Word: hodgkin
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...worn-out body parts, and even organ transplants have become relatively commonplace. Machines routinely supplement the function of failing kidneys. There are new methods of detecting and treating genetic defects. Hypertension is becoming more manageable; the coronary-bypass operation has made productive citizens of invalids. Even certain cancers, notably Hodgkin's disease and leukemia, have shown remarkable remissions under treatment. Infant mortality is less than 19 per thousand, and the contemporary child can expect to live four years longer than his parents. This may be a mixed blessing, considering our bafflement about how to use those bonus years...
...heroic Grecian mode. He is a Georgia backwoodsman who can't get the hang of spitting his tobacco accurately, let alone of making his teammates respect or even like him very much. His only distinction is that he has been prematurely touched by mortality, in the form of Hodgkin's disease...
Another example of Good's intuitive flashes occured while he was working with Dr. Henry Kunkel at New York's Rockefeller University in 1950. Good observed lhat patients with different types of tumors suffered from different types of infections. Those with Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymphoid system, were particularly susceptible to TB, fungus and viral infections; those with multiple myelomas, or cancers of the bone marrow, were vulnerable to such bacterial infections as streptococcus and pneumococcus. Subsequent observation and experiments at the University of Minnesota convinced Good that there were not one but two basic immune responses...
...HODGKIN'S DISEASE is a cancer originating in the lymphatic system. Formerly, most patients with advanced Hodgkin's disease lived less than two years. Drs. Paul Carbone and Vincent DeVita of NCI have kept 70% of their patients alive for at least five years; Frei has achieved an 80% remission rate in patients with the disease. Dr. Isaac Djerassi of Mercy Catholic Medical Center in Darby, Pa., has found ways to overcome some of the problems inherent in chemotherapy, which can produce toxic reactions, by developing a technique for transfusing platelets (clotting agents) and disease-fighting white blood...
Earlier diagnosis, which enables prompt surgical treatment, is credited with reducing fatalities in cases of breast, cervical, prostatic and rectal cancers. The chemotherapeutic approach, in which drugs are administered in series or in combination, is being used with encouraging results against Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymphatic system, and other systemic cancers...