Word: hodgkin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the release of the most comprehensive review of Agent Orange research ever conducted, vets got some real encouragement. According to a 16- member panel of experts assembled by the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine, exposure to Agent Orange can be linked conclusively to three cancers, including Hodgkin's disease, and two other disorders. The committee also found enough evidence among the 230 studies they examined to suggest a connection with lung and prostate cancer...
Jesse Brown, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, immediately added Hodgkin's disease to the short list of maladies for which Vietnam veterans are automatically compensated. And he has promised to decide, within 60 days, whether to include lung and prostate cancers and other diseases. Because these afflictions are so common, such a move could ring up tens of millions of dollars in additional claims. "We did not pay attention to the price tag but just to the scientific evidence," says panel member Dr. Graham Colditz, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. "If anyone raised the issue and said...
...evidence of this cumbersome and vapid work, he has no talent for sculpture; he is there because the Spanish fixedly believe he is the successor to Picasso and Miro -- a nationalist illusion. The British pavilion, which in previous Biennales walked away with the show -- Frank Auerbach, Howard Hodgkin and the sculptor Tony Cragg -- contains a disappointing survey of recent work by one of the fathers of Pop art, Richard Hamilton, who split the Golden Lion, or main prize, with Tapies...
...With his Hodgkin's disease in remission, National Hockey League star Mario Lemieux rejoined his Pittsburgh Penguins team on the ice last week, just two months after discovering that he was battling the lymph cancer. The raucous standing ovation the 27-year-old star received no doubt bolstered his spirits after he'd persevered through eight weeks of radiation therapy. Lemieux scored one goal and assisted on another, proving that even when he has to hang up his skates for a while, the league's premier skater still knows how to keep his edge...
...devastating malignancy. These so-called secondary cancers are a direct result of the powerful drugs and radioactive fields used to kill cancer cells. Susan Leigh, 44, an oncology nurse from Tucson, is convinced that the breast cancer she developed in 1990 arose from the radiation treatments she received for Hodgkin's disease 20 years ago. "They are going to have to start teaching survivors what the late effects are," says Leigh. "We're going to have to be followed for the rest of our lives...