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“The problem with chemotherapy is that it doesn’t just wipe out the tumor, but it also wipes out the immune system, just as it would in humans,” Cooper said. “Chemotherapy kills replicating cells, and one of the facets of your body that replicates often is your immune system.”

If a cancer cell isn’t killed by chemotherapy, it is instead transformed into what is known as an immunogenic cell. Immunogenic cells release antigens that basically act as red flags that help the immune system locate and destroy the remaining cancer cells. But since chemotherapy typically kills most of a person’s T-cells, this process usually doesn’t take place and relapse inevitably occurs.

To counteract this problem, Cooper and his team reinserted the healthy T-cells into the dogs after they had received their chemotherapy treatments. Just as the team had expected, the healthy T-cells were able to hunt down the remaining cancer cells and essentially eradicated the cancer.

Cooper said that the next step is to move this process from the canine patient to the human patient.

“We have several clinical trials based on this ‘add back’ of T-cells in clients,” Cooper said. “Those trials have been reviewed by the FDA, and we have our first patients lined up to go.”

Another success of their research, according to Cooper, is the creation of a new type of animal model that could prove more effective than any other type of animal model that has come before.

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Cooper added, “The dog is a man’s best friend, and now a dog with cancer is a human with cancer’s best friend. They’re so alike and so similar, that each helps one another.”

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• The word red has found its way into many terms and phrases in the English language. When you’re re-ally angry, you’re seeing red. And lots of things can cause you to see red: going through a lot of red tape (having to endure excessive paperwork or require-ments to complete a process), or having your check-book in the red, meaning it is below balance. Taking the red eye? You’re on an overnight flight. There’s not much recourse if you’ve been caught red-handed, because you’re clearly guilty. That might cause you to become red in the face or extremely embarrassed. Has someone given you poor advice? Guidance with no value isn’t worth a red cent. Now and then, we’ve all received the red carpet treatment, when we’ve been made to feel special, and we’ve all had red-letter days, which were important, memorable or joyful. Af-ter such days, many folks like to paint the town red, meaning they go out to celebrate!• Restaurateur Bill Darden’s first restaurant wasn’t a Red Lobster, but rather The Green Frog, when he was just 19. His first Red Lobster came along in 1968, opening in Lakeland, Florida. The chain now operates close to 700 locations throughout North America, with average annual sales per restaurant of $3.9 million.

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It was English philosopher Francis Bacon who made the following sage observation: “The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”

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On March 6, 1899, the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin regis-ters Aspirin, the brand name for acetylsalicylic acid, on behalf of the German pharmaceutical company Friedrich Bayer & Co. In its primitive form, the active ingredient, salicin, was used for centuries in folk medicine.

On March 10, 1902, in the case of Edison v. American Muto-scope Company, the U.S. Court of Appeals rules that despite his claims, Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera. The court did, however, admit that Edison invented the sprocket system that moved perforated film through the movie camera.

On March 9, 1913, English author Virginia Woolf delivers the manuscript of her first novel, “The Voyage Out,” to her pub-lisher. In 1941, fearful for her own mental state and afraid of the coming world war, she filled her pockets with rocks and drowned herself.

On March 7, 1923, the New Republic publishes Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening.” The poem begins with the famous line “Whose woods these are, I think I know.” Although Frost never graduated from a university, he had collected 44 honorary degrees before he died in 1963.

On March 5, 1963, the Hula-Hoop, a hip-swiveling toy that became a huge fad across America when it was first marketed by Wham-O in 1958, is patented by the company’s co-founder, Arthur “Spud” Melin. An estimated 25 million Hula-Hoops were sold in its first four months of production alone.

On March 11, 1970, author Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of Perry Mason, dies. The crime-solving attorney Perry Mason appeared in numerous novels and became the star of a top-rated TV show starting in 1957. The show starred Raymond Burr as the titular hero and ran for nine years.

On March 8, 1986, “Mask,” starring Eric Stoltz and Cher, opens in theaters. Cher, who had launched a serious acting ca-reer with her appearance in Robert Altman’s film “Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean” in 1982, re-ceived the Best Actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in “Mask.”

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