Word: lymphomas
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...over the years that cancer cells are studded with an unusually large number of receptacles that compounds essential for survival, including growth factors, can plug into and fuel the cells' growth. Rituximab is a monoclonal antibody, a molecule specifically engineered to fit into the receptacles on non-Hodgkin's lymphoma cells and, in this case, single out the cancer cell for destruction by the immune system. Back in the early 1980s, monoclonal antibodies were hyped in the media as "magic bullets" that would wipe out cancer...
Joey Ramone passed away last Sunday from complications from lymphoma. As lead singer of the Ramones, he was a crucial part of the New York punk scene and part-inventor of lots of things punk, most notably the stripping of pop to its rawest elements: guitars, drums and four chords. And for all that we here at the Arts section salute him. Check out “I Wanna Be Sedated” or “Blitzkrieg Bop” —fast, cheap and out of control, these are songs that clock in and out in under...
...Nite. "This is my comeback," says T, 48. "I'm here to entertain the people like no one else can. But you have to have a setback in order to have a comeback." T's setback came in 1995, when he was diagnosed with, no kidding, T-cell lymphoma. After initially keeping the disease a secret, the man baptized Lawrence Tureaud decided to confront cancer head on. "I said to myself, 'T, you used to kick ass in the 'hood. You joined the Army so you could kick butt. And you scared of this?' I decided to bring cancer...
DIED. WARNER LEROY, 65, New York City restaurateur and Warner Bros. scion whose fantasy-land establishments drew the rich and famous; of lymphoma; in New York. Among his lavishly designed eateries were Maxwell's Plum, Tavern on the Green and the revamped Russian Tea Room...
...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...