Word: hodgkins
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...care for him full time, he had a circle of close friends that included a couple of nurses, one of them a bereavement counselor; an ethicist who specialized in medical issues; several doctors; and a former patient, Steve Kalafer, who years earlier had been treated by Frimmer for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, now in remission...
...years now, "smart" drugs have been the hottest trend in cancer treatment. They are designed to zero in on the proteins that nurture tumor cells. In the past year alone, the FDA has approved three such drugs (for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, breast cancer and leukemia). And more are in the pipeline, because scientists are becoming increasingly skilled at designing drugs that target specific, critical molecular processes that tumor cells need to survive. Herceptin, for example, takes advantage of the fact that most breast-cancer cells overproduce a certain growth-factor protein; the drug preferentially seeks out tumor cells...
ETHYLENE OXIDE Used to sterilize hospital instruments, it can increase the risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and leukemia. Patients aren't in danger, since the volatile chemical leaves no trace. It's people who work with the stuff who are at risk
...White House and his inglorious ones, including the time he was falsely accused of snorting cocaine at Studio 54 and insulting the wife of the Egyptian ambassador by admiring her pyramids. But it is mostly a book about being struck by lightning three times, first by non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at age 40, then by skin cancer six years later, and by prostate cancer four years after that. Don Imus listened more than he talked for a full hour, giving a window into the mystery of how larger-than-life figures like Jordan and now Rudy Giuliani confront mortality...
...long series about the disease on the Today show. In what must be a television first, she will broadcast footage of her own intestine, taken during a recent colon exam. (She's fine.) Couric has also joined longtime friend and cancer activist Lilly Tartikoff (whose husband Brandon died of Hodgkin's disease in 1997) and Hollywood fund raiser Lisa Paulsen (who specializes in connecting celebrities to worthy causes; see following story) to finance a public-education campaign and urge more aggressive research into colon cancer...