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Another typical volunteer is Keith Stefan, 23, a self-employed photographer who has Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymphatic system. He is always ready to talk with other cancer victims, assuring them that he is managing to carry on despite his illness. "I know exactly what you're going through," he told a girl who called him late one evening to tell him that she too had Hodgkin's. "I know how hard it is, not only for you but for your family too. You can handle it if you want to badly enough...
...Hodgkin's Disease...
...imply that people with Hodgkin's disease are 1) infectious and 2) incurable is to make them modern-day parallels to the lepers of yesterday. Any physician well experienced with this disease knows many patients who are alive, well and free of any evidence of it several years after treatment. Furthermore, if one considers the number of people who have been closely related to Hodgkin's patients for many years but do not have the disease, it is at least as impressive as the evidence presented in your article...
...findings hint but do not prove that Hodgkin's disease may be infectious under special circumstances. Dr. Rogers is correct that treatments developed in recent years have proved highly successful in providing longterm, even permanent remissions...
Though no one is yet sure what causes Hodgkin's disease, scientists may soon be able to study this possibly infectious illness. Greenwald's office is attempting to track down friends, relatives and classmates of the Albany victims. Albany newspapers have asked readers who may have associated with Hodgkin's disease patients to get in touch with the state health department. As a result, hundreds of calls were received last week. While the disease is not curable, prompt treatment can often check its course. Meanwhile, a student at a New York medical school has written to health...