Word: sarcoma
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Scientists have grown lab samples and photographed for the first time the virus believed to cause Kaposi's sarcoma, a disease found in AIDS patients. The research may lead to a blood test for the virus...
...years, however, doctors have come to realize that the T-cell number doesn't really tell them how sick a person is. Patients with fewer than 200 helper T cells sometimes seem quite healthy, while others with a higher count are already suffering from opportunistic infections, like Kaposi's sarcoma or pneumocystis pneumonia...
...world's leading AIDS researchers, Dr. Robert Gallo, is the center of a debate raging in two of America's most prestigious scientific journals. Gallo, previously involved in a controversy over the discovery of the AIDS virus, announced in the journal Science a possible treatment for Kaposi's sarcoma, a skin cancer often afflicting AIDS patients. But researchers at the University of Arizona at Tucson, writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, disputed the findings and said Science had rejected their challenge of Gallo's work...
...also confronted her audience with "the faceof AIDS," asking one follower to take off hisshirt and display his receding Kaposi's sarcoma...
Repligen has been working on the drug since 1987, said Ramesh Ratan, senior vice president of the firm. The first human clinical trials, or phase one, began on AIDS patients afflicted with Kaposi's sarcoma--a type of skin cancer--in late June...