Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late-night calls to reporters once made her phone line the livest wire in Washington. But now Martha Mitchell, suffering from multiple myeloma, a bone marrow cancer, and harried, is letting her attorney do the talking. "She is desperately ill, without friends or funds," asserted Lawyer William C. Herman in New York State Supreme Court last week, where he is attempting to collect nine months of back alimony from Martha's estranged husband, former Attorney General John Mitchell. While appealing his conviction for Watergate crimes, Mitchell has not only maintained a private chauffeur, said Herman, but recently received...
Mary Flug Handlin, editor for the Center for the Study of the History of Liberty and wife of Oscar Handlin, Pforzheimer University Professor, died of cancer early yesterday in Stillman Infirmary. She was 62 years...
...cases of lung cancer, the treatments produced extensive destruction of malignant cells and noticeably improved the condition of the patients; four of them are still alive. In one cancer victim with an abdominal tumor six inches in diameter, the growth was shrunk to only 1½ inches; five months after it was removed, there was no detectable regrowth. One of the most impressive cases involved a patient with a cancerous kidney. Except for a small portion that had apparently been missed by the radio field, the entire tumor was destroyed...
LeVeen and his colleagues are understandably excited by their technique. In conjunction with other treatments like immunotherapy (TIME cover, March 19, 1973), it could provide a promising new weapon against substantial-sized tumors; it would not be effective against leukemia and other cancers involving widely dispersed malignancies. LeVeen also agrees with the authors of an accompanying editorial in JAMA, Drs. Joan M. Bull and Paul B. Chretien of the National Cancer Institute, who urge additional tests on patients-with special attention directed toward any adverse side effects-before wide-scale application of heat therapy in cancer treatment. Such trials...
...dying sister Carmen, she faced it again in another form. Both encounters are gracefully recorded in these memoirs. The longer and more compelling portion of the book is a testimony to the extraordinary courage, humor and joyful energy displayed by her sister until the very end. Depleted by cancer, Carmen decided to choose the time, place and manner of her death. "Cancer was going to kill her," Jessamyn recalls. "She planned to be asleep before that happened." Jessamyn kept watch. Until the moment the sleeping pills worked, she had doubts that the scheme would succeed. Neither sister had doubts about...