Word: tumorous
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...last week researchers had found perhaps 100 cancer genes, at least three dozen of them important in human tumors. Some, known as oncogenes, turn on cell division, whereas others, called tumor-suppressor genes, are responsible for switching the process off. In their normal form, both kinds of genes work as a team, enabling the body to perform such vital tasks as replacing dead cells or repairing defective ones. But mutations in the chemical makeup of these genes, whether inherited or acquired later in life, can disrupt these finely tuned checks and balances. A cell containing a faulty oncogene is often...
...research that led in 1985 to a major change in the way surgeons treat breast cancer. Until that time, patients almost always had the entire breast removed -- a mastectomy. But the new research showed that a less disfiguring procedure called lumpectomy -- in which only the tissue surrounding the tumor is cut out -- is just as effective when the cancer is in its early stages...
Several sub-plots come into the picture, but never follow through; we find out that Tess has an inoperable brain tumor, but that's the end of the story--it doesn't enter into the rest of the plot. Tess tears up when her sleazy son asks her to endorse a retirement complex, but we get no sense of the emotions behind this exchange...
Hruschka says he talked to another doctor, who said it might be a benign tumor and recommended he go to Beth Israel Hospital...
That night at Beth Israel, Hruschka had emergency surgery to remove the tumor. Three weeks later, he began the first of his four chemotherapy treatments, which occurred every three weeks and lasted for five days, Hruschka says...