Word: hodgkins
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Serious heart disease, however, can be prevented with the right screening and follow-up care, and the same is true for many of the other severe health problems that can emerge years after cancer treatments. In previous decades, for instance, girls with Hodgkin's lymphoma were frequently treated with radiation to the chest, putting them at increased risk of developing breast cancer as young women. Screening them at age 25 instead of 40, as usually recommended, can pick up the disease sooner and, it is hoped, give doctors the chance to remove small lesions before they grow or spread. (Radiation...
...Gruman: [Laughs] You mean my colored past? Well, when I was 20, I had a Hodgkin's [cancer of the lymph system] diagnosis. I had surgery, chemotherapy and radiation for years. Then when I was 30, I had cervical cancer. When I was 48, I was diagnosed with viral pericarditis [an inflammation of the heart tissue]. One day I was in the gym, the next day in intensive care. When I was 50, my doctor suggested that I get a colonoscopy to screen for colon cancer. So I went, and when I woke up I found out that...
...That is not to say Thompson hasn't had to overcome many personal hardships - a marriage while in high school after conceiving a child with his teenage girlfriend, a subsequent divorce, a diagnosis of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma 2 1/2 years ago and, perhaps most traumatic, the sudden death of his daughter Betsy in 2002 from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs. He is now married to a Republican political strategist and has two small children...
...Gates met in 1968 at their Seattle private school, Lakeside, where they became protonerds. They spent so much time programming a primitive computer that they could teach their peers--and teachers. Both later dropped out of college to get Microsoft going, but after Allen received a diagnosis of Hodgkin's disease, he stepped down in 1983--the same year his father died...
DIED. Barry Bingham Jr., 72, third-generation chief of a Kentucky media empire run by the liberal, philanthropic, much chronicled Bingham family, sometimes called the Kennedys of the South; of respiratory failure, after a battle with Hodgkin's disease; in Glenview, Ky. After two brothers died in freak accidents, Bingham took over the Courier-Journal and Louisville Times from his father in 1971. He set new ethics guidelines, pushed public-service journalism and led the papers to three Pulitzers before a battle among the siblings prompted patriarch Barry Bingham Sr. to sell the papers to Gannett...