Word: stage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extracurricular activities at Harvard: "I was in The Beggar's Opera with my father when I was four or five," she says. She says she never got to see the end of the show because her mother always whisked her off to bed after her brief appearance on stage...
...group member even suggested that the new organization stage a weekly demonstration at Widener or the Science Center, when all group members would stand quietly and simply raise their hands...
...researchers hope, Shakespeare fans will know more about the original stage...
...drugs: 5- fluorouracil, a proven anticancer agent, and levamisole, a medication commonly used by veterinarians to clear worms from the intestines of animals. Included in the studies were some 1,700 cancer patients, most of whom had been operated on for Dukes' C colon cancer. In this stage of the cancer, the tumor has penetrated the bowel wall but has not spread to the rest of the body. The results of the first study, which appeared in this month's Journal of Clinical Oncology, showed that 49% of patients receiving the treatment were still alive after five years, in contrast...
...researchers caution, however, that the drugs are not effective for patients with more severe colon cancer, in which the malignancy has already spread throughout the body. Nor have studies shown a benefit for those patients whose cancers were detected at an early stage. Still, Dr. Michael Friedman of the National Cancer Institute called this first success for drug therapy against colon cancer a "terrific intellectual breakthrough." The institute has alerted 35,000 cancer doctors across the country. And some experts are hopeful that the findings will lead to similar therapies for other cancers...