Word: tumor
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...Continent was a better place than the prudish U.S. to carry on multiple sexual adventures. By 1960 he was established at Sutton Place, his estate some 23 miles from London. He never returned to America, not even when his twelve- year-old son Timothy was dying from a brain tumor in a New York hospital...
...finger. Elliot may apostrophize in soppy cliches about his infatuation ("What passion today with Lee! She was like a volcano!"), but he is canny enough to woo Lee with love poems by E.E. Cummings, the thinking man's Kahlil Gibran. Mickey's belief that he has a brain tumor may lead him on quests for ultimate answers, but to him Catholicism is all Wonder bread and moving-eye portraits of Jesus. The prospect of reincarnation is just as spooky. "Great," he sulks. "That means I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again...
AIDS is not a tumor that can be cut out of society with a surgical knife. It is an illness that involves everyone. One when all of us act responsibly and help the people who are already affected can we protect those who don't have the virus from contracting it, and those who already have it from the hopelessness and discrimination that are currently associated with the illness. Jonathan Mermin...
...report met with a mixture of optimism and caution in the medical community. "A 50% tumor regression is very good," observed Dr. Kurt Stenzel of the Rogosin Institute at New York Hospital, who is also working with IL-2. "But you still want more," he said. "You want it to go away and never come back." Doctors, including Rosenberg, expressed concern about the treatment's side effects. For most of the patients in the NCI experiment, the treatment caused serious fluid retention, with up to 20 lbs. of water accumulating in the lungs, liver, kidneys and elsewhere in the body...
...just one of a number of lymphokines and related natural substances showing promise in the immunological treatment of cancer. Interferons, tumor necrosis factor, interleukin-1 and a substance called colony-stimulating factor all play a role in the normal functioning of the immune system and may ultimately find a place in the treatment of cancer. It has been only within the past five years that genetic-engineering technology has made large quantities of these substances available to researchers. Many physicians believe that IL-2, which has also been genetically engineered, will eventually be used together with some of these other...