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Former Sen Paul E. Tsongas was reported in stable condition on Dec 14, 1992 at a Boston hospital where he is being treated for an infection stemming fron recent chemotherapy he received

Last week, Mr. [Paul E. Tsongas] confirmed that he was facing a new fight. A growth in his abdomen turned out to be lymphoma; the cell type had changed from small cell to large cell, a not-unusual turn of events in the disease. The news was good and bad, he said at a press conference. Bad because the cancer had returned, apparently in a more aggressive cell type

Confirming on Nov 30, 1992 that he has renewed cancer, former Sen Paul Tsongas conceded that he had mishandled the issue of medical disclosure during his 1992 Democratic presidential bid

Confirming that he is facing a new battle with cancer, former Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas conceded yesterday that his presidential campaign mishandled questions on his health, and he called on President-elect Bill Clinton to set up a commission to determine what medical information candidates must disclose. Although some reporters knew that Tsongas suffered a recurrence of cancer in 1987, less than a year after he had undergone a bone marrow transplant, his campaign for the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination should have made the point clear, he said yesterday. Tsongas, who was elected to the Senate in 1978 and retired in 1984 after completing his term, seemed fit as he said the biopsy showed lymphoma, a type of cancer he has been battling since 1983. He held his fingers up to describe the new growth as about two inches in diameter

Frank Ramos, a spokesman for the Jets, said last night that [Dennis Byrd] had suffered a broken neck. The fifth cervical vertebra in Byrd's neck was fractured, Ramos said. Byrd is paralyzed from the waist down and has no use of his legs and partial use of his arms. The spinal team decided against operating on Byrd last night and immobilized his neck and head in what is known as a halo vest. The aim of immobilization is to prevent further damage to the spinal cord, preventing what might be a temporary paralysis from turning into a permanent one. The extent of injury to the spinal cord can vary from a bruise to a complete severance. A bruise may lead to paralysis that is only temporary and is relieved as the swelling and bleeding goes down. In contrast, a completely severed cord disrupts the impulses that are normally sent to and from the brain to control motor function, thus creating a permanent paralysis

The vaccine, which takes three months to make for each patient, is available only at Stanford. It is a form of immunotherapy that can be used only among people who have developed a B-cell lymphoma. The vaccine is not intended to prevent the cancer from developing in the first place, the way polio and measles vaccines are used to protect against those infections. The head of the Stanford team, Dr. Ronald Levy, said that the number of vaccine recipients had been increased to 17, and that the the vaccine is being given to people with more extensive lymphoma than those in the original study. In the latest effort, the Stanford team made a vaccine for each individual from the outer coating of the cancerous B-cells. To make the vaccine, the researchers snipped a piece of the lymphoma, grew the cells in test tubes and then separated part of the surface of the B-cells from the other cellular components

Preliminary results of a biopsy show that the tissue that was removed from former Sen Paul Tsongas's abdomen on Nov 19, 1992 is cancerous. Tsongas, an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency in 1992, has been battling a form of potentially lethal cancer known as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

[Paul E. Tsongas], 51, has been battling a type of cancer known as non- Hodgkin's lymphoma, a slow-growing but potentially lethal cancer of the lymph system, since 1983. Tsongas made the battle an issue in the campaign, frequently talking about his triumph over the disease. But doctors who said that he remained disease-free after a bone marrow transplant in 1986 later conceded that they treated him a year later for a recurrence of lymphoma. The suspicious area, presumably an enlarged lymph node, first showed up on a gallium scan on Aug. 3, Tsongas' doctors said earlier this week in a statement to the press. A CT scan in August showed no abnormalities. Scores of lymph nodes are scattered throughout the body

Former Sen Paul Tsongas underwent abdominal surgery at a Boston hospital the week of Nov 16, 1992 to determine whether his cancer has recurred, spokeswomen for Tsongas and his doctors said

The authors said theirs was the first systematic study of second opinions on whether the X-ray procedure is necessary. About a million coronary angiograms will be done in the United States this year at a cost of about $5,000 each. By outlining the contour of the arteries and defining the degree of blockage in them, coronary angiograms help determine whether patients will benefit from additional procedures like angioplasty and coronary bypass surgery. Nevertheless, [Thomas Graboys] said his team believed that about half of the coronary angiograms performed in the United States every year were not needed. He said he hoped the new findings would 'chip away' at the soaring number of angiograms, which he described as 'the funnel into' other procedures and heart surgery