Word: tumorous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Judah Folkman, Andrus Professor of Pediatric Surgery, told a seminar of the American Cancer Society that the protein--tumor; angiogenesis factor (TAF)--is required by solid tumors to develop capillaries necessary for growth...
Folkman told members of the seminar in Clearwater, Fla, that without the TAF, the tumor becomes trapped in its waste products and is not supplied with the nutrients necessary for growth beyond the size of a pinhead...
...known as artists first and only incidentally as women. "To be put in any category not defined by one's work," states Portraitist Elaine de Kooning, "is to be falsified." Eva [Hesse, the brilliantly gifted German-born sculptor who died two years ago of a brain tumor at the age of 34, is a case in point: her work belonged, and contributed on exactly level terms, to the kind of antiformalist direction in American sculpture that Robert Morris' felt pieces and Carl Andre's floor sculpture also represented...
...money will be used for research on molecular biology, cellular radiation biology, tumor immunology, and the genetic effect of radiation. Many of these study areas were already under research, although, as Hellman added, "We would have had to scrap a number of these projects without this support...
...deal, really," said pretty, big-eyed Broadway and TV Star Sandy Duncan. What she was tossing off so coolly was the blindness of one of her eyes, resulting from a benign tumor operated on last November. "I've been nearsighted most of my life," said Tony Award Winner Duncan. "My father says I can see more than I can understand anyway. What would affect me more-being in the business that I'm in-would have been if the motor area had been damaged. You see, the appearance of the eye is more important, actually, than the vision...