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Helena Nicholaysen, a 39-year-old Brookline resident and wife of a Harvard graduate student, sued Drake for not diagnosing her breast cancer until it had passed the point at which it could be effectively treated, spreading throughout her body to her lymph nodes...
...hoopla over these trials, it may be that AZT is not the cure-all Angell suggests. Recent studies show that even though HIV may be decreased in the blood, where it is measured as an indication of efficacy of treatment, it may still be harbored in higher concentrations in lymph nodes, where it is equally if not more dangerous to the body's immune system. Already, drug-resistant strains have appeared. A recent study from the National Cancer Institute even shows that AZT causes cancer in the offspring of pregnant mice treated with...
...past two years. There is still no cure for AIDS, but doctors have watched with growing excitement as the new therapies forced the level of HIV in the blood of some of their most advanced AIDS patients below their ability to detect it. HIV still lurks in these patients' lymph nodes, nervous system and other parts of the body. But some scientists believe that if the virus is caught early enough in the cycle of infection, it may some day be eradicated from the body. Why not hit the virus immediately after the first suspected exposure, thus wiping...
Some of the men have been treated for more than a year. None of them show any trace of HIV in any of their blood. Ho has not forgotten, however, that zero does not always equal zero. He and Markowitz are looking for pockets of virus in the lymph tissue, the semen and the spinal fluid...
...matter of days, forcing the patient to start the long treatment process all over again. But at least one of Ho's patients has agreed to stop taking his drugs in another year or two--after his doctors assure him that tests show no evidence of HIV in his lymph, semen, spinal fluid or elsewhere in his body. When he does, we will know, probably within a few weeks, whether the virus has returned or whether it is gone for good...