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...form of this procedure, doctors remove from the patient's bone marrow a supply of stem cells--the body's blood-making factories--and put them aside for safekeeping. Then they use powerful doses of radiation and chemotherapy to destroy all the cancer cells in the blood--in the process, destroying the healthy blood cells as well. Finally, they try to rebuild the blood supply from scratch by reinfusing the patient with the original stem cells...
...June 17, 1996, with Murdock set up on the fifth floor of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, the trial began. About four hours later, the patient went home, a catheter in his chest, to await the verdict. Tarnowski called that night to tell him that the purging had finally worked. Then began some two months of grueling radiation, chemotherapy and the new, improved bone-marrow transplant...
...lost the latest round in its patent fight with competitors in federal court in April, and in a month a judge could issue a ruling preventing CellPro from selling its product to new customers. "This is personal now," said Murdock. "I'm not just a CEO. I'm a patient. It would be a crime against humanity if a business dispute kept us from getting this procedure to other patients...
...something more was involved than Nuland's experience and surgical skill. The patient survived, he believes, because of her will to live. This instinct, the product of eons of evolution, is evidence to the author that humans are greater than the sum of their 75 trillion constituent parts, their cells. Some readers will see the miracle of mankind as proof that a Creator exists. Nuland does not. His surrogate for spiritual piety is awe and wonder at the mystery of the human spirit and the marvelous economy of the physiology that embodies...
Rafael Rios has been luckier than many. He kicked his habit in one lengthy struggle that included four months of in-patient treatment at a residential facility and a year of daily outpatient sessions. During that time, Rios checked into 12-step meetings continually, sometimes attending three a day. As those who deal with alcoholics and drug addicts know, such exertions of will power and courage are more common than most people suspect. They are the best reason yet to start treating addiction as the medical and public health crisis it really...