Word: tumors
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Probers suspect that former CIA Director William Casey played a dominant role in Iranscam, despite his proclaimed ignorance of the scheme. Casey, who underwent surgery for a brain tumor last December, resigned in January, and his physicians have maintained that he is unfit to testify. The lawmakers plan to send their own doctor to examine Casey and report on whether he is capable of delivering testimony. One investigator justifies this step by explaining that if Casey does not talk "we may never know" the extent of CIA involvement in the scandal...
...results, on a larger test group, confirmed the earlier findings. Rosenberg and his colleagues used the technique on 157 cancer patients with melanoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and colorectal, kidney and other cancers that were initially considered untreatable. What is more, the affected tumors were metastatic -- that is, they had spread to other sites in the body. Of the 157 patients, 20 had at least a 50% reduction in tumor size, while complete remissions were produced in nine. (Four patients died from side effects of therapy.) The second paper, by Dr. William West and a team of physicians and scientists...
...other priests who would like to dismiss his miracles because he is an atheist and by doctors who want to examine his remarkable recuperative abilities. Vic falls off a 40-foot building and suffers only cuts and bruises. He is not even aware that the has an inoperable brain tumor that has spontaneously gone into remission...
Other less heralded players have fought personal battles to get to this championship. They are perhaps epitomized by defenseman Butch Cutone. The Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 1984, a leg tumor felled the Arlington product his sophomore year...
...horrid scene: "I, apparently, was chuckling in my cot while my mother and sister lay dead on a bed in the same room." At the end of Little Wilson and Big God, on a Christmas holiday in 1959, the author is told that he has an inoperable brain tumor and a year to live...