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...doctors, whose pioneering work was conducted over the last two years at the Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital, will announce today in Copenhagen that they have discovered a process, using a protein, to enhance the body's natural ability to slow and reverse tumor growth...
...body's lymphocytes, or disease-fighting white blood cells, present in the area of a cancer. Using a wellknown protein substance, the doctors said they were able to artificially stimulate the growth of lymphocytes and then inject the cells back into the blood stream to fight the tumor...
After testing the process on mice, the doctors completed experiments with three lung cancer patients. In two cases, the lung cancer was reduced by 25 percent, and in one case, the new treatment completely defeated the tumor. None of the patients experienced any side effects, according to the doctors...
...have measured reduction in tumor size in some patients," Dr. Richard L. Kradin, an instructor in pathology at the Medical School and a developer of the treatment, said in an interview yesterday. "We are encouraged, but it is much to early to say if those results will translate into improved and prolonged life for these patients...
...said that her grant--which escalates from $230,000 this year to $550,000 in 1992--will "give me the peace of mind to concentrate fully on my research." Sager will use the award for her study of tumor cells. Her research focuses on identifying genes that prevent the growth of carcinogenic tumors...