University of Pennsylvania Oncologist Kevin Fox notes that IL-2 therapy is the only treatment that works at all on advanced melanoma and kidney cancer. Admits Rosenberg: "It's a treatment in its infancy...