Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tell their stockholders that they will get their money back. But in our case it's a question of whether our people will have enough to eat. I will impress upon the banks that this is a different kind of government from that of Marcos, and we expect different treatment...
Still more debate centers around safety concerns. Adversaries contend that the treatment changes the chemical composition of food and can create carcinogens, such as benzene, formaldehyde and substances called unique radiolytic products (URPs). Those who favor the process respond that the quantities of toxic chemicals are minute, that they occur naturally (like benzene in eggs), and that some cooking methods -- frying, for example -- also generate small amounts of carcinogens. As for the URPs, they are not new creations at all, says the FDA, but simply existing chemicals that have not been detected before in the human diet. "There...
...quick cancer cure for humans. "This has all been done with mice," he stressed. "There are things that work in mice that do not work in people." Still, some of the results published last week in the journal Science were compelling. For example, mice subjected to the new treatment proved to be immune to malignancies seeded by cells from the original tumor. And the NCI team has already isolated the same kind of powerful cancer-fighting cell in humans. "It's potentially very exciting," Rosenberg concedes. He believes the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will agree and approve the treatment...
...treatment is a form of immunotherapy, an experimental technique that has been refined substantially in the past five years as an alternative to surgery, radiation or chemotherapy. Immunotherapy enhances the immune system's disease-fighting capabilities by using some of the body's own chemical agents -- the interferons, tumor-necrosis factor or interleukins, for example. Last year, in one of immunotherapy's most promising clinical trials to date, Rosenberg's team used the hormone-like substance interleukin-2 to turn certain white blood cells into cancer destroyers called lymphokine- activated killers. Reinjected into the bloodstream with more...
...treatment answers those problems and then some -- at least in mice. Rosenberg's team found potential guided-missile cells called T lymphocytes in tumor tissue removed from the mice. They minced the tumor, added IL-2, and soon a whole colony of the anticancer cells -- called tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes -- were thriving while the cancer cells were dying out. After 15 days, the researchers injected millions of TIL cells back into the mice. The cells, as if by instinct, sought out the tumors that had spread from the original cancer and attacked them. To keep the TIL cells vigorous and growing...