Word: hodgkin
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...least five and ten years for a heartening number of patients. In cancer cases, such remissions are considered tantamount to cure. Last week at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan an internation al gathering of radiologists heard that this improvement is now being accomplished for many victims of Hodgkin's disease and related cancers. The higher cure rate, they heard, can be extended not only to greater numbers of Hodgkin's patients, but to others suffering from a variety of cancers...
CHOPIN: CONCERTO NO. 1 IN E MINOR (Seraphim). Taped from a 1948 broadcast, this is a performance by Dinu Lipatti, the fabled Rumanian pianist who died of Hodgkin's disease at 33. The concerto gives no hint of the sweep and virility Lipatti was capable of, but reveals his lyrical side, warm and magically sustained. The sound is a bit dim, and one seems to be listening by moonlight...
...their wide use, particularly in rheumatic disorders, have long since been convicted of causing or exacerbating peptic ulcers, of giving users a fattened "moon" face, and growing mustaches on women. Colonel Moser emphasized two severe unpleasant side effects that may go undetected. Given to victims of leukemia or Hodgkin's disease, he said, these hormones predispose the patients to fungus infections, and they leach the calcium out of the bones of the bedridden elderly...
...sizzling redhead who delighted in challenging men to rodeo and log-riding events, served ably as her state's first woman Representative, specializing in federal land projects, but lost to Incumbent Republican Len Jordan in a 1962 bid for a Senate seat; of Hodgkin's disease; in Baltimore...
...room still contained most of Student 2's belongings," says Dr. W. K. George in College Health, "and it is probable that the bed linens had not been changed." The researchers are not convinced that Hodgkin's?a baffling disease marked by periodic fevers and lassitude?can be transmitted in any such obvious fashion. But the facts are reminiscent of an earlier observation: in 1960, in a large group of Hodgkin's victims in Germany, every patient was found to have been previously infected with an ornithosis virus like that of psittacosis (parrot fever). In the Galveston case, the researchers...