Word: tumors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When harmful material enters the body of a guinea pig, he said, the animal secretes at least two chemical antibodies, called gamma-1 and gamma-2. The gamma-2 molecule acts rapidly to attach itself to the walls of tumor cells. and with the aid of chemicals in the blood it breaks open the cell membrane, often killing the cancer...
...British Novelist Anthony Burgess flew home from Brunei, where he had spent five years as an educational consultant to the Sultan, to undergo examination for a suspected tumor of the brain. The suspicion proved baseless, and after six weeks in London's National Hospital, Burgess was released, sound as a pound. In most men, the experience would have produced no more than a sigh of relief. In Burgess, it excited the wild flight of imagination that produced this novel...
Restored in the end to his hospital bed, Spindrift ponders, along with the reader, the ageless riddle of reality. Do Ippo and the others owe their existence to the anesthesiologist? Did he surprise Sheila, his unfaithful wife, in flagrante delicto? Was the tumor removed? Was there a tumor? Uncertain and yearning to know, he ventures out again and at once bumps into Ippo, a walking advert for JOE'S ALL-NIGHT SAUSAGES...
...Really Fantastic." Reinforcing that theory, Surgeon Burkitt reported that even in cases where drugs had apparently failed, some patients later conquered their cancers in a way that suggests the workings of a powerful immune mechanism. One boy, aged seven, had a large jaw tumor and failed to benefit substantially from surgery plus a dozen courses of drug treatment. When the doctors sent him home to his village they had little hope for him. Yet nine weeks later he reappeared with his jaw healed and new bone forming. Three years later he is still healthy...
Reflecting on the fact that some of the drugs that work so dramatically in Africa are also the best known weapons against leukemia. Dr. Joseph H. Burchenal of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute, said: "I am strongly persuaded that there is a close affinity between Burkitt's tumor and leukemia." But he was careful to note the difference in the effects of treatment. "The results here are really fantastic," he said. "There is nothing like this anywhere in the world. Long survivals, including apparent cure, after drug treatment for Burkitt's lymphoma are running...