Word: lymph
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...Whatever strength I brought to this campaign was in my head, not my lymph nodes...
...passage of microscopic silicone particles through the envelope is considered the most probable cause of these and other implant-related health problems. These particles lodge in the surrounding breast tissue and in the lymph nodes, from which they are passed throughout the rest of the body...
...some cases, especially in poorer-quality implants manufactured between 1975 and 1985, the sacs rupture, spilling their contents into the body. The immune system's attempt to wall off this foreign chemical can cause inflammation and severe chest pain. Worse, the silicone can migrate to the lungs, liver and lymph nodes...
...second stage of the treatment, two weeks from now, doctors plan to remove white blood cells from the injection sites and nearby lymph nodes, grow them in a lab and transfuse them into the patients. Studies suggest that such cells will have developed a strong antitumor activity...
...That's very dangerous," Folkman says. "That's when the tumor can grow exponentially." Even more importantly, he says, the newly-recruited blood vessels allow the tumor to send out offshoots known as metastases, which travel through the circulatory system until they lodge in vital organs such as lymph nodes, the lungs, brain or sexual organs...