Word: tumors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issues were less clear-cut in the case of Mrs. Santa Teriaca, 51, a Cleveland housewife. Bothered by the worsening of a chronic limp, she had an operation for the removal of a small tumor on her spinal cord, and ended up paralyzed from the chest down. Her doctors claimed that the result was unfortunate but unavoidable. Mrs. Teriaca replied that she had been unaware of the risks. "The doctors," she told the court, "only told me that it would be as simple an operation as a tonsillectomy." The defendants apparently agreed that they should have told her more about...
Such revelations have been surprisingly accurate. In one case, In-111 disclosed a lung tumor six months before it became visible on X rays. In another, the scanner showed a cancer six centimeters wide. From the operating room, the pathologist studying the growth phoned Hunter to say that the radiologist had been wrong-the cancer was only three centimeters wide. Later, he corrected himself; more careful examination revealed a spread of malignant cells through the six-centimeter zone...
...Ridge Associated Universities, Biologist Raymond L. Hayes and Physician C. Lowell Edwards have given Ga-67 intravenously to 84 patients. At first it shows no selectivity between normal and tumor tissues. But after 48 hours the concentrations are enormously different in diseased and healthy areas: 10 to 1 for some blood cancers, and as high as 100 to 1 in muscle cancer. Ga-67's spectrum of cancer selectivity is probably the widest of any radioisotope...
...that controls tongue movement-to innervate facial muscles as well. The third and most difficult procedure is the autogenous nerve graft: surgeons remove a piece of nerve fiber from elsewhere in the patient's body and use it to replace the section of facial nerve cut away in tumor surgery or damaged by injury...
...intensely personal religious experience in 1946-which she speaks of only as her "baptism of the Holy Spirit"-inspired Kathryn to begin preaching regularly about the Holy Spirit. Healing came by accident, when a woman announced one night that she had been cured of a tumor during a previous Kuhlman sermon...