Word: hodgkins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nitrogen Mustard, used in treatment of Hodgkin's disease, may damage the blood-making system...
...rays are still the basic, most successful treatments. Some 90% of Memorial's patients are operated on (the hospital's "fiveyear cure" rate for stomach cancer: 25%). But Memorial is also pioneering in hormones for breast and prostate cancers, radioactive iodine for thyroid cancers, nitrogen mustards for Hodgkin's disease, radioactive phosphorus for certain forms of leukemia, a urine test for early cancer detection, studies of an extract of the adrenal gland, which looks like a hopeful candidate against stomach cancer...
...felt I had been struck in the heart by a stone. Mr. Drake frowned and drummed his fingers, Mr. Cook began biting his thumbnail and leered in fury, Mr. Porter became homely and paternal, Williams gave a scheming look at her legs, the stage-struck Hodgkin took a comb out of his pocket and ran it through his waved hair. Turpin and Sawston, who were on opposite sides of the same, high, tilted desk, looked at each other fixedly. They looked as though they were trying to hypnotize each other. Taking small hard steps, her red lips pettishly drooping...
What causes Hodgkin's disease and how is it carried? One school considers it a form of cancer, with the body's own cells getting out of control. In 1944, investigators found "inclusion bodies" (possibly indicating virus infection) in affected tissues. The discovery was important: if the disease is really caused by a virus, a vaccine may eventually be developed...
...Hodgkin's Disease Research Foundation will set up clinics throughout the U.S. where patients can be cared for and studied. Its laboratories, while concentrating on Hodgkin's disease, will be double-spurred by the hope of finding some clues to a cure for the big enemy-cancer...