Word: leukemias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Building," was opened at Children's Hospital in Boston last week, and the first patients trooped in for examinations and checkups. All were boys & girls for whom, until about five years ago, medical science could offer little or no comfort. They were victims of generalized cancers such as leukemia (in the blood stream) or the spreading type of Hodgkin's disease (in the lymph nodes). Now there is at least good reason for hoping that their lives can be made both brighter and longer...
...effective for a while and then its benefit wears off. So the doctors switch to another. Later they may switch back again. This way, the life-prolonging properties of all the drugs seem to be cumulative. One little girl has lived 34 months after the onset of acute leukemia. A boy has been kept going for 35 months; despite a bad relapse last fall, he now goes to school and does figure skating. Under older methods of treatment, both would have been dead within a year...
...sooner had the speech been broadcast than plans were changed again. Evita Perón, reportedly suffering from leukemia, was taken to the hospital for treatment and possibly to undergo surgery for a condition variously rumored in Buenos Aires to be an ulceration or a tumor. Perón announced that he would cancel all public appearances to be at his wife's bedside. Peronista Party branches in the capital also suspended public meetings...
None of the leukemia patients improved for more than a little while: they could not be linked with their partners indefinitely. But in some tests, two blood streams were pooled for as long as 26 hours. Among possible future uses...
...first volunteer ever to receive leukemia blood, a lifer in Sing Sing (later paroled) exchanged 18 pints in a series of transfusions with an eight-year-old girl (TIME, June 13, 1949), had no ill effects...