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AIDS is not a tumor that can be cut out of society with a surgical knife. It is an illness that involves everyone. One when all of us act responsibly and help the people who are already affected can we protect those who don't have the virus from contracting it, and those who already have it from the hopelessness and discrimination that are currently associated with the illness. Jonathan Mermin...
...report met with a mixture of optimism and caution in the medical community. "A 50% tumor regression is very good," observed Dr. Kurt Stenzel of the Rogosin Institute at New York Hospital, who is also working with IL-2. "But you still want more," he said. "You want it to go away and never come back." Doctors, including Rosenberg, expressed concern about the treatment's side effects. For most of the patients in the NCI experiment, the treatment caused serious fluid retention, with up to 20 lbs. of water accumulating in the lungs, liver, kidneys and elsewhere in the body...
...just one of a number of lymphokines and related natural substances showing promise in the immunological treatment of cancer. Interferons, tumor necrosis factor, interleukin-1 and a substance called colony-stimulating factor all play a role in the normal functioning of the immune system and may ultimately find a place in the treatment of cancer. It has been only within the past five years that genetic-engineering technology has made large quantities of these substances available to researchers. Many physicians believe that IL-2, which has also been genetically engineered, will eventually be used together with some of these other...
...There are times when the tumor doesn't respond to the drug, but that's only 5 percent of the time," he said...
Kradin said future research will center on keeping the artificially grown lymphocytes alive in the body for longer periods of time by injecting Interleukin 2 directly into a tumor in addition to cultivating a sample outside the body