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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Pointer: The Evolution of Cancer Chemotherapy
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Date: Thu, 23-May-85 01:11:41 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 23 01:11:41 1985
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I would recommend this as required reading before the next scheduled round
of flaming about Cancer treatments.

The Evolution of Cancer Chemotherapy
by Bruce A. Chadner (National Cancer Institute)
in Hospital Practice, April 15, 1985, p.  115.

Excerpt:
	Although many common cancers are still unresponsive to drugs, about a
dozen tumors that were uniformly fatal before the availability of chemotherapy
are now curable with drugs in at least a significant fraction of cases. In
fact many of these tumors ARE cured in the majority of cases:  Uterine
Choriocarcinoma, acute lymphocytic leukemia, Hodgkin's Disease, diffuse
histiocytic lymphoma, childhood Sarcomas, and testicular carcinoma.  Other
tumors [list follows] are highly responsive to drugs and can be cured in
10-30% of cases.  Additionally, more than a dozen other tumors that cannot
now be considered curable with existing chemotherapy are now partially 
responsive to drugs [list follows].


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				Craig Werner
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