Word: sarcoma
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That marked the second victory this year: in February the VA awarded similar payments to vets with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and soft-tissue sarcoma, two forms of cancer. But the government continues to reject claims that Agent Orange causes lung cancer, and veterans argue that the VA imposes so many restrictions that few survivors will actually benefit...
...Atlanta surgeon William Logan Jr. and pathologist Kenneth Alonso had found a promising new treatment for AIDS patients, hopes soared, lights flashed, and a media circus rolled into town. % TV cameras descended on the operating room to record the miraculous recovery of a patient with AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma, whom the doctors had treated by heating his blood to kill the AIDS virus...
Last week the hope came crashing to the ground. After studying the cases, federal investigators declared the treatment useless and recommended against further human experimentation. They attributed one patient's remarkable recovery to misdiagnosis: he did not have Kaposi's sarcoma to begin with. Dr. Alonso called the report "absurd," and plans to continue his study, possibly in Latin America or Europe...
...work done by Logan, a retired heart surgeon, and Alonso, a professor of pathology at Atlanta's Morehouse Medical School, started as an effort to treat Kaposi's sarcoma, a cancer common in AIDS patients that produces severe skin lesions. The doctors thought that heating a patient's blood might combat the cancer and possibly even kill the AIDS virus. During the procedure, called hyperthermia, blood is drawn from a vein in the groin, heated in a water bath and continuously recirculated into the body. In little more than an hour, the body's temperature reaches 108 degrees...
...with those in the ) unexposed population. But when the investigators tried to do this, says Dr. Hoffman, they could not reliably identify the soldiers who had received the highest doses. So instead the researchers adopted a more indirect approach, examining the incidence of six different cancers, including soft-tissue sarcoma and a kind of liver malignancy, that had been tentatively linked to herbicide exposure. Since the CDC settled for an indirect study, many veterans believe the results are of questionable value...