Word: leukemias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deaths, did I?" asks McCalip late one day. "In the past six years," he says, "there have been four or five lung- cancer deaths in Casmalia. The young woman who used to teach here with me was ! in perfect health when she came, and she died of leukemia two years later." Not until last month, after well-to-do neighborhoods in Santa Maria got a strong chemical whiff one day, did the county government finally admit the dump was a problem. People in Casmalia are sure they have the official reluctance figured: revenues from the dump this year will...
According to an old Japanese legend, anyone who folds 1,000 cranes will be granted a wish. The present project was inspired by Sadako Sasaki, a girl who survived the bombing of Hiroshima but died eight years later, at age ten, of leukemia caused by exposure to radiation. In the hospital, Sadako began folding 1,000 origami cranes. She could not finish them before she died, but her friends and classmates completed the task...
...news in Houston was the remarkable success of alpha interferon (one of the three major types of the substance) in fighting an unusual cancer known as hairy-cell leukemia (because of the hairy appearance of the malignant cells). The disease is usually treated by removing the patient's spleen, but this seems to help in only about half the cases. For the other half, there was no viable treatment until interferon was tried. Two reports presented at the conference showed that interferon can be effective in up to 90% of hairy-cell patients, greatly reducing or completely reversing all signs...
Although hairy-cell leukemia affects only 400 Americans a year, Golomb and Quesada point out that it is just one of several cancers that affect a class of white blood cells called B-cells; collectively these cancers strike 35,000 Americans a year. Says Golomb: "This may be a window into a family of disorders." Interferon has already proved useful in treating multiple myeloma, a B-cell-related cancer of the bone marrow that annually afflicts more than 8,000 Americans...
DIED. Nathan Pritikin, 69, health and fitness guru whose regimen of low- cholesterol diet and exercise attracted thousands of grateful disciples who claimed both weight loss and amelioration of heart disease, hypertension and diabetes symptoms; by his own hand while suffering from advanced leukemia; in Albany. Pritikin became a self-taught nutritionist after he was diagnosed as having heart disease at age 40. He promoted his diet plan, consisting mostly of fruits, vegetables and whole-grain breads, in $3,675 two-week programs at his longevity centers and through several books...