Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Darkly handsome with brown hair and twinkling eyes, he sings folk songs, plays the guitar, performs card tricks and is fascinated by the Old West. But Teddy is no ordinary youngster. His world consists largely of a small (8% ft. by 10 ft.), near-sterile chamber at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, Md., where he has lived in isolation for the past 31/2 years...
...months. Doctors do not know the ailment's causes; genetic factors, radiation, viruses and such chemicals as benzines have all been implicated. But whenever anyone survives, it is usually because his bone marrow suddenly-and mysteriously-begins working again. Teddy, who is the son of a prominent cancer specialist, Dr. Vincent DeVita Jr., director of the division of cancer treatment at NCI, has shown little improvement. His marrow remains almost as inactive today as it was on Sept. 15, 1972, when he first entered his cubicle...
Doctors' Strategy. Though aplastic anemia is not a form of cancer, doctors at NCI were particularly interested in Teddy's case for what it might teach them about treating patients with leukemia and other types of cancer who develop aplastic anemia because of their anticancer therapy. The strategy of Teddy's doctors was to give him transfusions of red blood cells and platelets to keep him alive, plus hormones and other drugs to stimulate bone-marrow activity (it is impractical to inject patients regularly with normal white cells both because white cells ordinarily live only a short...
...research in the U.K. indicates that more than 80 per cent of cancer is of environmental origin and therefore, theoretically, is preventable...The total cost of occupational hazards--in terms of lost wages, medical expenses, insurance claims, productions delays, lost time of co-workers and equipment damage--was estimated by the National Safety Council at $15 billion during 1974--approximately one per cent of the GNP. This figure, moreover, is likely to be a gross understatement of even the direct costs to the GNP of both occupational injuries and illness...
...This week, the FDA banned Red Dye #2, saying the red coloring agent is suspected of having cancer-causing qualities. Coincidentally, it was reported this week that Ronald Reagan revealed he was undergoing treatment for cancer of the hair...