Word: leukemias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mice. When the cancers were later removed from these mice, the doctors found that the radioactive antibodies had concentrated in the malignant tissue. The hope: to transport destructive amounts of radioactivity to human cancer tissue selectively, and without damage to normal tissue. ¶ There is no known cure for leukemia, the blood-corpuscle cancer to which children seem particularly prone, but medicine has developed several methods of controlling it for limited periods. Five doctors from Memorial Center reported a new addition to medicine's weapons against leukemia: a chemical known as 6-mercaptopurine. One hundred and seven patients...
...James Garfield Randall, 71, eight-volume biographer of Lincoln (Lincoln and the South, Lincoln the Liberal Statesman) and longtime (1920-49) professor of history at the University of Illinois who pictured the Civil War not as an "irrepressible conflict" but as the tragic error of a "blundering generation"; of leukemia; in Urbana...
...Shot of Phosphorus. After iodine, radioactive phosphorus is the isotope which has proved most useful in treatment. It seems to be as effective as any other means of combating two kinds of chronic leukemia (lymphatic and myeloid), and it is more convenient than others. It is useless against the acute leukemias of childhood...
...years ago a San Francisco shipping executive heard the bad news from his doctors: he had chronic lymphatic leukemia. X-ray treatment might have slowed down the disease enough to give the patient ten or even 20 years of useful life, but doctors have done the job more easily with an occasional injection of colorless fluid containing phosphorus...
...least of all the cautious Dr. Farber, believes that a cure for these children's cancers is in sight. Even now, one-third of all leukemia victims fail to respond to any treatment. But Dr. Farber believes that he and his colleagues are on the right track. To keep them going, the Variety Club (composed largely of theater managers and entertainers) and the Boston Braves have raised $600,000 through radio appeals and collections in theaters and ball parks; they plan to keep on until the Jimmy Fund Building is paid for, and Jimmy's companions in misfortune...