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...correspondent in the living room of his two-story white-brick home in an affluent northern suburb of Indianapolis. He eagerly outlined the themes of his campaign. Insisting that he felt vigorous despite treatment for blood clots last December and the removal of his appendix because of a benign tumor a month later, Quayle delighted in the belief that his message of family values was gaining currency. ``There is still a residue of the old stereotype of me that was formed in the first few weeks of the 1988 campaign, but in due course it will be erased,'' he vowed...
...point of no return for many cancer patients. A clump of malignant cells in the body has fooled some nearby blood vessels into reaching out and embracing it. Now the tiny mass can soak up all the nutrients it needs to become a solid tumor and a major, life-threatening menace. Not much can stop it from growing until its cells spread, or metastasize, throughout the body, traveling along those same blood vessels to far-distant points in the lungs, bones and brain...
Even though much more research has to be done, the Scripps findings look promising. As doctors and their patients know all too well, malignant tumors have a nasty habit of outwitting whatever treatments are aimed at them. A one- two punch that deprives the tumor of its blood supply while at the same time attacking it with more traditional weapons could prove to be a powerful strategy in the fight against cancer...
Researchers at Children's Hospital say that a purified inhibitor, obtained from the serum and urine of tumor-bearing mice, was found to stop anglogenesis...
Should plasminogen prove to be effective in clinical trials, the non-toxic protein would augment existing cancer treatments. "Most people discover they have tumors before they come into the doctor's office," Bouck said. "My highest hope has been that surgeons could remove the tumor and prevent tumors that are hidden," she said...