Word: rhabdomyosarcoma
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...Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, and Gardner, of the U.S.C. School of Medicine, led the California team participating in the experiments. The National Cancer Institute also took part. The West Coast phase started in 1968 with the study of tissue from a seven-year-old girl suffering from rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare, generally fatal cancer that attacks the body's voluntary muscles. Though the child died, the doctors did manage to take a sample of her tissue and keep it growing in culture. Suspecting that these cancer cells contained viruses, the researchers tried to coax them out of the tissue...
...huge Clinical Center (TIME, July 20, 1953), . lists eight forms of the disease that can often be set back by drugs, sometimes for as long as two or three years. These are: acute leukemia in children, chronic lymphocytic and myeloid leukemia in adults, Hodgkin's disease, rhabdomyosarcoma (a rare muscle cancer), Wilms's tumor (in the kidney, present at birth), cancer of the adrenal glands, and choriocarcinoma (mainly in women, and arising from placental material). The list includes four major types of cancer-leukemia, lymphoma. sarcoma and carcinoma. This offers some hope that drugs effective against...
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