Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dawn Euton had cancer a long time ago -- 27 years ago, to be exact. As a four-year-old she was treated for Wilms' tumor, a malignancy of the kidney. Though the disease never returned, the fear and stigma have not gone away. In high school her classmates acted as if they were scared to be near her. She was rejected every time she applied for medical insurance -- even to cover the cost of bearing a child. And vivid memories of the childhood terror still flood back whenever she goes for a checkup and sees the same woman...
...fund raiser for Troy State University in Montgomery.)) And I'm in a lot of pain all the time. I wasn't in much pain when I was Governor, because I was younger and stronger. I'm older and weaker now. I just got over a bad kidney infection...
...finally got rid of it. That's what we die with, kidney failure. So if another big bug hits me again like that, it may be the last...
...without new revelations of environmental, physical and even psychological factors that are supposedly linked to an increased risk of heart attack. Among the suspected culprits: feeling hostile or stressed; drinking too much coffee; living with a smoker; being exposed to car exhaust; having high levels of the kidney protein renin; being bald; and having a body shape that puts excess weight around the belly rather than the hips and thighs...
Rosenberg and his team have permission from the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration to treat 15 people with TNF-gene- altered cells, including patients with advanced kidney or colon cancer. Another 15 individuals with the same diseases may receive injections of tumor cells that have been genetically altered to produce interleukin-2 -- a protein that stimulates tumor-fighting lymphocytes -- instead of TNF. All the patients have failed to respond to standard therapy...