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...recently as last month she told a friend that things were going well: "I'm almost glad it happened because it's given me a second life. I laugh and enjoy things so much more." However, the cancer had spread to her brain and her liver from her lymph nodes. On Wednesday, after deciding that further medical treatment would be fruitless, she went home. She died the evening after. This week she is to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery beside her husband and her son Patrick...
This news comes from the University of California at San Francisco, where researchers studied AIDS patients with lymphoma, a cancer in which lymph cells grow wildly. The scientists found that HIV had invaded the cells and, in some instances, activated cancer-causing genes that are normally dormant...
...Francisco study, Dr. Michael McGrath and Dr. Bruce Shiramizu examined tissue from more than two dozen AIDS patients who suffered from lymphoma. In the majority of cases, they found what any AIDS researcher would expect. After infecting the lymph system, HIV uses its genetic material, RNA, as a template to produce viral DNA, which randomly incorporates itself into the cell's DNA. But in a few cases, the viral strands zeroed in on a particular stretch of cell DNA. When the investigators looked more closely, they discovered what is known as an oncogene nearby. Responsible for normal growth during development...
...have been 40 to 45 years old, an advanced age for her society. But he expected to find little else remarkable because the body was so poorly preserved. To his surprise, when he opened the chest, he found a lump on the lung and another two in the lymph nodes -- a common sign of TB infection...
...much more aware," he says. "Like if Iget a bump or when my lymph nodes get swollen whenI get a cold, I get really nervous...