Word: lymphomas
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...being a guinea pig," says Doug Dorner, 35. He and his wife Nancy both work in health care. "We're not afraid of technology," he says. Dorner has known since he was 16 that he would never be able to have children the old-fashioned way. A battle with lymphoma left him sterile, so when he and Nancy started thinking of having children, he began following the scientific developments in cloning more closely. The more he read, the more excited he got. "Technology saved my life when I was 16," he says, but at the cost of his fertility...
...tumor cell without affecting surrounding tissue. IDEC Pharmaceuticals in San Diego has just completed final rounds of testing on Zevalin, an antibody that is hooked to the radioactive isotope yttrium-90. Last month IDEC reported that the tumors in about one-third of 73 late-stage non-Hodgkins lymphoma patients were undetectable after being treated with Zevalin...
...which kill the tumor cell without affecting surrounding tissue. IDEC Pharmaceuticals, in San Diego, just completed final rounds of testing Zevalin, an antibody that is hooked to the radioactive isotope, yttrium-90. Last month, IDEC reported that the tumors in about one third of 73 late-stage non-Hodgkins lymphoma patients were undetectable after being treated with Zevalin...
...life. After he was shot by John Hinckley Jr. in 1981, Ronald Reagan was closer to death, and slower to recover, than anyone admitted at the time. And in 1992, when Paul Tsongas was a Democratic presidential candidate, he and his doctors said he was free of the lymphoma that led to his 1986 bone-marrow transplant. He died of the disease...
...full time, he had a circle of close friends that included a couple of nurses, one of them a bereavement counselor; an ethicist who specialized in medical issues; several doctors; and a former patient, Steve Kalafer, who years earlier had been treated by Frimmer for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, now in remission...