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...utility-company employee, Coe began to have seizures, with temporary impairment of speech, about two years ago. An operation in March 1965 was successful in that it resulted in the removal of most of a brain tumor. But it also disclosed that the trouble was a malignant glioblastoma. "Though my husband got along well then with medicine," says Mrs. Coe, "the doctor told me the growth was extensive, and he probably wouldn't live more than about 18 months...
...voting Rights Act and abolition of the poll tax. Negro precincts and the largest metropolitan areas voted heavily against the Byrd candidates. Harry Byrd Sr., 79, was spared the bad news: on primary day he lay in a deep coma at his Berryville estate, suffering from a malignant brain tumor...
...piece of a melanoma (a highly malignant cancer) was transplanted from a desperately ill young woman to her mother "in the hope of gaining a little better understanding of cancer immunity, and in the hope that the mother's production of tumor antibodies might be helpful in the treatment of the cancer patient." The patient died the day after the transplant, the mother died of melanoma 15 months later...
...diocese at 's Hertogenbosch, who worked tirelessly for a more liberal church attitude, calling birth control a matter of conscience, and defending priests who renounced their vows in order to marry, all of which made him an urgent voice for reform during the ecumenical Council; of a brain tumor; in Tilburg, The Netherlands...
Bloch has conducted his research so far with isolated cells in test tubes, but he suggests that conditions in the human body may be similar. He is now conducting further research on many different types of animal and human cancers to determine exactly how tumor cells coat themselves with neutralized antibodies...