Word: tumorous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Project R," as Wander calls it, centers around a chemical agent known as TAF (tumor angiogenesis factor...
...Cancer tumors manufacture TAF, causing an animal to create blood vessels supplying the tumor with necessary nourishment. Folkman and his research team are investigating substances that interfere with...
...characteristic of boranes is their ability to attract radiation. If boranes can be combined with chemicals that are present in tumor cells, they could help to localize the effects of radiation applied to cancer patients...
...they have cancer of the bladder, a disease that strikes three times as many men as women. But if it is caught early enough-as it apparently was in Humphrey's case-the odds of beating it are better than even. Convinced that he had removed the entire tumor, a walnut-size growth at the base of the bladder, Humphrey's surgeon, Dr. Willet F. Whitmore, said confidently, "As far as we're concerned, the Senator is cured...
Died. Kermit Bloomgarden, 71, producer of such Broadway hits as The Music Man, The Diary of Anne Frank and Look Homeward, Angel; while suffering from a brain tumor; in Manhattan. Born in Brooklyn and trained as a C.P.A., Bloomgarden became a business manager for a producer, then started presenting plays on his own. His first success, in 1945, was Deep Are the Roots, a drama about racial conflict. The next year he presented Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest and, in 1949, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, which won a Pulitzer Prize. He made...