Word: lymph
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paul Tsongas, 42, earnest, fiscally moderate Democratic Senator from Massachusetts; with lymph-node cancer; in Boston. Tsongas said that because of his ailment he would not seek a second term in November. Tsongas upset liberals in 1979 by endorsing a federal bailout for Chrysler. Said he: "What I've done is show you can be a liberal Democrat and still care about economics, that profit is not a dirty word...
Veronesi, who heads Milan's respected National Cancer Institute, bases his conclusion on the treatment and follow-up of 700 Italian patients. Half were treated with a mastectomy and half with a quadrectomy, plus radiation if the malignancy extended to lymph nodes under the arm. All of the women in the study had a very early stage of breast cancer, with tumors measuring less than three-quarters of an inch in diameter. A decade after treatment, 96% of the women in both groups were alive and apparently healthy. Significantly, the study defied the longstanding dictum that anything short...
...best candidates for a lumpectomy are women with small tumors that have not yet spread. Most doctors also prescribe additional treatment, with radiation, as a precaution against tumor recurrence. For women with a small degree of spreading (measured by counting the number of malignant lymph nodes), radiation treatment is strongly recommended. Women with more extensive spreading may also be candidates for a lumpectomy, but for these patients chemotherapy might be used as an added safeguard. According to Veronesi's colleague, Dr. Gianni Bonadonna, a leading authority on chemotherapy, there is really only one reason for a complete mastectomy: when...
Whatever theory may prove to be correct, the research has provided inspiration for fresh studies by epidemiologists. The levels of Tcells, the presence of HTLV and CMV viruses, and the swelling of lymph glands are regarded as possible "markers" that indicate the early stages of AIDS. At the New York Blood Center, Dr. Cladd Stevens and Friedman-Kien are examining the blood of homosexuals who do not have AIDS to see what factor might be unique to those who do develop the syndrome. By chance they have thousands of samples of blood, 1,500 of them from homosexuals now being...
...efforts to isolate an AIDS bug have come to nothing. The CDC has cultured specimens from lymph nodes, urine, feces and blood of AIDS victims and then inoculated them into specially bred marmosets, at a cost of $25,000 for testing on each animal. Unfortunately, as Curran points out, "it is not known whether there is a transmissible agent, whether the patients we're studying harbor it, which body secretion may contain it, and whether marmosets are an appropriate species...