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...National Cancer Institute (NCI) last week awarded two Harvard doctors $1.2 million to expand their clinical tests of a promising new drug treatment for cancer victims...
Richard L. Kradin and James T. Kurnick, who are both associate professors of pathology at the Harvard Medical School, said yesterday that the three-year NCI grant will allow them to apply their method of treating lung tumors with Interleukin 2 to a wider pool of patients, including patients with kidney tumors...
...NCI grant will enable the researchers to hire a nurse to help administer the treatment and also to reimburse colleagues who have donated time to the study, Kurnick said...
...first synthesized in 1964 by Jerome Horwitz of the Michigan Cancer Foundation as a possible anticancer drug. But it proved ineffective against tumors and was largely forgotten until 1984, after Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute in Paris independently isolated the AIDS virus...
...request of Burroughs Wellcome, Samuel Broder and his colleagues at NCI and other institutions tested AZT in late 1984 and early 1985 on AIDS- infected human cells in the test tube and found that it seemed to interfere with viral reproduction. Subsequently, they began testing the drug on 19 AIDS and ARC victims, and early this year reported in the British journal Lancet that the subjects had shown remarkable improvement. There was, however, at least one troublesome side effect: a reduction in their blood-cell counts. It was as a result of this early work that Burroughs Wellcome requested...