Word: lymphoma
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...SYSTEM IS A POWERFUL DEfense against assaults by bacteria and viruses from outside the body, but now scientists may have found a way to turn it against a homegrown assailant: cancer. A research group at Stanford University has developed a vaccine that stimulates the body to fight B-cell lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system that strikes 20,000 Americans every year and is especially hard to treat. They did it by removing cancerous cells from nine patients and treating the cells to make them more irritating to the immune system. Then they were reinjected under the patients' skin...
...team of researchers from the medical school have developed a vaccine taken from the cells of patients with B-cell lymphoma, a disease of the immune system...
...treated for cancer are in the spotlight now as never before. For that they can thank Paul Tsongas, the first presidential candidate to run openly as a cancer survivor. Although Tsongas has been cancer-free for more than five years, the specter of his bout with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in the mid-1980s has continued to shadow his campaign, even more so since his candidacy has begun to enjoy some success. No sooner had he won the New Hampshire primary than a lead editorial in the New York Times said voters needed a "firmer fix" on whether his "dread...
...line of fire fighters, and the day he applied to join the Houston fire department was one of the happiest of his life. But though he passed every test, including the physical, he was rejected. Reason: four years earlier, Ritchie had cancer -- the same type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that struck Paul Tsongas. The department's guidelines, modeled after those of the U.S. military, barred anyone who had a history of cancer...
...Democrats, the choice was more complicated, and the results in a way more interesting. Former California Governor Jerry Brown, usually enveloped in an aura of indignation, did not profit from the prevailing anger. A different contrarian principle worked in favor of Paul Tsongas. The former Massachusetts Senator, survivor of lymphoma, preacher of no-nonsense, progrowth, probusiness ("You can't have employment and despise employers -- no goose, no golden eggs"), came away with 33% of the vote. His importance was symbolic as well as substantive: Tsongas possesses a power of glamourlessness, a nerdy, basset-hound anti-image that gives hope...