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Widely covered by the press, the procedure prompted dozens of phone calls to the NCI from patients desperately seeking a cure. Rosenberg stresses, however, that his work is highly experimental. The treatment puts a new twist on classic vaccine strategy. "When you think of a vaccine, it's usually to prevent a disease," he explains. "Here we're actually treating an advanced cancer...
Balick walks tropical forests with shamans in Latin America as part of a study, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, designed to uncover plants useful in the treatment of AIDS and cancer. The 5,000 plants collected so far, says the NCI's Gordon Cragg, have yielded some promising chemicals. If any of them turn out to be useful as medicines, the country from which the plant came would get a cut of the profits...
...there is also bad news about breast cancer. The number of cases continues to soar. According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the U.S. incidence increased 32% between 1982 and 1987. Only lung cancer is rising faster. Cancer is the leading cause of death for women 35 to 50, and breast cancer is the most common malignancy in this age group. All in all, an American woman has a 1-in-10 chance of developing breast cancer over the course of her lifetime, and that risk keeps on rising...
...Ph.D. in fat," she explains. Her hope was that the pilot would lead to NIH funding of a 10-year effort with 24,000 women. No such luck. A competing proposal for a similar study that would cost $107 million was on the verge of being financed when an NCI advisory panel decided last month to put it on hold -- a crushing disappointment for many researchers...
...mouse screens were better in that respect. In any case, new agents discovered by the automated screening may require years of additional testing in the lab -- and then on animals -- before any newly discovered therapies can be tried on human cancer patients. "All it will take," says NCI adviser Korn, dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine, "is one smashing winner. Then everyone will say it was worth...