Word: hodgkins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lojko is one of ten Boston and eleven San Francisco-area rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with a new program of radiation therapy that has produced promising results in relieving both pain and stiffness from this sometimes crippling disease. Radiation therapy is one of the standard treatments for Hodgkin's disease and other cancers of the lymph nodes; in the past 25 years, it has helped raise the cure rate for Hodgkin's disease from 30% to 80%. While refining their techniques, Hodgkin's researchers noticed that irradiation also seemed to relieve arthritis in laboratory animals. Stanford University...
Every scientist has a series of questions they try to answer, and Brito's involves patients with Hodgkin's disease a cancer where these lymphocytic soldiers, are nowhere to be found. They simply disappear from the blood circulation. But no one knows why. Are they destroyed or are they hiding? Are they trapped in some part of the body where they don't belong? If they are hiding, what causes this strange behaviour and is it the reason for the occurrence of Hodgkin...
...Brito is exceptional in other ways that make her both an interesting subject of a book and a misleading example of the modern researcher. Unlike most, she is an intellectual pariah. "Her position on Hodgkin's disease was, for the five years of this book. a minority one. She simply worked on a hunch. albeit one in accord with many observations. but still just a vision. But while she has been proved correct in some ways, most scientists do not put themselves out on a limb as Dr. Brito did. Brito bravely defends her attitude. "To be frightened of making...
...doctors based their conclusions on interviews with 225 people who were stricken with Hodgkin's disease between 1973 and 1977. The 225 victims represented 86 per cent of all patients with the disease between ages 15 and 39 in Boston and in Worcester, Mass. The results from the patients were compared with the experience of 447 randomly selected people...
...Hodgkin's disease kills approximately 7 100 people each year, according to the American Cancer Society. If untreated, the disease usually causes death within five years, but it can be slowed or halted if caught in its early stages...