Word: lymphomas
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...virus, a member of the herpes family that is carried by an estimated 90% of American adults. Researchers speculate that stress, an immune-system deficiency or even environmental toxins could activate EBV, which is known to cause most cases of infectious mononucleosis and has been linked to Burkitt's lymphoma...
...treatment for non-Hodgkins lymphoma involves taking bone marrow out of patients while they undergo chemotherapy and radiation, and then replacing the marrow after it is treated with a special antibody the researchers developed...
...Lymphoma is the seventh most common cause of death from cancer in the United States, according to medical publications. Non-Hodgkins lymphoma, the subject of the Harvard study, is the most common tumor of humans between the ages of 20 and 40, and there are more than 25,000 new cases of it every year, Nadler said...
...said one of the most important aspects of the new treatment was that it could be applied in the future to patients with recently-diagnosed cases of the lymphoma. Usually lymphoma treatments using bone marrow transplants have been applied only to patients who have experienced a relapse of the disease...
...most important thing is not the present success for relapse patients," but rather that marrow treatment might now be legitimately used in "primary treatment of non-Hodgkins lymphoma," Nadler said...