Word: treatment
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Doctors studying a common type of tumor at the Harvard-affiliated Dana Farber Cancer Institute have developed a treatment that has yielded encouraging preliminary results, according to reports published in today's New England Journal of Medicine...
...treatment for non-Hodgkins lymphoma involves taking bone marrow out of patients while they undergo chemotherapy and radiation, and then replacing the marrow after it is treated with a special antibody the researchers developed...
...patients treated in the Dana Farber study, 65 percent are now disease-free, with several of them out of treatment for as long as five years. The mortality rate in the study was less than 5 percent, far lower than the approximately 75 percent death rate of other types of treatment, said Dr. Lee M. Nadler, one of the 12 researchers...
Loury has taken critical stands againstaffirmative action and questioned the views ofnational civil rights leaders in numerous speechesand writings. He advocates what he calls a"self-help" philosophy for Blacks and argues thatpreferential treatment for minorities"stigmatizes" all successful Blacks...
NASA, however, remains sensitive about its treatment by the news media. The agency is trying to scotch an ad campaign sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists and the Advertising Council that features a picture of the Challenger explosion. Beneath the photograph are the words, "If the press didn't tell us, who would?" Protested NASA Public Affairs Director Shirley Green: "Any suggestion that the public would not have learned the reasons for the accident is totally inaccurate...