Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said that exposure to smaller quantities can increase the risk of lung cancer, but this occurs mainly in cases of asbestos workers who encounter much higher levels of the material than the Mower residents would...
Richard L. Kradin and James T. Kurnick, who are both associate professors of pathology at the Harvard Medical School, said yesterday that the three-year NCI grant will allow them to apply their method of treating lung tumors with Interleukin 2 to a wider pool of patients, including patients with kidney tumors...
Since March 1985, the researchers have been testing the technique on seven patients with advanced lung cancer, Kurnick said. The treatment reduced tumors in some of the patients...
...Nearly overlooked in the news reports was Rosenberg's warning of IL-2's side effects, which include internal bleeding and retention of fluid in the tissues. Indeed, the large doses of the substance required to supplement the LAK cells caused at least one test subject to die of lung failure. LAK cells, it turned out, are primitive weapons, difficult to direct at a single target. They are like a "rocket that just goes off," says Dr. Ellis Reinherz, of Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, as opposed to "one with a guidance system." Scientists had long known of cells...
...neon colors and yowling discharge of images has slackened little in 20 years. Like a shark silently threading a reef, the sleek body of the bomber passes through a succession of signs denoting the good life and ways of defending it; a bubble of air from an Aqua-Lung regulator mimics the burst of a nuclear cloud, over which is set an umbrella; the hole in a frosted ring cake suggests a missile silo; a chillingly winsome little blond muffin sits precociously under a hair dryer, whose gleaming cone evokes the nose of an ICBM...