Word: tumor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...especially difficult case that Shander oversaw at Englewood, 11-year-old Cristali Rodriguez came in with a rare pancreatic tumor, one of only 300 documented cases worldwide. Doctors in Philadelphia had declined to perform a Whipple procedure, a complex reconstruction of the digestive tract rarely performed on a child. Rodriguez's parents had refused a blood transfusion, and the girl's doctors felt that without it the operation was even more risky. Undeterred, Englewood surgeons did a 10-hour bloodless Whipple. There were no major complications, and a week later Cristali was eating pizza. Soon after her discharge...
...traveled to Pakistan. "She had watched a film of the hospital," says IMRAN KHAN, the cricket superstar turned politician, of the cancer center he established. "She called Annabel [Goldsmith, his mother-in-law] and said, 'I want to help.' There was a young boy who had a tumor on his face. That tumor was festering. It smelled, it really smelled. I was sitting 4 ft. away, and I could smell it. And she picked him up. She held him, completely oblivious to everything." Recalls the hospital's medical director, DR. G.M. SHAH: "The boy could not open his mouth...
...Street, where the stock of Geron Corp., a small biotech company based in Menlo Park, Calif., that helped Cech's group discover the gene, more than doubled, to 1618 a share. In fact, Geron researchers have been looking for antitelomerase compounds for several years, using indirect-screening methods. Because tumor cells--the main source of the human enzyme--produce it in vanishingly small quantities, the scientists lacked pure telomerase, which could have sped the search for drugs that might be used against...
...odds that such a compound will materialize now seem high. But experts caution that it could take years before the first telomerase inhibitors are ready to be tested on humans to determine if they'll have any serious side effects--or if they'll actually inhibit tumor growth. Such questions are perhaps one reason Geron's stock leveled off at week's end, closing at 12 1/4 a share...
...destroyed the cancer she was battling. They said, "She'll live to 100," and I believed them. But when Grandma went to have her hip examined the next day, the doctors only shook their heads. "She has a few months left," they said. "She's in tremendous pain--another tumor the size of a grapefruit. It didn't show up on the tests until...