Word: hodgkins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glowing, ebullient artifice of England's Howard Hodgkin...
...European painting once more comes as a relief, but before attention gets wholly stylized as fashion, it is worth remembering that England is part of Europe and that some English painters have more to offer than other, more loudly promoted figures of the day. One of them is Howard Hodgkin, whose current New York exhibition opened at the Knoedler gallery last week...
...Stanford Oncology Day Care Clinic in Palo Alto, a computer program called ONCOCIN watches over 30 patients suffering from Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. It studies their test results, then proposes a complex treatment program called a protocol, which includes lab tests, X-ray studies and subtle changes in chemotherapy. Says ONCOCIN's chief programmer, Carli Scott: "We're not taking decisions away from the doctors, but helping with their calculations...
Using a high-energy X-ray beam, researchers at Stanford administered a total of 2,000 rads of radiation (less than half the dosage for Hodgkin's disease) to the lymph nodes of the neck, chest, abdomen, thymus gland and spleen. Patients were treated five days a week for five weeks. Within a month, all the patients started to improve; six months after the irradiation, disagreeable symptoms such as morning stiffness, pain and swelling within the joints were all significantly reduced...
...gaps between treatments. Harvard Radiation Therapist James A. Belli, 50, says patients' response depends on how far their disease has advanced. "If the joints have not been structurally altered," says he, "the pain is almost completely eliminated." Side effects were transient and similar to those experienced by Hodgkin's patients: fatigue, sore throat and occasional diarrhea...