Word: tumor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...researchers are finding out how genes cause illness, they are also working on genetic cures. A federal panel approved a new trial of an experimental gene therapy for brain cancer. Doctors take a gene from the herpes virus and insert it into tumor cells. They then zap the cells with an antiviral drug that attacks the herpes gene -- and thus the tumor. (See related story on page...
...with more and more clever approaches." He points to one brain-cancer trial that received initial approval just last week. Researchers will splice a herpes simplex gene into a mouse-leukemia virus that has been rendered harmless by genetic engineering, and insert the altered virus directly into the brain tumor. The virus, as is its nature, will promptly invade the nucleus of the tumor cells, endowing them with the herpes gene and making them susceptible to ganciclovir, an anti-herpes drug. The patient will then be given the drug, which should kill both the virus and the tumor cells...
Treatments for cancer and AIDS are also high on his list. One healer, for example, claims to have isolated a substance in urine that turns tumor cells back to normal. The new office might also look into a faddish AIDS therapy that has patients paying up to $20,000 to be hooked up to dialysis-like machines that pump ozone into the bloodstream...
...cellular phones really cause brain tumors? The safety of the ultimate yuppie accessory was called into question by the news that two prominent executives had been stricken by brain cancer (though the connection to phone use is unclear) and by a well-publicized lawsuit in which a Florida man charged that his wife's fatal brain tumor was caused by her cellular phone...
...Florida widower, tell the story of his wife's death to Larry King, Bryant Gumbel, Faith Daniels and dozens of radio talk-show hosts. Sally Atwater, the widow of late Republican political guru Lee Atwater, got half a dozen calls from reporters asking whether her husband's brain tumor was linked to his constant cellular-phone use (she could not say). "It seems like yet another technology that is out to get us," said NBC's chief White House correspondent, Andrea Mitchell, who became addicted to her cellular phone while covering the 1992 election...