Word: tumors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less than a month, said he felt compelled to express his displeasure with the direction in which man was moving. He said that he would probably never have written the book so quickly or preached so much in it, if doctors had not diagnosed that he had a brain tumor and only one year to live. "That was in 1960," Burgess added...
...viral infection, which current medical theory holds to be a main cause of cancer, should occur, the body would not be able to reject either the virus or the tumor, he said...
...injecting patients with mixed bacterial toxins to induce responses that might alter the course of the malignancy, and without fully understanding what he was doing, succeeded. In 1893, he injected his toxin into a 16-year-old boy with inoperable cancer and was rewarded with a demonstrable success: the tumor shrank and, over a period of a few months, disappeared. He treated some 250 other patients who also improved and survived for another five to 72 years. But despite the results, Coley's work, which was far ahead of its time, generally went unrecognized...
Overkill. But it still has a long way to go. Doctors are not yet sure whether the commonly used methods, which rely primarily on nonspecific immune stimulation to produce selective tumor destruction, represent a form of immune-logical overkill. Says Klein: "It's sort of like alerting the whole damned U.S. Navy to keep one foreign destroyer from entering one harbor. It's effective, but it may be unnecessary." Furthermore, doctors cannot make immunotherapy work for all patients. They have no sure way of knowing who will respond until they begin treatment...
...Good, who combines painstaking laboratory work wiih gutsy speculations, or "probes," much in ihe manner of a medical Marshall McLuhan. On one occasion, while treating a patient whose inability to resist infection coincided with the growth of a massive thymic tumor, Good began to speculate about the link between the thymus and agammaglobulinemia, a disease caused by a deficiency or lack of the major antibodies. He?together with others in his laboratories?conducted a series of experiments in which he removed the thymus from newborn rabbits. The results of the test?all of the animals failed to develop normal immune...