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scene, not as a cure-all but rather a totally new class of compounds, a natural occurring body substance which shows anti-tumor activity and may well serve as the forerunner of even more effective treatments in the future.
“Innumerable other things have happened in that short medical lifetime. We have learned how to better identify those people who are at a higher risk for cancer. Years ago we had no knowledge of cancer families and genetic predisposition. We had no estrogen or progesterone receptors to tell us how best to treat a woman with breast cancer. We had no CEA (carcion-embryonic antigen) to tell us that a colon cancer was recurring. We had no cobalt machines, electron beam therapy or Pi-Mesons. We had no C-T scan to find hidden metastases.
“We had no simple hemoccult test to search out the blood we couldn’t see with our experienced eye. We had no team concept in the treatment of cancer—the surgeon, radiation therapist and medical oncologist jointly offering their special knowledge in the best interests of the patient’s welfare and outcome. We had no opportunity to say to a woman with very early breast cancer that she may not lose her breast or that if it was necessary to do
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