Word: stenzel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report met with a mixture of optimism and caution in the medical community. "A 50% tumor regression is very good," observed Dr. Kurt Stenzel of the Rogosin Institute at New York Hospital, who is also working with IL-2. "But you still want more," he said. "You want it to go away and never come back." Doctors, including Rosenberg, expressed concern about the treatment's side effects. For most of the patients in the NCI experiment, the treatment caused serious fluid retention, with up to 20 lbs. of water accumulating in the lungs, liver, kidneys and elsewhere in the body...
...these other substances. "It may be that for each type of cancer, you need a different combination," suggests Dr. Jordan Gutterman, of Houston's M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute. IL-2 may also prove useful in combination with standard chemotherapy or as a follow-up to surgery. Stenzel theorized that after such traditional treatments, IL-2 could "gear up the patient's own cells to scavenge any remaining tumor cells...
...country coroner's report said the student. Charles M. Stenzel, had died of an alcohol overdose. His mother, Erleen Stevens, had sought a total of $64 million in compensation. The settlement was reportedly about...