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...includes most conventional doctors, say the chief danger of alternative medicine -- aside from wasting money -- is that the patients get so carried away with unconventional cures that they dismiss regular medicine entirely. "The nightmare," says University of Chicago neurologist Clifford Saper, "is seeing someone who has a spinal-cord tumor who's been going to a chiropractor for years instead of to a doctor. You want to throw your hands up and say, 'If only I'd seen him earlier I could have helped him that much more.' " Doctors also warn about the risks of unregulated medicine, which is subject...
MEDICINE Can a patient's own tumor cells be a weapon against cancer...
...experiments at the National Cancer Institute. Rosenberg, a surgeon by training, has repeatedly tried to find new ways to rally the immune systems of cancer patients to combat their own disease. Last week he revealed his most radical effort to date: vaccinating injected patients with their own genetically altered tumor cells in what Rosenberg calls an attempt "to immunize the patient against his own cancer...
...first two patients -- a 46-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman -- both have terminal-stage melanoma, a form of skin cancer. A few months ago, doctors extracted tumor cells from the patients and inserted into the cells the gene that promotes the production of an antitumor hormone called tumor necrosis ^ factor (TNF). The genetically altered cells were grown in a lab and then injected last week into the thigh of each patient. The hope is that the TNF- primed cells will boost the body's immune system into more vigorous attack against the malignancy...
Rosenberg and his team have permission from the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration to treat 15 people with TNF-gene- altered cells, including patients with advanced kidney or colon cancer. Another 15 individuals with the same diseases may receive injections of tumor cells that have been genetically altered to produce interleukin-2 -- a protein that stimulates tumor-fighting lymphocytes -- instead of TNF. All the patients have failed to respond to standard therapy...