Word: thiotepa
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...improved by the fact that his doctors had been on the lookout for cancer ever since they had found and removed several pinhead-size nonmalignant growths in his bladder in 1968. Five years later, they discovered some new, possibly cancerous tissue, which was promptly treated with the anticancer drug thiotepa and sessions of X-ray therapy that took five minutes a day for five weeks. ("The worst experience in my life," Humphrey recalls.) The therapy worked and the Senator was found cancer-free for three years, but a recent examination at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda for symptoms...
...treating cancer of the breast, thiotepa has proved to be a useful ally of surgery. Said Dr. Ravdin: "Twenty percent more women did not have their cancer reoccur" when the drug was used with surgery...
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