Word: tumorous
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Physicians studying cancer, for example, have related the role of specific genes to tumor development in some cancers. Doctors can also use human genetic markers to test mothers for the possibility of giving birth to a seriously diseased child...
...longer? He saw his first hit song, Swanee, sell more than a million copies, wrote for Broadway and symphony orchestras and performed Rhapsody in Blue to the applause of Rachmaninoff and Stokowski, all before his 30th birthday. He was planning further classical compositions when he died of a brain tumor at the age of 38 in 1937. Would Gershwin's later music have made its way into the standard American repertory along with the works of Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber? Or would he have been considered an overreacher whose notes never quite shook off the reverberations...
Lymphoma is the seventh most common cause of death from cancer in the United States, according to medical publications. Non-Hodgkins lymphoma, the subject of the Harvard study, is the most common tumor of humans between the ages of 20 and 40, and there are more than 25,000 new cases of it every year, Nadler said...
...treatment the doctors used, the patient is first given chemotherapy, in order to lessen the number of the tumor cells. Next, the doctors removed one-fifth of the patient's bone marrow through needles...
...laboratory, the doctors treated the marrow with B-1, an antibody that kills the tumor cells. The doctors then froze the marrow at -196 degrees Celsius, enabling it to live for an indefinite amount of time...