Word: prolongers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...behavior of the cancer cell and revealed its innermost secrets. Now the insights gleaned from basic research are being translated into novel approaches to cancer therapy. It still looks difficult to eradicate malignant cells, but scientists are exploring ways to tame them, to make them behave and thus greatly prolong the lives of people with the disease. The new therapies carry the promise of being not only more effective than the current slash-and- burn strategy but also much gentler to the patients who must endure the treatment. Exclaims Dr. Dennis Slamon, a UCLA cancer specialist: "This is the most...
...several compounds that interfere with angiogenesis. One such compound comes from a fungus that was accidentally discovered in 1989 when it contaminated cultures of endothelial cells in Judah Folkman's Harvard laboratory, dramatically curtailing their growth. This drug, says Folkman, is aimed not at curing cancer but at prolonging the period of time colonies of tumor cellsmissed by conventional therapy remain in place without spreading. "Suppose we prolong this period of dormancy for 10 years, and then another 10 years," muses Folkman. "Why, now we're beginning to compete with the normal life span...
...study of 2,300 patients showed that giving a shot of magnesium sulfate within three hours of a heart attack may prolong a person's life by a few years. The timing is critical, however, as there was no beneficial effect in those cases where doctors waited eight hours or more to administer the drug...
...Will higher rates kill the recovery? On the contrary, says Greenspan, they will prolong it. Small increases now will prevent inflation without hurting what increasingly looks to be a sturdy economy. Holding off would allow inflation to blossom eventually and force much bigger interest-rate increases that really would stop growth. But others contend that low rates are the biggest reason why a disappointingly slow recovery has finally quickened into a promising advance. Raising borrowing costs now, they fear, will choke off the budding boom, in part by making purchases of such things as houses and cars harder to finance...
...under Slobodan Milosevic an the scores of independent partisans to take notice. Unlike the North Vietnamese, the Serbs have no huge superpower to back up the violence the perpetrate. Serbs, Croats and Muslims will only be moved by the feeling that the world stands against any side that might prolong the conflict...