Word: hodgkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scar on Steven Shepherd's 26-year-old belly looks like a zipper. His faded brown shirt is open, and the scar is the first thing you notice. "It's a splenectomy," he informs. "Hodgkin's disease. I spent a year in the hospital with chemotherapy and cobalt treatments. Now they say it's regressed." It is the beginning of another day in Evanston, Wyo. (pop. 4,848; elevation 6,748 ft.), and while Shepherd talks, the oil and water stains on the cement driveway of the A & A Texaco station are turned to rainbows...
...plays to graduations. But last week more than 500 parents were gathered there for a very grim purpose. School officials, acting on reports from parents alarmed by an apparently high incidence of cancers in the town, had compiled a list of eleven residents recently afflicted either with leukemia or Hodgkin's disease and asked state health authorities to investigate. Now the townspeople were assembled to hear the findings...
...news was not good. Dr. Ronald Altman, chief epidemiologist for the state's department of health, revealed that Rutherford residents had suffered 32 cases of leukemia and related cancers during the past five years. The eleven cases of Hodgkin's disease, he said, were more than would have been expected in a town with Rutherford's 20,000 population. The total number of leukemia cases (13) was not unusual, he went on, but the distribution of the cases by age range was. A town of Rutherford's size could normally expect .58 cases of leukemia...
...Kovaleski from nearby Mount Carmel, who suffers from Hodgkin's disease. "I see it differently each time, but my reaction is always...
Died. Louis Edward Sissman, 48, poet and essayist who was able, he said, to "compartmentalize" his mind and alternate between writing belles-lettres and advertising copy; after a ten-year battle with Hodgkin's disease; in Boston...