Word: hodgkins
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...being well, he'll start driving and a hospitality course in the New Year, and it won't be long before he's playing sport as exuberantly as he was until, at 15, he noticed a lump on his right arm that turned out to be a symptom of Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymphatic system. Treatment cured him and he was briefly healthy again, but early last year he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all), a cancer of the blood and bone marrow that kills more than half of its adolescent and young adult victims...
BORN. To OUARDA TOUIRAT, 32, the first woman to conceive naturally and give birth after a transplant of her own frozen ovarian tissue, and her husband, MALIK; a daughter, TAMARA; in Brussels. In 1997, Touirat was diagnosed with advanced Hodgkin's lymphoma. Doctors proposed the experimental technique to preserve her chances of having a child naturally. Her ovarian tissue, which holds immature eggs, was frozen in liquid nitrogen, then thawed and reimplanted after Touirat successfully completed chemotherapy and was declared cancer-free. FREED. GLORIA TREVI, 36, irreverent pop-music superstar nicknamed "Mexico's Madonna"; following her acquittal on charges...
...good about sending their children to preschool this fall. According to a study in this month's Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention journal, children who attend day care or nursery school for at least one year before kindergarten are about 36% less likely than those not in preschool to develop Hodgkin's lymphoma as young adults. The study's scientists, from the Harvard School of Public Health, Yale University and Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, suggest that early contact with other kids' germs and exposure to common childhood infections help the immune system mature, making kids less susceptible to this form...
...found nowhere else on earth, and, says palm expert John Dransfield of the Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG) at Kew in the U.K., "we are discovering new species at an astounding rate." Many, like the now-famous rosy periwinkle, a source of compounds used to treat leukemia and Hodgkin's disease, have huge medicinal potential. "It has become a cliché to describe Madagascar as a Noah's Ark," says Dransfield, "but it's true. If we lose Madagascar, we lose an irreplaceable asset." Conservationists are fighting hard to preserve what's left of Madagascar's biodiversity. Not far from...
...medical knowledge, you can't help worrying. The cough could mean just a cold, but it could also be a sign of lung cancer. A twinge might be internal bleeding. The lump is probably a lymph node--but is it bigger than it should be? Could it be Hodgkin's disease...