Word: hodgkin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...faced an unexpected obstacle. His senior year, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. At the time, he says, the survival rate for those afflicted with the disease was about 20 percent...
...With Dowe died the excitement of a single mom eager to graduate from college in December. Her son turns two in May and cries for his mother. With Bonnin ended a stunning miracle: after six years of prayer and abjuring chemotherapy, she discovered three weeks ago that her non-Hodgkin's lymphoma was in remission. "After she'd come this far, it didn't seem right," says Bonnin's son Chris Tickle, 25. "But what I learned during the years she fought her illness, I'll keep with me forever...
When the royal couple returned to Jordan in mid-January, they did not expect the King to die. Contrary to speculation, Noor says the 63-year-old monarch believed he was winning his battle against non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. His physicians believed as much when they sent him home. But a week after, the King began to grow weaker. He was working on a draft of a document that would rewrite Jordanian history--a letter replacing his 51-year-old brother Hassan as heir with his son Abdullah, 37. When doctors advised him to return to the U.S., Hussein quickly...
...Lung & bronchus 90,900 2 Prostate 37,000 3 Colon & rectum 27,800 4 Pancreas 13,900 5 Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma...
Jordan's King of nearly a half-century had always been both a fatalist and an optimist. So after six months of unsuccessful treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hussein bin Talal abruptly anointed as successor a little-known son, Abdullah, who promised the failing monarch "to follow in your footsteps...