With Dr. Burchenal and others, Dr. Tan held clinical trials of the drug 6-mercaptopurine, which suppresses the body's immune response and has since been used successfully in treating leukemias and other cancers, in some cases leading to dramatic remissions.
Spiegel's research seemed to support the assertions of Bernie Siegel, a surgeon at Yale, who in his best-selling "Love, Medicine, and Miracles" (1986) claimed that emotional turmoil was a cause of breast cancer and that dramatic remissions could occur if patients simply gave up their emotional repression, without chemotherapy or radiation.
The mice he has injected with cancer cells and then with the virus R-7 start having dramatic remissions.
On the one hand, when used alone, Iressa has induced dramatic remissions in a small number of patients who have been failed by other drugs.
The team's excitement at the potential implications of Cliff's discovery seems to be justified when he begins to rerun his experiments and is able to demonstrate a dramatic 60% remission rate.
These results suggest that CB-T cells induced tumor apoptosis directly, resulting in dramatic tumor remission.
We found dramatic tumor remission following transfer of CB mononuclear cells into NOD/SCID mice with human cervical tumors with a high infiltration of CD3+ T cells in tumors.
He stood up before the crowd and ran triumphantly through the data: " 'Our patients were, therefore,' I said, savoring the dramatic conclusion, 'in complete remission.' " What happened?
Although the previous steroid treatment received by the patient could also have contributed to MN remission, the dramatic improvement of the nephropathy observed in the months after gastric surgery without any other concomitant immunosuppressive treatment strongly suggests a causal relationship between both diseases.
Specifically, they showed how androgen blockade caused dramatic and significant clinical remissions of metastatic prostate cancer.
