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In 1985 cancer killed 462,000 Americans. The American public took its first notice of Rosenberg in July 1985 when the NCI specialist announced, "The President has cancer." As a member of the team that operated on President Reagan's cancerous colon, Rosenberg explained the procedure to the public and won high marks for his cool, careful explanations. In early December Rosenberg emerged with news of an exciting approach to cancer treatment, and the switchboards at the NCI nearly melted from phone calls as dying patients around the country deluged their physicians and the NCI with demands for the treatment. But some of Rosenberg's colleagues in the cancer war were dubious about his first stage of discovery, and claimed that IL-2 didn't live up to its press notices. Rosenberg characterized his work as experimental therapy, but it received so much publicity as a medical "breakthrough" that a critical backlash followed...
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