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...these survived because of "Krebiozen or natural causes"; there was some evidence in some cases that the cancers shrank. The Ivy team's conclusions : 1) Krebiozen had "palliative potency," as distinct from a curative effect, in 68% of patients with different types of cancer; 2) it has "oncolytic" (tumor-dissolving) qualities; 3) it deserves further testing...
...treatment so far devised for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (a form of leukemia that affects older adults) prolongs the patient's life, said Marquette University's Dr. Anthony V. Pisciotta, but it is possible to prolong useful life by transfusions, X ray and drug treatments which reduce unsightly tumor masses and control anemia. Two effective drugs: T.E.M. and a new one named chlorambucil...
...When John S. Keefe, 27, was on the operating table at the Somerville (Mass.) Hospital last May for an emergency appendectomy, surgeons found his appendix all right, but there was a tumor in his right kidney, so they removed the kidney. Only afterward did they learn that Keefe had never had a left kidney; despite artificial-kidney aid and a wistfully hopeful transplant, he died. Now his widow, who gave birth to their son after her husband's death, is suing Dr. John A. Fraser and Dr. G. Stanley Miles...
...life means that the question of when to stop fighting will arise to plague him every time he undertakes the care of an incurable cancer patient ... Where can anyone, no matter how wise, draw the line?" There is always the chance that "spontaneous remission," a rare inexplicable halt to tumor growth, may restore the cancer patient to health. Moreover, says Cameron, the possibility always exists of a timely cure for the patient's case of cancer. "The humane course is to hold on to such a hope, slender as it is, and help the patient to live...
...with four snips of a pair of surgical scissors. The two-inch lump was placed in a pneumatic tube, and 45 seconds later it had traveled 2,000 feet to the laboratory. There before another camera, a pathologist examined it under a microscope, ticking off the tumor's characteristics in a matter-of-fact tone. At this point the tension was fever high. Was the tumor cancerous? The pathologist finally said, hesitantly at first, then with conviction: "It's benign. Yes, it's benign...