Word: lethally
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Battling cancer with immune-system transplants is a straightforward--if searing--procedure. Used only with the most lethal cancers, it involves flooding the body with toxic chemotherapy drugs in an effort to overwhelm the malignancy. While the drugs do kill cancer cells, they also destroy most of the disease-fighting cells in the immune system. That's why doctors harvest marrow cells from the bones or stem cells from the bloodstream--both of which give rise to new immune cells--before they begin chemotherapy. When the treatment is done, these cells are reinfused into the body, in the hope that...
...statistically significant advantage for transplant therapy. The two studies that focused on metastatic disease showed no real advantage in terms of survival. One of those studies did show that metastatic patients who underwent transplants had longer remission periods before relapsing--no small thing for people facing a potentially lethal disease. Moreover, the patients in all five studies must be followed for several more years before the research can be considered complete. Nonetheless, concedes Dr. Edward Stadtmauer of the University of Pennsylvania, who headed one of the trials, "it's not clear that this treatment is a major benefit...
...launched each day during the first week of the gulf conflict by 2,700 warplanes. This week NATO proposes to try to close the gap. The tally still won't come close to the gulf numbers, but Pentagon sources say the air assault will be far more substantial--and lethal--than anything...
...order somethings non-lethal like juice, and what lands on your table is an iceberg in a cup with a shot of Sunny Delight...
Despite severed communications links, each SA-6 missile battery--known as "the three fingers of death" for its trio of missiles--remains lethal. The missiles can be targeted by sight, which means the electronic emissions that would betray their positions will occur only just before launch. The last U.S. warplane previously downed in combat--Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 over Bosnia in 1995--was brought down using the technique...