Word: tumor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...serendipitous finding ten years ago by Green made this procedure possible. While studying cultures of a mouse tumor, he found flourishing colonies of cells resembling those of the upper layer of living skin. Investigation showed that these epithelial cells grew because of the presence of fibroblasts, a type of cell common to the connective tissue that makes up the dermis. Green realized that the discovery had implications for burn patients: Cultured skin, derived from the victim, would not be rejected by the body's immune system. Another major advance came when Green discovered that a certain bacterial enzyme could...
...confusion is the state of language itself, language that has been bleached of its moral distinctions, turned neutral, value-free, "nonjudgmental." When that happens, moral discourse becomes difficult, moral distinctions impossible and moral debate incomprehensible. If abortion is simply "termination of pregnancy," the moral equivalent of, say, removing a tumor, how to account for a movement of serious people dedicated to its abolition? If homosexuality is merely a "sexual preference"-if a lover's sex is as much a matter of taste as, say, hair color (or having it butter-side up or butter-side down)-then...
...more than his or her Olympic medal: a growing body of medical evidence indicates that athletes who take steroids have experienced problems ranging from sterility to loss of libido, and the drug has been implicated in the deaths of young athletes from liver cancer and a type of kidney tumor. Steroid use has also been linked to heart disease. "Athletes who take steroids are playing with dynamite," says Robert Goldman, 29, a former wrestler and weight lifter who is now a research fellow in sports medicine at Chicago Osteopathic Medical Center and who has just published a book on steroid...
...apprehensive last May 17 as she boarded the eight-seat Hawker Siddeley jet of AMF, the sports-equipment and industrial-technology manufacturer, for a trip from Houston to Westchester County Airport in White Plains, N.Y. Two years ago, Janszen underwent surgery in Methodist Hospital to remove a malignant brain tumor, and she was returning from Houston after chemotherapy treatments. AMF Chairman W. Thomas York, who was in Houston for business meetings, was giving her a free lift on the company plane. The in-flight accommodations delighted Janszen. Said she: "Everyone was wonderful. They served us food and drinks and told...
...cancer patients, more drastic measures are often needed. According to Kathleen Foley, chief of the pain service at Sloan-Kettering, only about one-third of cancer patients suffer severe pain. With these, the tumor is the cause in 65% of patients, either because it impinges on nerves or because it releases chemicals that affect the nervous system. An additional 30% have pain resulting from the treatment (for example, chemotherapy). Cancer of the pancreas and of bones can be particularly painful because of the sensitive nerves in or near these organs. In the vast majority of cases, cancer pain...