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...forces to destroy malignant cells. Last week scientists at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., revealed some of the most promising results to date in the use of this new category called immunotherapy. In an unusual "special report," published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Steven Rosenberg and his NCI colleagues described a complex technique that enables doctors to turn some of a patient's own white blood cells into "killer cells" that attack tumors...
...news prompted tabloid headlines proclaiming CANCER BREAKTHROUGH and led desperate patients around the country to deluge the NCI with requests for the new "cure." Such a reaction is clearly premature, warned Rosenberg (who was a spokesman for the team that treated President Reagan's colon cancer). "I am really anxious that this be kept in perspective," he said. "This is a promising first step in a new approach to use the body's own immune system against cancer. It is certainly not a cancer cure...
...substance called interleukin-2 (IL-2), one of a variety of chemical messengers called lymphokines that help control the activities of the immune system. Studies have shown that IL-2 is capable of transforming certain white blood cells into powerful, anticancer killer cells. Using an elaborate blood-separating apparatus, Rosenberg and his team withdrew white cells from each patient and treated them with IL-2. After incubating for three or four days, the activated cells were injected back into the patient, along with more IL-2, and the "killers" went to work...
...senseless murder of any person is a tragedy, but the loss of "someone who made so much meaningful music that meant so much to so many people," is especially to be mourned, said Michael E. Rosenberg '85, former station manager of WHRB...
...most special feeling is when the kids get off the bus and come into Kirkland House and they recognize you," Rosenberg says...