Word: hodgkins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Another typical volunteer is Keith Stefan, 23, a self-employed photographer who has Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymphatic system. He is always ready to talk with other cancer victims, assuring them that he is managing to carry on despite his illness. "I know exactly what you're going through," he told a girl who called him late one evening to tell him that she too had Hodgkin's. "I know how hard it is, not only for you but for your family too. You can handle it if you want to badly enough...
...Hodgkin's Disease...
...imply that people with Hodgkin's disease are 1) infectious and 2) incurable is to make them modern-day parallels to the lepers of yesterday. Any physician well experienced with this disease knows many patients who are alive, well and free of any evidence of it several years after treatment. Furthermore, if one considers the number of people who have been closely related to Hodgkin's patients for many years but do not have the disease, it is at least as impressive as the evidence presented in your article...
...findings hint but do not prove that Hodgkin's disease may be infectious under special circumstances. Dr. Rogers is correct that treatments developed in recent years have proved highly successful in providing longterm, even permanent remissions...