Word: tumor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within one month, disease had progressed in 50% of the patients and after three months in 90%. Only a fifth were alive at the end of eight months. The findings are comparable to those when patients receive no therapy at all. Only one patient showed a shrinkage in tumor size, and that lasted just ten weeks. Even this improvement is in doubt since the patient moved in the course of the study, and his new physicians might have evaluated his condition more favorably. At the end of ten weeks of Laetrile therapy, only 3% of patients showed any weight gain...
...adherents assert that thousands suffer from less severe ecological "allergies." In many people, they say, these reactions are not immediately recognizable, masquerading instead as arthritis, alcoholism, headaches and depression. According to London's Sunday Times, Rossall in the past has been diagnosed as suffering from a pancreatic tumor, angina, coronary thrombosis, asthma, epilepsy and multiple sclerosis...
Doctors say the tumor is now inoperable and they expect Glicklich to survive only nine months...
Norman L. Sadowsky, clinical instructor in Radiology, said yesterday. "The overall five-year cure rate for breast cancer is only an 18-per-cent chance that the patient will survive five years after treatment. If the tumor is detected early, however, usually through mammography, an X-ray of the breast, the five-year cure rate is about 90 per cent...
...newer technique, cyrosurgery, cures a simple skin cancer by freezing the tumor and allowing it to fall off easily...