Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said one of the most important aspects of the new treatment was that it could be applied in the future to patients with recently-diagnosed cases of the lymphoma. Usually lymphoma treatments using bone marrow transplants have been applied only to patients who have experienced a relapse of the disease...
...most important thing is not the present success for relapse patients," but rather that marrow treatment might now be legitimately used in "primary treatment of non-Hodgkins lymphoma," Nadler said...
...Dana Farber study has a high survival rate in part because of the methods the researchers used to select the patients treated with the new treatment. "Selecting the patients leads to a very low mortality rate and very high success rate," Nadler said...
...treatment the doctors used, the patient is first given chemotherapy, in order to lessen the number of the tumor cells. Next, the doctors removed one-fifth of the patient's bone marrow through needles...
...typical for this campus," says Carol A. Southard, head nurse at the University of Chicago student health service. Turco says that while anti-gay sentiment is not particularly visible at Dartmouth, "it's always in the background." Vaughn says, "Many students with AIDS [at Berkeley] go elsewhere for treatment for fear of being ostracized...