Word: sarcoma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...capillaries together. Indeed, one of the patients in their safety study exceeded all expectations when two of the tumors in his abdomen shrank 70%. "I've been on the drug now for over a year," says Barry Riccio, a college professor from Illinois who is suffering from a rare sarcoma. "I have more energy than I did just nine months ago, and I've gained back a lot of weight...
Other substances in the works may be further from the market, but they are in some ways even more exciting. Several of them take aim at a growth-signaling protein made by a gene called RAS (for rat sarcoma, the cancer in which it was first discovered). In about 30% of cancers, the RAS protein is stuck in an "on" position, mindlessly ordering the cell to divide again and again. It plays a role in 90% of pancreatic cancers, 50% of colon cancers and 25% of lung cancers. Dr. Edward Scolnick discovered the RAS gene in rats while working...
...Narayan was diagnosed with cancer, arare sarcoma in his sinuses. It was then that theyoung volunteer, by that time serving on his RedCross chapter's board of directors, was selectedas the keynote speaker at the organization'snational convention...
...hormone derived from the urine of pregnant women may lead to a promising new treatment for KAPOSI'S SARCOMA, a type of skin cancer that often strikes people with aids. In a small clinical trial, injections with the compound completely cleared the lesions in 10 of 12 patients...
...studies suggest that Kaposi's sarcoma, which commonly afflicts aids patients, is caused by a sexually transmitted HERPES VIRUS known as herpes 8. If confirmed, doctors may be able to block the virus before the cancer ever takes hold...