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Bercovitch, who was scheduled to teach English 90md, "American Dissent," and English 170, "Puritanism in America," will take a disability leave for the spring term to receive treatment for a throat tumor, according to Lawrence Buell, Marquand professor of English and chair of the department of English and American Literature and Language...
That trial, being conducted by GTI-Novartis in Gaithersburg, Md., uses an ingenious technique to attack brain tumors. After re-engineering a retrovirus--an RNA virus that invades only cells that are in the process of dividing--the doctors outfitted it with a gene from the herpes virus and injected it into the brain. Because virtually the only cells that divide in the brain are tumor cells, the retroviruses infected them alone, inserting the herpes gene into their nuclei. As this gene expressed itself, it made the tumor cells sensitive to the herpes drug ganciclovir. When the drug was then...
...oncologist takes a few cells from Jose's tumor and places them on a microchip. Within minutes, the chip identifies five mutant genes that, like some kind of diabolical cheerleading squad, have pushed Jose's cancer to grow, grow, grow. Someday, perhaps soon, doctors will be able to fix the wayward genes themselves. Until then, they will have to rely on the next best thing: drugs developed by pharmaceutical firms that block the destructive messages generated by the errant genes. Jose's physician selects a combination of treatments that matches the tumor's genetic profile. Six months later, no trace...
...controversy dates back to 1991, when Kingsbury took a medical leave of absence for surgery on a benign brain tumor. When he wanted to return...
Brain surgery without blood? Sounds like science fiction, but research shows that an instrument called a gamma knife can safely--and bloodlessly--shrink acoustic neuromas, one of the most common forms of benign brain tumor. The "knife" delivers a onetime dose of radiation that's shaped to the exact parameters of the targeted tumor...