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Schooley said the disease has been thought so far to attack only the lymph system. Now, symptoms like infected cells in the spinal fluid, pains in limbs, and meninigits, an inflammation of the lining of the brain, could be indications of AIDS, he said...
...cases of breast cancer diagnosed annually in the U.S., as many as 90,000 occur in women who are postmenopausal or over 50. In roughly half of these older women, the malignant cells have spread to nearby lymph nodes; some 30% die of recurring cancer within five years after surgery. That grim toll may soon be reduced. A National Institutes of Health advisory panel last week recommended the postsurgery use of a drug called tamoxifen in most of these cases, saying that it could cut the death rate...
...cure-all. The NIH panel reported that it is ineffective against breast-cancer cells that are not estrogen dependent and seems to have little effect in premenopausal women, who respond best to a combination of chemotherapy drugs. The panel stressed that most older breast- cancer victims whose lymph nodes have not been invaded by malignant cells need neither tamoxifen nor chemotherapy after surgery, but urged that they have frequent checkups...
...about 1 1/2 in.) in diameter. The participants agreed to be assigned randomly to three different treatment groups. About one- third underwent a mastectomy, one-third had a lumpectomy, and another third received radiation treatment in addition to a lumpectomy. The women in all three groups had their underarm lymph nodes removed and examined for signs of malignancy; if the nodes were cancerous, the patients were given chemotherapy following surgery...
...French team is headed by Dr. Luc Montagnier of the renowned Pasteur Institute. In interviews with the U.S. press, Montagnier described a virus he and his colleagues had found in the blood of patients with the swollen lymph nodes and flu-like symptoms that characterize the early stage of AIDS. Like Gallo, the Pasteur researchers reportedly found signs of the virus in 80% to 90% of blood samples from AIDS patients. Both research groups affirm that the bugs they have found closely resemble the cancer-causing virus discovered by Gallo four years ago. The two groups suspect they have found...