Word: lungingly
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...years. In return, Civella paid him $1,500 a month until Williams was elected Teamsters president in 1981. Although Williams said he did favors for Civella at the direction of his "superiors," including the late Teamsters Bosses Jimmy Hoffa and Frank Fitzsimmons, he described Civella, who died of lung cancer in 1983, as "a very personal friend." Civella, said Williams, "was a deep thinker. He assisted me in my career, and I provided some help...
They cautioned, however, that at least one more year of experiments and about 10 more patients would have to receive the treatment before they could claim success in fighting lung cancers. It could be longer, according to officials, before the treatment could be tried and applied to other forms of cancers...
According to the American Cancer Society, lung cancer is the leading form of cancer among men and one of the leading forms among women. Some 144,000 new cases are diagnosed annually...
...study, funded by a grant from the Upjohn Company, began by extracting a portion of live tumor in a patient suffering from adenocarcinoma, a type of lung cancer common to emphysema patients. The doctors mixed the removed tumor with a protein called Interleukin 2, which stimulates the growth of the lymphocytes normally present in the extracted tumor...
...Harvard doctors said that the disease-fighting lymphocytes, although a vital part of the body's general immune system, are often oriented to combat one specific type of disease. Therefore, they said, the extraction of lung cancer lymphocytes proved very effective in fighting lung cancer as well as bolstering the body's immunity system as a whole...