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...study, conducted between 1973 and 1980 by Dr. Umberto Veronesi and colleagues at Italy's National Cancer Institute, involved 701 women with tumors less than three-quarters of an inch in diameter. About half underwent radical mastectomies; the rest had "quadrantectomies," losing only the quarter of the breast with the tumor, plus lymph nodes in the armpit. The partial mastectomy patients received radiation therapy following the operation; since 1976 drug therapy has been given to women in both groups whose cancer had spread to the lymph nodes. The results, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed...
...while spending every spare moment in the lab. "I did absolutely zero work in other courses," he laughs. But he did enough to get accepted at Johns Hopkins Medical school where he will pursue both an MD and a Ph.D. His research will continue on viruses, this time animal tumor viruses, under the direction of Dr. Dan Nathans, 1976 Nobel Laureate. That's seven more years of school, including summers, and then...more research...
...year in scholarships. Exeter, says Admissions Director John Herney, is looking for brains plus something more. It turns down a number of applicants with high scores. "We are looking for kids who have a certain contagion to their excitement about learning." During a word association test one applicant linked tumor with friends because "they both grow on you." Herney almost shouted, "Take that...
Within one month, disease had progressed in 50% of the patients and after three months in 90%. Only a fifth were alive at the end of eight months. The findings are comparable to those when patients receive no therapy at all. Only one patient showed a shrinkage in tumor size, and that lasted just ten weeks. Even this improvement is in doubt since the patient moved in the course of the study, and his new physicians might have evaluated his condition more favorably. At the end of ten weeks of Laetrile therapy, only 3% of patients showed any weight gain...
...adherents assert that thousands suffer from less severe ecological "allergies." In many people, they say, these reactions are not immediately recognizable, masquerading instead as arthritis, alcoholism, headaches and depression. According to London's Sunday Times, Rossall in the past has been diagnosed as suffering from a pancreatic tumor, angina, coronary thrombosis, asthma, epilepsy and multiple sclerosis...