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...Harvard-affiliated doctors have taken this practice to new heights. In an attempt to learn more about brain abnormalities and violent behavior, the doctors are dissecting and analyzing the brain of a suspected mass murderer who took his own life. The doctors are specifically attempting to find a tumor that may be connected with psychotic tendencies...
...years will be how to combine interferons with other treatments." Particularly promising, says Borden, is combining several types of interferon, since one form seems to enhance the effects of another. Doctors are also excited about the possibility of using interferon together with another powerful, naturally occurring anticancer agent called tumor necrosis factor. "Interferon and TNF together add up to more than the sum of their parts," says Dr. Lloyd Old, of Sloan-Kettering, who discovered TNF 14 years ago. Interferon may work synergistically with certain cancer drugs and with radiation therapy...
...study, published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, compared the results of mastectomy with a far less radical operation called lumpectomy, in which only the breast tumor and a small amount of surrounding tissue are removed. The research involved 1,843 patients, each of whom had a tumor that measured no more than 4 cm (or about 1 1/2 in.) in diameter. The participants agreed to be assigned randomly to three different treatment groups. About one- third underwent a mastectomy, one-third had a lumpectomy, and another third received radiation treatment in addition to a lumpectomy...
...entire breast removed. In fact, the patients who fared the best were those who had a lumpectomy plus radiation. The five-year survival rate for such patients was 85%, as opposed to 76% for women in the mastectomy group. The radiation patients also had a reduced risk of breast-tumor recurrence: only 7.7% developed another tumor in the same breast, as opposed to 27.9% of those with a lumpectomy alone...
Cutone, last year's Ivy League Rookie of the Year, was diagnosed as having a bone tumor two weeks before the Crimson's first game and underwent successful bone transplant surgery a week later...