Word: tumor
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...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 for human trials within the next two months...
...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...
...Prince's visit will also honorDana-Farber's joint-venture research project withtwo British-based institutes for childhood blooddiseases. The Harvard-affiliated cancer researchcenter also uses the Imperial Cancer ResearchFoundation, located in Great Britain, to cleansebone marrow of tumor cells...
Jones is not the only beneficiary of such research. Paris Surgeon Alain Carpentier last year used a pacemaker-trained back muscle to patch a hole left in the heart of a 35-year-old woman after removal of a tumor. The woman has fully recovered. Says Carpentier: "It's exciting to see how flexible nature...
...family that was shaken by trauma. Sheedy's parents separated when she was nine, and she spent the rest of her childhood shuttling between two households nine blocks apart in Manhattan, never knowing where she had left her sneakers. Bonham Carter's father, a merchant banker, suffered a brain tumor when she was 13, and was paralyzed when an operation to remove it went wrong. Her family rallied, and both her father and her mother, a psychotherapist, now take an amused pleasure in her success. But it was her own reaction at the time that is astonishing. Apparently feeling that...